Tony Pierce is selling links
from his blog on eBay and he actually has bids!
(links via BoingBoing)

Doh! Why didn’t I think of that!

Well, I certainly don’t have the market share of Tony’s blog, but on March
6th my valuation was at $403.06 :-)

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SideBit’s Project
Locate IP will try to figure out where an IP is physically located.
It worked fairly well in my tests.

Ms. Simone, we will certainly miss you. And yes, you indeed, moved us all.

“Legendary jazz and blues singer Nina Simone has died at the age of 70 at her home in southern France.”

More news below…

• Jazz-Soul Singer Nina Simone Dies in France - MSNBC
• Nina Simone dies at 70 - Reuters
• Nina Simone Tributes - BBC
• Nina Simone Dies - Rolling Stone
• Jazz Soul Veteran Nina Simone Dies - Launch
• Nina Simone Dies - Fredericksburg
• Jazz Legend Nina Simone Dies At Age 70 - MTV
• Nina Simone, 70, Soulful Diva and Voice of Civil Rights, Dies - New York Times

Read and listen to more of Nina Simone’s inspiring
body of work

Interesting article in eWeek about IT business
analyst:

“…an IT business analyst acts as a liaison between non-IT
employees who have a business problem to solve and the IT department, which
is charged with finding the solution.”

Of course this is a self-serving comment from me, but I certainly agree that
this is a key position in the enterprise.

(Thanks Ted for sending me the link [where’s your blog ;-])

In a follow-up to my post about the Evolution of interfaces I found this article in ExtremeTech (via BoingBoing) about a vertical keyboard that helps prevent Repetitive Stress Injuries (RSI):

“… the vertical placement of the keyboard allows the user to type while keeping the forearms in a neutral position (with the thumbs up). With a standard flat keyboard, in order to type the hands are rotated so that the palms are parallel with the floor (this is called a “pronated” position). In the pronated position, the bones in the forearm twist with the wrist and scissor. This scissoring of the bones causes extra pressure to be forced upon the Carpal Tunnel.”

The concept makes sense, but it appears to require more physical space compared to convention KBs and doesn’t necessarily seem to be a very portable input device.

Looks like Blogger is gearing up to release a new version called Dano.

There’s not much info right now other than a short FAQ, but more info should be available shortly (according to the site).

Heh, I also realized that I have a few months worth of old blog posts at blogger. Hmm, it might be worth importing into b2.

Ahh, looks like a great day for a spring mountain bike ride! I went yesterday, but
today it seems like the trails are just screaming for me to come back!

I think it’s safe to assume that Brad Choate really-really likes his TiVo. However, he has made some interesting points about TiVo’s future uses:

“I also expect that we’ll be using the TV for video e-mail and home-to-home video conferencing. That’s a killer application waiting to happen. Something that would drive a market to broadband faster than Superman puts on his tights.”

Some good reads about the current state of web-based interfaces, keyboarding and where they all started…

• Future: Is there life after the browser?
• Who Needs a Mouse?
• Bruce Damer’s Personal Histories of the Desktop User Interface

(via Doc and Don)