Deeje says (in discussing various UI treatments in Apple’s current lineup) “Fonts serve no purpose other than to distinguish one set of characters from another.” Err, sorry bud, I’m not following you here. Of course font faces differ from one…

Nice move by Chris Law of Tribe.net to start WSFinder, a wiki of all known open APIs. (via Brad Feld) Hope to see consumer health search represented there at some point in the future.

A quick note that I will be attending John Battelle/O’Riley’s Web 2.0 Conference October 5-7th here in SF (I guess that means I should note that I’ve also relo’ed to SF from SJ). Please drop me an email or a…

The last session was a debate about the “Technorati 100”, how it’s a caste system, good old boys network, broken in numerous ways (latency, reliability), etc. The most salient point from a (semantic) Web 2.0 perspective came from Danah Boyd…

Conference: BlogHer 2005Location: Santa Clara, CA – TechmartSession: Fund, Build, SellDate: July 30, 2005Time: 130PM PT Moderators: Mary Hodder, Denise Howell, and Patricia Nakache Mary: Started a company recently. Am getting angel funding. Blogging has helped me quite a bit;…

Conference: BlogHer 2005 Location: Santa Clara, CA – TechmartSession: Advanced Tools Date: July 30, 2005Time: 11:15AM Moderators: George Oates, Alexandra Samuel, Marnie Webb Alexandra… does introductions… solicits favorite web sites and topics from the audience… Marnie: I’ve had 18 gallons…

I suppose this is a LazyWeb request for info… Does anyone (especially the good folks at FeedBurner and Pheedo…) have a definitive guide to how the various RSS Services report user/subscriber counts via their user-agent string? With some agents, it’s…

Michael Parekh — who I feel fortunate to say occasionally comments here on buzzhit! — has a very thoughtful post on how Amazon could open up reviews as a true Web 2.0 company. (via Susan) Michael, right on. This is…

Just a quick reminder that I’ll be at the BlogHer conference this Saturday, July 30th, in Santa Clara, where I’ll be live blogging and drinking on Yahoo!’s dime (unfortunately, in that order). I’d also be remiss not to note and…

Just a quick tip of the hat to Marc Canter, who, despite running ragged with the GoingOn launch (and subsequent response), gave me some useful information on the subject of open source CMS solutions (yes, you guessed it, Drupal). Drupal…