Recently I started using Democracy player again to watch video blogs/podcasts, its interface is nicer than iTunes’ and as I do not have a video iPod I don’t want to put the videos on my iPod anyway. One nice feature that Democracy player has is that it contains a BitTorrent client. So if you haveContinue reading “TV Torrent Feeds”
Monthly Archives: October 2006
And Another Entrant Enters
Denis Krukovsky sent me a link to yet another tag board: tagBoard. At its first look it looks a lot a group blog, but let’s be honest tag-based forums are not that different from a group blog other than that eventually the group of “bloggers” can grow into the thousands. It’s all a matter ofContinue reading “And Another Entrant Enters”
The Beauty of Plagiarism Scanners
For my current part-time job I’m at the moment investigating plagiarism scanners. Students submit their papers and reports and before being handed to the teacher this software checks what the student turned in with previously submitted papers but also other sources such as the internet. To get started I thought I’d just copy a pieceContinue reading “The Beauty of Plagiarism Scanners”
Grandmother Died
For about the last ten years my mother’s mother (my grandmother) has had Alzheimer’s. Over the years it has become worse and worse. The past month she also ate less and less. Two and a half weeks ago she collapsed in the bathroom and soon thereafter she was brought to a care home. My grandfatherContinue reading “Grandmother Died”
Google Purchases Youtube for $1.6 billion
Probably everybody already heard about it already, but I’ll post it again: Google purchases Youtube for $1.6 billion. Youtube is the immensely popular video site that since february last year has grown spectacularly. I remember that I tried it out probably soon after it launched. I was looking for a flickr for video. Youtube wasContinue reading “Google Purchases Youtube for $1.6 billion”
The State of the Tag Board
It has been over a year ago since I first posted about discussion boards that use tags for message categorization instead of the traditional category/board structure. Since then a number of such boards have been built, some of which have died. But recently they seem to be a small revival. At the moment there areContinue reading “The State of the Tag Board”
Studio 60 on the Sunset Strip
A couple of weeks back Manuzhai recommended a new drama series on American television called Studio 60 on the Sunset Strip. It’s produced and no doubt partly written by Aaron Sorkin. Aaron Sorkin is the guy that wrote my favourite American drama series The West Wing. And I can tell you off the bat, ifContinue reading “Studio 60 on the Sunset Strip”
