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I generally like Penenberg’s stuff, but the premise of his newest piece just really threw me. His latest column on Wired News profiles Mary Hodder, someone who I met at Berkeley, actually in one of my classes at the j-school last year. She runs her own blog and is an Ÿber-connected mega-geek with all the blogosphere’s head honchos. Ok, cool. So ok, she doesn’t print things (neither do I, unless I have to — like Chinatown bus tickets). And I…

So, HungryPod is still fairly unknown as of the time of the printing of my NYT article. So I’m going to do a little experiment on the effects of an NYT article on things like Google and Feedster hits. As of now, a little after 9 pm [Pacific], Dec. 1, HungryPod gets three hits on Google and zero hits on Feedster. Let’s see what happens in the next 48 hrs.

French scientists have announced a beginning to an HIV vaccine. Here’s a really cool Mac program that allows you to watch French-language TV via Internet. And another one. And there’s a little bruhaha brewing with National Geographic labelling the Persian Gulf as “Persian Gulf (Arabian Gulf)”, despite the fact that both in Arabic and Farsi it’s called the “Fars Gulf” (Fars being the province where the Farsi language originated, which when transferred into Greek eventually became Pers, hence Persia and…

Ed: Thanks again to Simon (via Denise) for the story tip! December 2, 2004 Using IPod Savvy to Mine a Niche By CYRUS FARIVAR THE signature white earbuds of the iPod seem to be sprouting everywhere. So inevitably, perhaps, a service industry is close behind. For those who lack the time or the know-how to transfer their record collections to their iPods, an entrepreneur has created a service that will do the trick. The service, HungryPod (hungrypod.com), converts CD’s to…

In his first state visit to Canada since his presidency, George W. Bush is refusing to speak to the House of Commons. Reportedly worried about being heckled by backbenchers in the House of Commons, Mr. Bush decided not to address Parliament. He will instead make the main speech of his visit in Halifax, a side trip intended to thank the city for taking in stranded passengers on Sept. 11, 2001. White House press secretary Scott McClellan shrugged off suggestions that…

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So just before I had planned to go to bed, I finalized the list of songs that will be on the NYC/Journalism themed CD that I’m planning on giving out for free to some people in the j-school as a holiday gift. Thanks to all of you who gave input. They Might Be Giants – New York city Mates of State – Everyone Needs An Editor Le Tigre – My My Metrocard Indigo Swing – Hot in Harlem Camron –…

Don’t you think? You get four days — and then a few weeks later you get a much bigger holiday (particularly if you are a college student). We had a full house, with my nuclear (nuke-lee-er) family, my two cousins and my aunt, my Iraqi friend/classmate Sarmad, and two of my aunts friends from California and Massachusetts. Our dinner ended up being a slight deviation from a traditional dinner (we had originally planned to do a turducken, but that was…

I didn’t have class Tuesday or Wednesday, and we get Thursday – Sunday off, so it works out well. My parents came back down to NYC on Monday night, and stayed overnight at some hotel in the Village. We met up on Tuesday morning, and while my Dad had a meeting, Mom and I walked from the Village down to Ground Zero. Then we all met up at Penn Station and got on the 2 pm train to Hartford, which…