From Gerry McGovern, "Web Content Management: Top 10 Predictions for 2005". Well written, but that's what he does.

Last week I replaced a 1993-vintage 32" Panasonic direct-view (tube) television with a 2004-vintage 32" Panasonic direct-view (tube) television, HD-ready. I think I paid a little less for the 2004 model than the 1993 model.

Each set has a feature that allows you to enter 4 characters per channel to identify the channel by station call letters or cable service. After about 30 stations, the 1993 model returned "memory full" and didn't allow me to enter any more.

When I sat down with the new set to enter the station id's, I had full faith that Moore's law would give me all the room I needed. Memory is free! After about 30 stations, the 2004 model returned "memory full" and didn't allow me to enter any more.

Leon Atkinson suggests you look at all sides of the faster Firefox story before making your own decision.

From Ben Ryken at Web Associates via Mark Tuttle at Philips. Thanks for the tip! Here's how to make Firefox faster. I haven't tested the performance gains yet, but I'm also running it on my new dual-processor G5. I'm always changing too many variables at once! I like their caveat that this optimization isn't for dial-up users.

Those of you who followed the "long tail" link in my post about the Weblog Awards were rewarded with Chris Anderson's Wired article that talks about the new economics of being able to access the vast majority of content, etc., in the long tail of the demand curve. You know, the books at Amazon but not at your local store, the movies on Netflix but not at the local Blockbuster, the Web sites that have just what you're looking for  but aren't on the first page of Google. Chris has now created thelongtail.com, a blog to track manifestations of the "long tail" effect.