Archive for the ‘Link Love’ Category

I admit, I’m obsessed with briefcases and bags. An obsession only rivaled by office stationary… Anyway, look at these beauties…

I’m liking popurls. Cool aggregation and triangulation site. Feeds from Digg, Slashdot, Google, and flickr. Link love to Steve for the pointer…

• Dilbert on marketing biathletes
• Bruce Sterling’s state of the world address SXSW ’06 – worth a read

• Naked Answers from Werner Vogels – refreshingly blunt says Nicolas Carr… I can see both sides of this one. I do think Scoble and Shel deserve a huge amount of credit for creating the book and evangelizing blogging. Sometimes important conversations get lost in the way and tone with which questions are asked. The response on Naked Conversations was appropriate.
• And while visiting Rough Type, Nicolas has this to say on the legal risks inherent in blogging. Shel doesn’t think so but I do believe Mr. Carr makes some valid points here as it relates to corporate blogging. Buried in the comments are some good links including one from Scoble himself. The point here is that these are what Nick says they are – risks. Risks are what we take whenever we communicate. Any communicator/blogger with a modicum of intelligence will assess the risk and make a call before spouting forth.
• “To me, asking why you should use blogs is like asking why you should answer the phone.” Dave
• Guy on Apple at 30

You’ve probably seen those Outback TV ads which suggests Australians are more advanced because they are a day ahead… well, not these guys who decided to steal critters from the local zoo…

“The original plan was to steal a koala – that’s what they were going to use to swap [for] the drugs,” Mr Kemp said.

“[But] apparently [the koala] scratched the shit out of them.”

“The blokes have quite a lot of scratches and lacerations caused by the koala.”

The thieves then decided to take a crocodile instead.

“I don’t know what makes someone go, ‘Oh we tried to steal a koala and that didn’t work so lets go and steal a croc.’ ”

Police believe the crocodile was taken in the early hours of Saturday morning but Mr Kemp remembers seeing it on Sunday morning.

He thinks it must have been taken on Monday morning when another drama occurred at the zoo.

“One of the wombats got bitten by a snake. No one can officially remember seeing [the female] crocodile on Monday.”

Some stories are just too good…