dcinput daily for Sun 22nd April, 2006
Kyle MacDonald started out just over a year ago with one red paperclip and set himself the challenge of exchanging it for a house, an island or a house on an island. The series of trades he has made so far makes for very interesting reading. What’s also really interesting is that in each case it seems that both parties get something out of the deal. Is there an ebay for trading stuff? That would be pretty cool though not sure how you would make money out of it. Maybe advertising but then advertising is so 1990 these days and I can’t see it really fitting in with the ethos of a site dedicated to swapping. In french bartering stuff is called Troc. What a great word.
If you’ve ever wanted to run Windows, OSX and Linux on a single machine, now you can with Parralels. What is great with Parralels is that as it’s VMware you can have all three running at one. It has to run on the new Intel macs. I wonder what performance is like? At $40 its pretty resonable too.
Marc E. Babej and Tim Pollak in Forbes: “Like other professional arbiters of taste, movie reviewers just don’t matter quite as much as they used to. Once upon a time, they were the point of origin for popular opinion. In an age of ratings Web sites and consumer-generated content, they are just one voice of many. Maybe a particularly authoritative voice, but no longer the popes they used to be”.
I wrote a few days back about how great it was that both Imperial College and UCL were suporting RSS. I’ve been reading the feeds for a few days now and though they are great what I really need is to be able to subscribe to certain departments as I am mainly interested in computer science and material science. I’ve sent an email to UCL Computer Science Department requesting they offer their news section as an RSS feed. Lets see what happens.