] MetaFilter is a community of users that find and discuss
] things on the web. The topics run the gamut, and tend to
] run intelligent and civil. If it's your first time here,
] hang out, and get a feel for the place.

Hmm. Obviously, there are strong similarities between MetaFilter and MemeStreams. Does a MemeStreams veteran have insight on the differences between the two?

Metafilter | Community Weblog

] Senate Intelligence Committee Republicans proposed
] removing the nation's largest intelligence gathering
] operations from the CIA and the Pentagon and putting them
] directly under a new national intelligence director.

(1) I think there's a danger in not having some competition between intelligence sources. After all, our legal system depends on the assumption that it's useful to have some builtin institutional adversity (in that case, between prosecutors and defenders) to discover the trush.

(2) If we are going to centralize intelligence, I might feel more comfortable having the director answer to the Congress, not to a President focused on his reelection.

Yahoo! News - Front Page

] TypeKey helps ensure that people who comment on a site
] have a verified identity, keeping conversations on track
] and helping to prevent abusive or offensive content
] (comment spam) from being posted.

Moveable Type's solution to comment spam was to build their own version of Microsoft Passport.

1. One wonders why they didn't just use Microsoft Passport.

2. I predict that because most net users have the IQ of a rock they won't understand that this is exactly the same as Microsoft Passport. Furthermore, they will think its a "great idea" and wonder why no one did it before. They won't be at all concerned about the privacy of their data because its not the architecture of the system that is important but who made it that matters.

3. TypeKey currently doesn't share information about how to interoperate with their system. They hint that people will have to pay them money in order to interoperate. Depending on the costs associated with that they may or may not expand this little service outside of the world of their own software. They are unlikely to get this right.

4. It will be interesting to see how their system actually works. If they developed a good enough protocol an open source typekey system would enable people to run their own identity servers that are compatible with moveable type. Its easy to mis-design a system like this so that it doesn't really work well for such a purpose.

5. There is a remote possibility that if the protocol is right, the money is right, and MT's perception in the user community is right that this could become the way that everyone shares authentication information on the internet. Its unlikely, and it won't happen in way that MT likes (they'll loose control). But its possible.

TypeKey

] Asked why she felt she was marked down by the judges,
] Khorkina said: "You better ask them. I think
] it's because I'm from Russia, not from
] America!"

MSNBC - Khorkina says %u2018judges robbed me%u2019

] McCain, sitting next to Bush, says that when "fringe
] veterans groups" attacked him at a Bush campaign
] function, Bush stood by and didn't say a word. McCain
] says a group of senators wrote Bush a letter that said:
] "Apologize. You should be ashamed."

Yahoo! News - Kerry Urges Bush to End Vietnam Attacks

This is interesting, but only work in IE (which makes me unhappy).

] Dude, Check This Out! is an entirely new application for
] finding, storing, and retrieving all the great stuff that
] you find on the Web. The Dude is the easiest way to share
] that stuff with your friends and other contacts, and
] it%u2019s also a great way to meet people who think like
] you.

Dude, Check This Out!

] Ensuring a large GOP turnout might be more important than
] winning swing voters, a strategist says. Kerry's focus
] remains the undecided.

Bush Aims to Solidify His Base

] Palestinians, backed by the Arab League, accused the
] United States on Sunday of destroying the Middle East
] peace process after Washington signaled it could accept
] some growth of Israeli settlements.

Yahoo! News - Arabs Say U.S. Destroys Hope Over Jewish Settlements

] You start by creating a workspace and creating notes in
] the workspace. You can save your workspace at any time
] and return to them from the same computer or any other
] computer. You can also share your notes with others by
] providing the workspace name (or url) to a friend.

Webnote - an online tool for taking notes

] According to an article in EcommerceTimes, Microsoft is
] trying to migrate Office from a product to an online
] service with a focus on automating collaborative work.
] Quote: 'Making collaboration faster, easier and more
] efficient will be the next revolution in worker
] productivity, and we want to be in the forefront,' said
] Peter Rinearson, vice president for new business
] development in Microsoft's information worker group

Slashdot | Microsoft Renovates Office Suite as a Web Service