Study Hard, Take Copious Notes, and DO NOT Steal the Professor's Laptop
Today's lesson from academia comes from UC Berkeley's Professor Jasper Rine (today's third-burstiest BlogPulse personality). When someone walked out of class with his laptop, he offered a lecture about consequences, which was picked up (and transcripted) at Flashman's Blast Radius web site (BlogPulse's No. 2 link for the day) and at BoingBoing.
Fallout from the Adobe-Macromedia marriage is hitting the blogosphere, and blogger John Gruber ranks as today's burstiest person because of the "translation" he offers of Adobe's press-release marketingspeak at his Daring Fireball blog (today's top link).
Another big-tech company taking heat is Microsoft and, at least according to media reports, its last-minute withdrawal of support for a gay rights bill in Washington because a conservative minister threated a boycott. Reaction ranges from an Ameriblog rant to opposite-coast news of Gov. M Jodi Rell's signature on a bill allowing civil unions for gays in Connecticut.
More stuff from Google and Apple
Google now offers the ability to do search histories (today's No. 2 top phrase) and a peek inside Google Labs, while other developers are specualting the future of Apple's OS X and Spotlight functionality. Also, early reviews are trickling in of The Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy.
BLOGPULSE TREND GRAPH OF THE DAY: Battle lines are being drawn in Washington D.C. over the issue of "activism".
Posted by Sue MacDonald at April 22, 2005 11:43 AM
