Technology Review launches weblog.

The folks at MIT Technology Review (to which I subscribe) have started a weblog, including posts from folks like Simson Garfinkel, who I've been reading for a long time (if you've never owned Simson's PGP book from O'Reilly, where have you been?)   In one of the first posts, Simson notes my recent switch to Mac OS X, writing: "The Mac is offering a really interesting niche to the technological elite."  I actually just installed X11 on my Mac this weekend.  For fun.

My only polite request to the Technology Review folks would be to add an RSS feed and permalinks to the individual posts, but having tangled with content management systems too many times, I'm not going to get too preachy on how easy that might be, because maybe it isn't.

[Chad Dickerson]

Technology Review is one of the few print sources I both subscribe to and read regularly. A weblog from them should be well worth following. Let's hope the RSS feed follows soon.

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Everyone seems to be getting their shorts in a knot over the recent Perseus study on weblogs. Among comments I've seen in my aggregator are those from:

MarketingWonk
Many to Many
Mathemagenic
The Register (Andrew Orlowski in one of his usual blogs are stupid rants; what is his problem?)
Scripting News

So, where's the news here?

This is a perfect application of Sturgeon's Law - "90% of everything is crud." I suppose it sells papers and marketing studies to focus on failure, but the important message is that the failure has to occur if you want to see the successes. The more experiments you can run and the easier it is to run an experiment, the more likely you are to see successful results.

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