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OneNote 2007 will ALSO allow blogging — yeah!!
Says Chris Pratley:
Over on the Word blog Joe Friend has broken the news about the new blogging support we’ve added to Word 2007. I’m happy to say that OneNote 2007 is also going to benefit, as a feature I have long wanted will now come to OneNote 2007 - blogging support directly from OneNote.
…right-click on a selection or page in OneNote, choose “Blog This”, and whatever you did that to will be sent over to Word2007 ready for you to categorize, edit, and publish. This includes embedded pictures.
…This is awesome for me and many of you whom I know use OneNote to write your blog entries because it gives you a way to gather up info, keep drafts, etc. By going through Word’s new blog feature we get a whole lot of stuff for free such as the specialized blogging UI, the clean HTML, the support for many providers, etc.
And I am extremely happy, too!!
Australia to allow CD ripping, too
File under ‘Common Sense prevails at last’.
In another Pyrrhic victory for fair use rights, Australia’s government is set to legalize CD ripping. The revision to the country’s copyright law, like proposed changes being mulled in the UK, will legalize activities that are already fairly widespread, including “format shifting” of music you legally own from CDs to digital audio players. While blessing common practices, the new law cracks down on file sharing and piracy, allowing police to issue on-the-spot fines to anyone caught in the act of piracy. The Australian law may also apply to ebooks, which could require companies like Adobe and Microsoft to allow protected ebooks to be printed or saved in other formats for use on non-supported devices.
[Via Techdirt]
Fiat introduces line of branded cellphones
Says Engadget: “In yet another example of an automobile manufacturer leveraging the brand to release a distinctly non-car product (see: BMW, Ferrari, Lamborghini), Fiat has announced that it will begin selling a line of cellphones conspicuously emblazoned with the company’s logo. Suggesting that this lineup values fashion over function, no specs are immediately available for any of the individual models, although we do know that all will feature cameras, MP3 playback, Bluetooth, and the usual suite of Internet functions.”
Pomona starts project for downtown wi-fi
From Wireless Networking News: “One square mile of Wi-Fi. The press release fails to mention whether this is a free or for-fee network, however.” Anyone from Adelaide City Council reading this?
A better way to podcast
From Wired News: “MyPodder simplifies subscribing to podcasts and downloading them to your portable music player — and highlights a little-noticed problem of media control that promises to get more acute with time.”
Nokia tablet 770 upgrade announced
Says their press release: “A new version of the Nokia 770 Internet Tablet will include a Google Inc. program that enables users to talk to each other and exchange instant messages over the Internet”. Now, if Nokia need any more bloggers to blog about this, I’m very happy to receive one and talk about it from an Aussie blogger’s perspective…
UK project to deliver rural net
A British satellite known as Hylas will launch in 2008 to deliver broadband internet to “digitally impoverished” parts of Europe. I’d like Telstra to stop pushing back its promised date to refurbish my local exchange so that I can go broadband, and I’m just in the local hills!
Teasing is not always a ‘fun’ thing
Says the latest issue of the JSSP — the Journal of Personality & Social Psychology:
As a result, teasers and targets systematically differ in their perceptions of teasing: Although it is often seen as innocent and playful by the teaser, it tends to be construed as considerably more malicious by the target.
You think you are joking, be careful of what the recipient might be feeling (but not showing).
GreatNews versus NewsGator Inbox
Jack Vinson, my favourite Knowledge Management expert, delves into these two aggregators and still finds my favourite (GreatNews) his favourite too. Randy Morin (his name, not his emotional state) ran a survey on his RSS blog about which aggregator his readers use. Top 2:
| Reader | % Favorite |
| GreatNews | 86% |
| Bloglines | 39% |
Drexel University Prof Predicts iPods with Monster-Sized Memory Capacities
Says Podcasting News: “Imagine an iPod that could play for 100 millennia without repeating a single song. Science fiction? Not exactly.”
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Hi Lee,
Regarding the new laws you touch upon above relating to CD Ripping, you may like to check out this article in the SMH. Seems like were getting rid of a stupid law, and getting something even more stupid.
Am I really supposed to be expected to uphold a law that says I can tape a TV program, but erase it as soon as I’ve watched it just once? Am I a pirate if I tape a TV program for a friend? Apparently so. I too thought at first this was a good thing, but as usual with politicians we need to dig a little deeper.
But then again, perhaps these choices will be taken out of my hands if we’re expected to purchase appliances that will enforce these laws. Not Likely!
All the while the government has not made a stand on malware distributed by the likes of Sony. This is very poor form on behalf of the government, and at least one step backwards.