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What He Knows for Sure (The New Yorker)
A profile of Tavis Smiley, who “hates blowouts”, and his cautions on Obama.
(tags: 2008 obama)

R. Stevens Steers Diesel Sweeties Back to Its Roots (Wired)
R. makes the analogy between webcomics and organic farming. Of course mass market news is the national supermarket chain! Can’t believe I didn’t make that [...]

I was about to delete an email from Bob Cramblitt on my old blog, until I actually read it and realized it was relevant to at least some of my readers:
Hi Tim:
Thought you’d like to know that Seth Godin, Joel Spolsky, Jason Fried and others are coming to Boston for the Business of Software 2008 [...]

I posted a quick link to an article about Microsoft’s new BrowseRank search technology a few days ago. Here’s why the paper is informative, why I think BrowseRank is an interesting technology for improving search, and why I think it’s doomed as a general-purpose basis for building relevance data for the web.
Informative: This paper should [...]