Several news reports suggest Time Warner plans to resurrect its once high-flying Netscape division by turning it into a social networking hub.

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Media tracker Paid Content.org says the Netscape name is soon to be attached to a social networking Web site, in which news stories and other items can be freely traded.

In order to do this, over the last few weeks Netscape owner Time Warner has fired some of its Netscape-focused employees and plans to install a new director, Jason Calacanis, according to the ValleyWag Web site. Time Warner owns Weblogs, which Calacanis runs.

Both reports claim the moves are a new effort to resurrect the once-mighty Netscape brand name.

Netscape Reportedly Trying for a Comeback

This is a great little AppleScript application that will allow you to play the foremost video open in Quicktime, at fullscreen. This allows you to have one of the best features of Quicktime Pro, free. Please do not copy the script without permission.

Go Go Quicktime 1.2.5 – Mac OS X – VersionTracker

A friend described a situation where this software might prove useful.

Apple's iPhoto is a convenient application to use to organize and edit your digital photos, but it restricts you to having to keep all of your photos in a single, monolithic library. When your photo collection begins to grow, having all of your photos in one library can become unwieldy. iPhoto Library Manager alleviates this problem by allowing you to keep multiple iPhoto libraries in different places on your computer (or even on an external drive or networked volume) and switch back and forth between them. It also provides at-a-glance information on each of your libraries, allows you to copy photos directly from one library to another, merges entire libraries together into one, and syncs photos from multiple libraries with your photo capable iPod.

iPhoto Library Manager 3.2 – Mac OS X – VersionTracker

Obviously, you want your aggregator to present you with the more important stuff first. As an aggregator developer I’ve been thinking about this problem for a long time—and so have NetNewsWire users, and I have a list of ideas and feature requests that is quite long and full of good stuff.

But what would be a first good step, one simple thing that would help right away, that we could do in 2.1?

Sorting subscriptions by attention.

Sorting by Attention

Yojimbo-Your effortless, reliable information organizer for Mac OS X
Yojimbo makes keeping all the small (or even large) bits of information that pour in every day organized and accessible. It’s so simple, there is no learning curve. Yojimbo’s mechanism for collecting, storing and finding information is so natural and effortless, it will change your life—without changing the way you work.

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The last five-star piece, from two weeks ago, was about the Cowboy Junkies.
They covered Sweet Jane on their excellent The Trinity
Sessions album, and
Lou Reed was quoted as saying that their
version
was definitive. He’s wrong; his own take on this 1974 live set is at
another level entirely.
So is much of the record.

ongoing · 5✭♫: Rock n Roll Animal

If we can put a man on the moon, why can't we detect when someone is lying?

Just as the space program seemed to be just the thing for combating communism during the Cold War, lie detection looks like just what we need in the fight against terrorism. The popular press, including Wired magazine, has been pretty optimistic that a high-tech replacement for the archaic and mistrusted polygraph machine is coming soon.

Last weekend, Stanford Law School hosted a workshop called "Reading Minds: Lie Detection, Neuroscience, Law and Society," where attendees took a closer look at the technology -- a look that suggests we're still light years away.

The Lie Behind Lie Detectors | Jennifer Granick

Man vs. machine stories are an old standby in journalism.

Think back to John Henry racing a steam drill and forward to Garry Kasparov trying to outmaneuver IBM's Deep Blue in 1997 to the Onion tweaking the genre with its accountant battles Excel story.

But the latest twist on the meme takes it to the meta-level by raising the question: in the future, will you find your man vs. machine story relying on a human-edited source or from an algorithm?

Man vs. Machine in Newsreader War

New blog to watch.

A look back at the stories that clicked this very first week at Pan and Scan:

Pan and Scan | The DVD and Digital Video Blog

identity is my story about who I am, reputation is other's story about you and accreditation is a story validated by a third party.

Ross Mayfield's Weblog: PC Forum: Identity, Reputation and Accreditation