"You are not superior just because you see the world in an odious light." [Quotes of the Day]

Roland Tanglao writes in a comment to Workbench, "Too bad UserLand doesn't seem to have the money to hire one developer for each platform (Frontier, Manila and Radio) and the right number of support people, because if they did there's no way MovableType or anybody else could keep up with them."

After Google bought Pyra and Moveable Type's developers secured venture financing, UserLand Software is the last chance for an outside company to buy their way into overnight credibility in weblog publishing.

Lately, I've been expecting to fire up Scripting News and learn that Microsoft, Adobe, or Apple purchased the company as part of an aggressive push to get into the space. Microsoft certainly has at least one employee who knows what UserLand has to offer. [Workbench]

Russian swimmer Dmitri Komornikov has set a new world record in the men's 200 meters breaststroke race at the Mare Nostrum meet in Barcelona, Spain.

Komornikov finished the race in 2:9.52, 0.45 second faster than the old mark set by Japan's Kosuke Kitajima in October 2002.

Organizers said it was the first world record set in the Sant Andreu pool in Barcelona. The Spanish City hosts the world swimming championships next month, but the event will be held at a specially constructed venue at the Palau Sant Jordi. [a href="http://www.voanews.com">VOA Sports 14 Jun 2003, 20:36 UTC

The market is growing for software that finds Internet users' locations. [New York Times: Technology]

"The people blamed for incentivizing companies to repurpose, build mindshare and utilize change agents have taken aim at their own lingo," says The New York Times [free reg req'd]. It says Deloitte Consulting has developed a free program, Bullfighter, to identify jargon in documents..... It's "a future-proof asset that seamlessly empowers your mission critical enterprise communications," as the site, wittily, says.



[onlineblog.com]

Around the UK, small communities are banding together find a way to be part of the broadband revolution. [BBC News | Technology | UK Edition]

Botany 500, a Philadelphia-based DJ, rents iPods full of custom music mixes to local restaurants, stores, and salons to play through their sound systems.

Armed with a small fleet of iPods, Porter's embarking on a one-of-a-kind business venture: filling the little mp3 players with a specially created musical catalog and renting them out to area businesses. "Instead of going in with my vinyl and DJing for four hours, I can DJ for them for the whole month." As far as he knows, he's the first to come up with this particular business model. (...) "He makes it easier for us," says Adriatica bar manager Albert Gotto, who is glad not to have to change CDs anymore. Now finding the right mood is painless. "We can kick it up a bit after dinner. It's a very convenient service.

[Boing Boing]

Barbara Cassani, the businesswoman who built the low cost airline Go, is to be named as [London Olympic bid] bidding committee chairwoman. [Guardian Unlimited]