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Scoop: The worlds first wireless wifi train
What’s widely regarded as the worlds first wifi service on a train will debut in february on the Linx train between Copenhagen, Denmark and Gothenburg, Sweden.
Uses antennas on the roof of the train for the connection and wifi radios internally in the train.
The downstream is provided by satellite when available (100 kbit to 1mbit in testing), the upstream is done through several bundled gsm channels. The system is developed by Icomera.
I’ll try to give it a test in the end of february and post about the experience.

Pressflex.com: NYTimes.com daily users top parent’s print circulation. Very interesting case profile on Nytimes internet activities:
- 1.28 million users, more than the print circulation.
- average age of reader 35 years compared to the newspapers 45 year average.
- overlap between online users and print readership only 8%.
- 30% retention rate on montly readership against the base of registered users
- generated 85,000 new home deliveries in 2001
- distributes 3.5 million daily “today’s headlines” emails.
- pays the portals 1 to 3 cents per visitor referred to the site.
- operating profit in 2002.
Lot’s of stuff to think about for media publishers - especially my beloved local danish media companies who instead of innovating are suing the people who are linking to them!

Z Partners - Weblog - great weblog on the future of design, branding, sustainability and diversity.

Bigco’s vs. The people 1-0. Lawrence Lessig: with deep sadness

News Page Designer - news page designers around the world uploading samples of their best work.

Rocio Romero LV Home - the stylish prebuilt 30,000$ vacation home. Spread a couple of them around the globe, put a broadband satellite system on the roof and you’re all set for the global digital living lifestyle…

Living is…
A couple of old magical 3,5″ disks that recovers the windows boot files on your laptop giving you the ability to work once again.

Koolhaas’ Office for Metropolitan Architecture has finally got a website allthough it looks more like a cdrom [link via nosenseofplace]

Infoworld: Creative disruption. Steve Gillmor interviews Ray Ozzie about disruptive technologies. Too sad that it seems as if Ozzie has stopped blogging.

Now it’s enough…
My second ibm portable, which i was using while the other was getting a new motherboard, lcd screen, lcd cables and hard drive (all malfunctioning!), just frooze which required a total power down ending up in a corrupted system file. So now it’s recovery, dealing with stupid outlook .pst files, transferring files somehow, etc.
Perhaps it really is a sign from the temples of Steve Jobs that i finally should switch back?