Techdirt reports that Tent Reznor of Nine Inch Nails demonstrates creativity in the way he distributes his music. After releasing the last band album as free download, he’s offering to download for free an EP containing 5 tracks in MP3 DRM-Free format. Techdirt analyzes this tactic as a way to make the concert more valuable. […]

Joel Falconer posted a small review on Scribefire. It’s the Blog Editor that I mostly use for a few month now. I’m impressed by the speed of evolution of the software. Many goodies have been added in a few months:

Technorati tags
Ability to edit previous post
Localization: My version for instance is localized in […]

There is something annoying about Windows Error Reporting: The minidump created after a crash is removed once we close the WER crash notification window. Greggm explains in his blog how to avoid this:

basically move to the %tmp% directory
find the .dmp file recently created and
change it’s attribute to read-only.

Gregg explains how to do this […]

A funny cartoon from NGenius:

Its NGenius! » Blog Archive » The reason I ask the Question via kwout

MSNBC published a slideshow that shows how some celebrities are aging:
We asked Dr. Tony Youn, a Michigan-based board-certified plastic surgeon, to weigh in on what work, if any, celebrities may have had done. (Youn hasn’t treated any of those featured.)

Pursuit of youth isn’t always pretty - Buying Time?- msnbc.com via kwout

I stumble upon ReadtheWords.com service this week. And it’s really a cool service to create podcast as summarized below:

Read The Words via kwout

I tested the service submitting a ReadWriteWeb blog post via an URL. The result is quite good. Once created the podcast can be downloaded, embedded in a web page or listened directly from […]

I just reproduced an extract below, but the full earth picture is available at Incredimazing. This picture shows:

City lights
Natural gas flares
Wildfires
Fishing fleet lights

This picture is based on:

Nasa’s Visible Earth map, 2001: http://visibleearth.nasa.gov/
Lights data source: Defense Meteorological Satellite Program, 1994-1995: http://www.ngdc.noaa.gov/dmsp/maps.html

Earth at Night | Incredimazing via kwout

Technorati Tags: Photo, Earth, Night, Nasa

I came across Cat and Girl cartoons via Get Rich Slowly and I found the cartoon below meaningful. New cartoons appear every Tuesday, Thursday and Friday.
Cat and Girl Identificateurs Technorati : cartoon, comics, blog, Fun, Life

Google released a few days ago Google site, which is basically a service designed to create wiki applications for organizations: companies, schools, etc. Google Site is integrated in Google Apps. And when you setup Site, a domain name is required: either an existing one or a new one. Web worker daily suggests that Google Site […]

It seems to be the trend of this new year: Some successful bloggers released copyright on the content published on their blog. 2 examples are:

Leo from Zen Habits: Open Source Blogging: Feel Free to Steal My Content | Zen Habits

Open Source Blogging: Feel Free to Steal My Content | Zen Habits via kwout

Trent from […]