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Cleaning out the library. Taken back by a tome. To. That time about ten years ago - those thrilling days of yesteryear – when the Web was new, that’s the time well captured in Burn Rate by Michael Wolff. Aptly cover the 24 weeks or so when 'content was king.' Like many others [including me], Wolff could not resist the opportunity to be a part of a medium in its infant days. His delivery is generally well paced, often witty. It is old news now of course, and says nothing of Google or AOL since its merger with Time. The time capsule effect is for the better... What is your business model? When Netscape met advertising. The conundrum of the CPM [Cost per Thousand] trade press advertising model. And the larger more targeted more economical online version. Can software tell you what music you may like better than a skilled critic? In those days the folks with the money had not been on the Internet anymore than they have used Del.icio.us these days. Would the Internet level magazines...

Just before TechEd this summer, Clemens Vasters walked TheServerSide.NET through a brief overview of aspects of Windows Communication Foundation (WCF). read more  |  digg story

BBC_ The fight to keep Pluto a planet continues as a fierce backlash begins against the decision by a number of astronomers. Them gravitational do-gooders are on the descent. Good to know Pluto wont go down without a fight. Planet X forever! read more  |  digg story

The world of software somewhat resembles a pendulum. Styles of development swing in and out of favor. Sometimes that swinging is very slow -- so that it is practically imperceptible. Developers with considerable experience may not read more  |  digg story

Gordon Thomas strikes! This time with a tome that can be read in a commute ... Gordon walks us through Bergman's tale of the time of the haunting of the Howlin WOlf, or as in the native tongue, D' Wolfen Biscuit Hour. A true view into this work by Bergmann - one of those death-haunted artists. read more  |  digg story

Iowa Physicist James A. Van Allen died. He gained global attention, discovered the bands around the earth known as the Van Allen Belts.Put more than 20 instruments in the first US satellite, Explorer. Heard the signal coming back from space. Found intense radiation that surrounds earth. Uncovered fact that Northern Lights are electrons. read more  |  digg story

Wisconsin was wonderful, as usual. It had been very hot but it subsided a bit when we got to Racine. My kids went frolicking in Lake Michigan and I went with them but it was a bit too cold for me. They loved having those little waves to jump into. We went to DeMark's bar and had meatball bombers and played shuffleboard. They just celebrated their 100th anniversary and gave us T-shirts for free. The back was a cowboy hat and the name "Rocky" inside it for my infamous cousin Rocky DeMark the gambler and owner of the bar who always wore a red cowboy hat (he was country before country was cool). I learned that it actually became a bar in the 1930s because my grandfather ran it as a grocery store until then. My dad and his siblings lived upstairs, all nine of them. The gig at the barn was very cool. People picnicking outside on the surreal green lawn. The barn had hay bales and people could bring in chairs and drinks. It was low-key but had a functional stage, lights and soun...