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Hier stehe ich, ich kann nicht anders!
Eine Flaschenpost aus dem Jahr 2050 hat mich gestern erreicht. Das Z_magazin Nr.1. Schmeichelnde Worte im Editorial: "Wir haben Sie gezielt ausgewählt. ... Wir suchen uns unsere Leserschaft, nicht umgekehrt." Okay, ich muss zugeben, dass ich nicht mehr rekonstruieren... From
www.weiterbildungsblog.de on April 30, 2005 at 10:45 p.m..
Upgraded to use MySQL for this blog
Last week our
Vietnam Ride Blog suffered a corrupt database while I was adding some entries. I'm not sure how it happened, but there doesn't seem to be any graceful way to recover from it aside from exporting all the entries, re-installing Movable Type, and importing all the entries again. In the meantime, we can't update that blog at all, which is a drag, as there's lots going on. That's one of the downsides of using Movable Type with a Berkeley database for storage. So, now having been From
Oren Sreebny's Weblog on April 30, 2005 at 8:04 p.m..
Woolies but goodies
Ever since I got back from Vietnam last month the weather here in Seattle has been mostly cool (in the mid 40's F) and rainy, which has felt strange given that most of the winter was unusually warm and dry. I'm trying to ride my bike to work most days, and have realized that I actually have a shortage of warm bike-appropriate clothing. So I ordered some of these oh-so-stylish
Black Australian Wooly Tights from
Rivendell Bikes and I now believe everything Rivendell say From
Oren Sreebny's Weblog on April 30, 2005 at 8:04 p.m..
Felten on the RIAA suing I2hub
I've been meaning to post something about the suits filed this week by the RIAA against users of the i2hub file sharing software, which they managed to publicize as "RIAA sues Internet2". But I got caught up in moving the blog over to MySQL, and in the meantime,
Ed Felten has
put it much better than I would've. Given all of this, my guess is that the RIAA is pushing the Internet2 angle mostly for policial and public relations reasons. From
Oren Sreebny's Weblog on April 30, 2005 at 8:04 p.m..
Where have all the sales gone?
I've been saying for years that the music business is splitting into two almost mutually exclusive camps - one where corporate entities are grooming superstars for the mass market (think Britney, Christina, Justin, etc) and the rest of the world, where all the interesting music is being made and listened to by people who really like music. Now Kevin Kelly notes in his very cool Long Tail blog that the mass market will actually shrink to become less important over time. An astounding fact he brings up: By my count only ten of the
Oren Sreebny's Weblog on April 30, 2005 at 8:04 p.m..
spam comes in many flavors - all distasteful
I've been receiving a steady stream of totally distasteful trackback spam for the last couple of days. So I've now totally disabled trackbacks on ths blog. Too bad - another nice, useful, network feature ruined by avarice. Hey, I've got an idea - why don't we go back to the old days and disallow commercial use of the network? Well, one can always dream... And then I was cooking dinner this evening when the phone rang, and a male with a strong southern cracker sort of accent says: "Hello, is this Oren?" "yes." "This is the Internet guy." From
Oren Sreebny's Weblog on April 30, 2005 at 8:03 p.m..
Email, Calendaring, Open Source, and Chandler
I've been meaning to write something about the very auspicious release of
Chandler 0.5, but was waiting to get a bit more experience with it before saying anything. Chandler 0.5 is meant to be show working core functionality of calendar and email, the ability to integrate those things in a single repository, and the ability to share repository items over WebDAV. It is not meant to have any sort of good-looking UI, nor to be bulletproof - as Mitch says in his blog: PLEASE NOTE IT'S NOT READY From
Oren Sreebny's Weblog on April 30, 2005 at 8:03 p.m..
Newly formatted version of Pine vs. Gmail
Ryan Barrett, who works at Google, writes that he's got a newly nicely formatted of his
gmail vs. pine article available. The bottom line? I ended up using it for five weeks, and while I eventually switched back to Pine, I liked Gmail a lot more than I expected. It made me question lots of things I took for granted, and showed me that there's plenty of innovation left in email clients. I'm currently writing patches for Pine to implement the features I miss most from Gmail. From
Oren Sreebny's Weblog on April 30, 2005 at 8:03 p.m..
Gruber tells the Adobe Macromedia acquisition like it is
John Gruber does a
brilliant job on his Daring Fireball blog of translating Adobe's marketing speak in their press release answering questions about the acquisition of Macromedia. This line particularly rang true to me, where he describes PDF and Flash as the two leading technologies that irritate people when theyTMre used in lieu of regular web pages. I feel exactly that way. And while we're at it, how about people who make me open a Word attachment just to read From
Oren Sreebny's Weblog on April 30, 2005 at 8:03 p.m..
[Chandler Update] The Cosmo sharing server
Brian Moseley talked to us this morning about the work on designing a server for sharing calendaring and other items. This is a separate, but coordinated, project within OSAF. The server is called Cosmo. Brian's presentation slides are
here. It's interesting to see OSAF move closer over time to a more server-oriented view of the world. Of course, those of us in the CSG have been trying to tell them all along that servers make a lot of sense :) Why a From
Oren Sreebny's Weblog on April 30, 2005 at 8:03 p.m..
[chandler update] Scooby - the chandler web-browser interface
The other big news today at the Chandler update is that OSAF is planning to build a web-browser interface for Chandler functionality. This project is being called Scooby. The slides Mitch used to talk about it are
here. The idea is that instead of creating a separate version of the desktop Chandler app to support nomadic usage, users could get at calendaring and other Chandler items that reside on a
Oren Sreebny's Weblog on April 30, 2005 at 8:03 p.m..
Dropping in on the Creative Commons
One of the side benefits of my visit to OSAF yesterday was being able to take advantage of the fact that OSAF shares office space with the wonderful folks at the
Creative Commons. Just after the end of the meeting before I ran out of town, I popped downstairs to drop off a few
Whispering Johnson CDs (all compositions and performances licensed under a CC license) and to thank them for doing wonderful work, making it easier for creators to share their creations under their own terms. T From
Oren Sreebny's Weblog on April 30, 2005 at 8:03 p.m..
How to get audio email attachments from Thunderbird to play in ITunes?
Every so often someone sends me an email with an audio file attached (all strictly legal stuff, of course). I've been using Thunderbird as my primary email client on my Macs (and on Windows too, for that matter), and I'm pretty happy with it. But whenever I click on an audio attachment (usually .mp3) in Thunderbird the sound file opens up in Quicktime instead of in iTunes. I have iTunes set as the default application for Internet music playback (set within iTunes Preferences). The Thunderbird Preferences Attachment panel has a section for how to handle File From
Oren Sreebny's Weblog on April 30, 2005 at 8:03 p.m..
Dilbert nails it
I thought yesterday's (Sunday April 24) Dilbert comic strip nailed it right on the head: Wally: My accomplishment this month was opening a file that someone e-mailed. Pointy-haired-boss: That took an entire month? Go read the rest of it
here. From
Oren Sreebny's Weblog on April 30, 2005 at 8:03 p.m..
Ecto 3.2 seems groovy
I've been using
Ecto as my main blog-editing application for a long time now. I wasn't completely happy with the upgrade to version 2.x - the rich text editing seemed clumsy to me when I wanted control over the html, and it really bugged me that I needed to go all the way up to the menu to insert a link to the url from the clipboard - well, ok I know there's a cmd-U keyboard control for that, but who remembers that when they need it? So even though I installed version 2.x on my Powerbook, I decided to stick with version From
Oren Sreebny's Weblog on April 30, 2005 at 8:03 p.m..
Ontology, Ethics, Meaning
IT Conversations continues to hit 'em out of the park. One of my latest favorites is a conference presentation by Clay Shirky called "Ontology is Overrated." Shirky's opposed to top-down ontologies that decide what categories make sense, then divide the information, at times arbitrarily, into those categories. Instead, he argues that semantics emerge from [...] From
Gardner Writes on April 30, 2005 at 8:03 p.m..
The Chronicle of Higher Education Joins the Blogosphere
Well, sort of ... the Chronicle's blog isn't much more at this point than a headline-gathering service: valuable, but not very exciting. A bigger problem, though, is that the bloggers are not identified. The anonymity suggests there's little chance of finding interesting voices on this site. Thankfully, one can leave comments and do trackbacks, [...] From
Gardner Writes on April 30, 2005 at 8:03 p.m..
CBS News Reports on Podcasting
And that's the way it is, or will be: Adam Curry and the Lascivious Biddies are featured in this CBS News Video story about podcasting. It's a buzz-hype-lifestyle piece, but that doesn't mean it's wrong. I'm especially cheered to see that the LB's sales have spiked on the strength of Curry's Daily Source Code podcasts. [...] From
Gardner Writes on April 30, 2005 at 8:03 p.m..
What the Dormouse Said*
What a great title for a book about personal computers. I'm envious. Computerworld's April 25 issue reports on John Markoff's new book, What the Dormouse Said.... How the 60s Counterculture Shaped the Personal Computer Industry. Kathleen Melymuka's interview is brief, but Markoff's answers are fascinating, and there's an excerpt from the book following the interview. It's [...] From
Gardner Writes on April 30, 2005 at 8:03 p.m..
More Business Coverage of Podcasts
Technology Review blogger Wade Roush notes two new high-profile articles on blogging and podcasting. One is a Business Week cover story, the other a feisty essay on podcasting by Forbes.com's Sam Whitmore. I'm not surprised to see a blogger celebrate the disruptive power of these new media, but when Business Week and Forbes register their [...] From
Gardner Writes on April 30, 2005 at 8:03 p.m..
Jon Udell on Freshman Comp
EDITED VERSION FOLLOWS: changes made several hours later after much thought and further revelations. When I first saw Jon Udell's latest Infoworld weblog, I rubbed my eyes to make sure I was seeing straight: what he writes is so close to what I've been thinking and (intermittently) blogging about over the last few months that [...] From
Gardner Writes on April 30, 2005 at 8:03 p.m..
FyberSearch Officially Launches the XML Search Engine FeedPlex in Beta
The XML search engine FeedPlex was acquired by FyberSearch on November 1st 2004 and has now officially been released in beta. FeedPlex (http://www.feedplex.com) is a search engine that returns results in XML format, including RSS and RDF. FeedPlex was founded in the spring of 2004 by Sid Yadav and was acquired by the web search engine FyberSearch on September 1st, 2004. The XML files used in FeedPlex are crawled and cataloged by the FyberSearch web crawler FyberSpider. One bonus of having FyberSearch technology backing FeedPlex is that incoming links from non-XML web pages c From
RSS Blog on April 30, 2005 at 8:02 p.m..
Macintosh RSS Feed Software in Beta - Create, Edit and Publish RSS Feeds on a Mac
FeedForAll Mac - software to create, edit and publish RSS feeds and podcasts on your Mac is now available in beta form. A 'Beta' release of our FeedForAll Mac software product has been released. This means that the product is stable, but does not yet contain all the features planned for the final release. Nor does it contain all the documentation. It's purpose is to get feedback from users about the way the product works (general look and feel), and to get feedback concerning the features that are included (or should be included) in a final release. When From
RSS Blog on April 30, 2005 at 8:02 p.m..
Blog Search and Submission
Jayde has launched a new Blog Search Engine and submission. The site is ONLY for blogs though. They have the following posted on their submit page: Blog-Search is a search engine meant ONLY for Blog sites. Anyone submitting a site that is not blog related, will have their membership suspended, and will have their site removed from Blog-Search as well as ALL other Search Engines operated by JaydeOnline Inc. Additional Information on
Blog Search From
RSS Blog on April 30, 2005 at 8:02 p.m..
RSS Meets the Needs of Direct Marketers
Contrary to general opinion, RSS meets the needs of even the most demanding direct marketer, actually providing most of what e-mail marketing does, except for the strong push factor. Most direct marketing reasons against RSS are in fact the result of inadequate understanding of RSS by most marketers. Complete Article -
RSS Meets the Needs of Direct Marketers From
RSS Blog on April 30, 2005 at 8:02 p.m..
Topic Specific RSS Search Engine - Finance Investing
Finance Investing is a RSS directory that contains information related to finacial investment, finances, investing, banks, bonds, stocks and related investment sources. The site, one of the first of its kind is a collection of topic specific RSS feeds that allow site visitors to find information about finances and investments from a categorized directory of RSS feeds. If you have a related feed, it can be
RSS Blog on April 30, 2005 at 8:02 p.m..
RSS Submit Optional Extensions
The developers of
RSS Submit have optionally added a plug-in pack. Registered users of RSS Submit can add RSS Submit Plug-ins Registered users of RSS Submit may download and/or purchase additional plug-ins for even more RSS submission power. Examples include the Ping-o-matic plug-in to promote blogs, the Reporter plug-in to print submission reports, and much more. Check out the
SEO Expansion Plug-in Pack. From
RSS Blog on April 30, 2005 at 8:02 p.m..
RSS for Marketers
RSS is a technology that has the potential of overcoming many of the internet marketing challenges we are facing today and becoming a preferred tool to get 100% of your content delivered to your subscribers, as well as a tool to help you achieve top position search engine rankings. Complete Article -
RSS for Marketers From
RSS Blog on April 30, 2005 at 8:02 p.m..
ByteScout has been busy with RSS!
A new version of
FeedScout has been released. FeedScout is an RSS Reader. In addition ByteScout has released freeware version of Feed Scout called
My RSS Toolbar My RSS Toolbar is ready to use RSS reader with pre-defined set of feeds. It allows users the ability to view RSS feeds only and Feed Scout allow to import/export of additional feeds. ByteScout has also released an engine that is used in both Feed Scout and My RSS Toolbar as
RSS Blog on April 30, 2005 at 8:02 p.m..
DM: The Digital Medievalist
http://www.digitalmedievalist.org/journal.cfm Al enige tijd in de maak: DM, een digitaal tijdschrift voor de mediëvistiek. DM beschrijft zich als 'a new peer-reviewed on-line journal for technology and medieval studies'. Een buitengewoon nuttig initiatief, zeker na de opheffing van Computers and the Humanities. In het eerste nummer: Welcome to The Digital Medievalist - Daniel Paul O'Donnell Submission guidelines for The Digital Medievalist - Daniel Paul O'Donnell Towards the electronic Esposizioni: the challenges of the online commentary - Guyda Armstrong & Vika Zafri From
CHI weblog elektronisch publiceren on April 30, 2005 at 8:01 p.m..
Centrum voor Teksteditie en Bronnenstudie - Jaarverslag 2004
http://www.kantl.be/ctb/report/versl2004.htm Onze Vlaamse collega's van het CTB hebben hun jaarverslag over 2004 uitgebracht. Wat opnieuw opvalt is hoe een kleine club mensen een verbazingwekkend groot aantal mooie projecten kan uitvoeren. Sommige van die projecten leiden tot mooie boeken, zoals de uitgave van een selectie van de brieven van Herman de Coninck, andere projecten leiden tot digitale uitgaven. Bij het CTB loopt eveneens een aantal projecten van taalkundige aard. Voor deze weblog zijn vooral de CTB-projecten op het vlak van ICT en teksttechnologie interessant. Het CTB timmer From
CHI weblog elektronisch publiceren on April 30, 2005 at 8:01 p.m..
Peter Robinson over het kommervolle bestaan van de digitale kritische editie
Samenvatting Peter Robinson, een pionier van de digitale kritische editie, heeft een boeiend stuk geschreven over het in zijn ogen teleurstellende succes van de digitale kritische editie. Als wegbereider van het eerste uur had hij in de voorbije tien jaar een volledige omwenteling verwacht. Die is er niet gekomen: in de wereld van de kritische edities is de papieren uitgave nog steeds toonaangevend, en tot Robinsons teleurstelling is de goodwill van de academische uitgevers voor elektronische edities inmiddels vervlogen. Niettemin blijft de academische wereld overtuigd van de superioriteit v From
CHI weblog elektronisch publiceren on April 30, 2005 at 8:01 p.m..
Willem Frederik Hermans instituut · alles over Hermans
http://show.willemfrederikhermans.nl/ Met enige publiciteit wordt vandaag de site van het Willem Frederik Hermans Instituut gelanceerd. Het Huygens Instituut is bij de inrichting van deze site betrokken geweest (we werken immers aan de volledige werken van Hermans), dus helemaal onbevangen is deze reactie niet. Willem Frederik Hermans is, als ik een persoonlijk oordeel mag geven, de belangrijkste schrijver die we ooit hebben gehad. De digitale beschikbaarheid van hulpmiddelen voor de studie van zijn werk is verheugend. De natuurlijke reactie op de nu onthulde site is een vraag om meer; maar From
CHI weblog elektronisch publiceren on April 30, 2005 at 8:01 p.m..
European Digital Library Is Proposed
http://abcnews.go.com/Technology/wireStory?id=711854 Hoe meer materiaal wordt gedigitaliseerd, hoe beter. Daarom zullen we misschien maar niet hoofdschudden over Franse angst voor Amerika, maar blij zijn met het initiatief voor een Europese digitalisatie-inspanning vergelijkbaar met de eerder aangekondigde plannen van Google. 'Six European leaders jointly proposed Thursday that works contained in European libraries be made accessible online, in what they called a "European digital library." The appeal to European Union officials was signed by French President Jacques Chirac, German Cha From
CHI weblog elektronisch publiceren on April 30, 2005 at 8:01 p.m..
Giving Employees What They Want: The Returns Are Huge
David Sirota, co-author of The Enthusiastic Employee: How Companies Profit by Giving Workers What They Want (Wharton School Publishing), believes far too many managers stifle employee enthusiasm across the board by using bureaucratic or punitive techniques that should be reserved for a troublesome few. Yet his book, written with Louis A. Mischkind and Michael Irwin Meltzer, finds that firms where employee morale is high -- such as Intuit and Barron's -- tend to outperform competitors. In an interview with Knowledge@Wharton, Sirota talks about employees' three basic goals, how to deal From
Knowledge@Wharton on April 30, 2005 at 8:01 p.m..
On the Razr's Edge: Cell Phones Morph into Hip, Consumer Electronics Devices
According to Ron Garriques, executive vice president of Motorola's personal communications sector, markets in the developing world -- especially China and India -- are emerging as the battleground for mobile-device makers. Today, Illinois-based Motorola leads in North America and is investing heavily in China, Garriques said during a talk at the recent 2005 Wharton Technology Conference. He also discussed the competition (Nokia), new products (the Razr V3), the convergence of mobile phones with digital music players, and what he called the "mobility premium" and "location-b From
Knowledge@Wharton on April 30, 2005 at 8:01 p.m..
The House That Reliance Industries Built: On Oil, 'Infocomm' and, Coming Soon, Broadband
Construction of the world's largest petroleum refinery built from the ground up -- along with the rollout of a national telecommunications network -- required Reliance Industries, India's largest private-sector company, to devise new management and technology solutions to develop its mega-projects. According to Reliance executive director Hital R. Meswani, who spoke on campus this month, both those initiatives "demonstrated to us that value creation is possible through effective management of technology, building competencies around people and placing trust in them." Meswan From
Knowledge@Wharton on April 30, 2005 at 8:01 p.m..
Six Degrees of Separation: Examining Back Door Links between Directors and CEO Pay
Yes, it pays to be friends of those who pay you, or even to be friends of their friends. That, roughly speaking, is the conclusion of a study analyzing the impact of director relationships on the compensation of chief executive officers. The study examined director connections as many as a dozen steps removed from each other among 22,074 directors at 3,114 companies. The sample is the largest ever examined for this purpose - to analyze the structure and influence of social networks. Wharton accounting professors David F. Larcker, Scott A. Richardson and Irem Tuna, and Andrew J. Seary, an exper From
Knowledge@Wharton on April 30, 2005 at 8:01 p.m..
Car Trouble: Should We Recall the U.S. Auto Industry?
On April 19, General Motors announced a first-quarter loss of $1.1 billion, its worst result since 1992. On April 20, Ford Motor announced $1.1 billion in net income for the first quarter, a 38% decline from a year earlier, and projected that it would either post a loss or just break even in the second quarter. In Germany, shareholders at DaimlerChrysler's recent annual meeting lambasted chief executive Jurgen Schrempp, who has presided over a 50% drop in share price since Daimler and Chrysler merged in 1998. What's going on? Auto industry experts at Wharton and elsewhere say the bus From
Knowledge@Wharton on April 30, 2005 at 8:01 p.m..
PDFs in a Flash: What Drove the Adobe Systems-Macromedia Merger?
This week Adobe Systems, the San Jose, Calif.-based software company that is well known for its PDF technology, announced its $3.4 billion acquisition of Macromedia, a San Francisco-based firm whose Flash and Shockwave products are widely used to deliver video and animation on the Internet. The boards of both companies have approved the deal; the merger is expected to be completed later this year. Assuming that happens, the new Adobe Systems will emerge as a powerful software company with an array of products to deliver web-based content. Experts at Wharton and elsewhere point out, however, th From
Knowledge@Wharton on April 30, 2005 at 8:01 p.m..
The Global Impact of Rising Oil Prices
Crude oil hit an all-time high early in April, topping $58 a barrel -- and giving economists and financial-market analysts the shakes. Is an oil shock likely? And, given the enormous demand by China and other rapidly growing economies, is there any chance oil will drift back to comfortable prices in the $30 to $40 range? Knowledge@Wharton, China Knowledge@Wharton, and Universia Knowledge@Wharton interviewed experts in the U.S., China, Spain and Brazil for their perspectives on the impact of high oil prices on the world economy. From
Knowledge@Wharton on April 30, 2005 at 8:01 p.m..
Planned Lifetime Advocacy Network
The Planned Lifetime Advocacy Network (PLAN) is an organization focused on developing network learning environments designed to provide practical and concrete assistance for disabled people. The definition and purpose of a personal network is clearly articulated, and most importantly focused... From
Experience Designer Network on April 30, 2005 at 8:01 p.m..
I confess I haven't completely gotten through this ...
I confess I haven't completely gotten through
this article yet, but it does have an interesting premise.A couple things I'm noting right off the batthe sample is heavily weighted on the experienced online user side. I would tend to think that heavily-experienced online users might be more inclined to have better online self-regulation skills. What is particularly disturbing is the conclusion that levels of facilitation had no significant impact on cognitive restructure (aka w From
blog.IT on April 30, 2005 at 8:00 p.m..
via The Edu-Blogger via ElearnspaceThe future of u ...
via The
Edu-Blogger via
ElearnspaceThe future of usability is not dealing with information - that is the present of usability. We are inundated with information. We are struggling to cope and deal with it.I think the future of usability is in balancing innovation with usability. I think we have the capability even now to go beyond what the general public are capable of handling in terms of usability. I think usability and inno From
blog.IT on April 30, 2005 at 8:00 p.m..
Google expanding advertising
In another iteration of the advertising side of the search wars,
Google will now
support expanded commercial communication from selected firms. The short ads Google usually runs may
expand into banners or animations, like those more commonly seen on the web. Increased targeting of audience is
NITLE Tech News on April 30, 2005 at 8:00 p.m..
iPod in the classroom: Apple and Edugadget
Edugadget is running a good article on iPods in the classroom. It points to Apple's iPod for educators page, but also points out: You don't need an iPod to do any of these things. A simple mp3 player with a... From
MANE IT Network on April 30, 2005 at 8:00 p.m..
New Web design paradigm, says Adaptive Path
Two articles from Web design firm Adaptive Path argue that new forms for Web publishing are emerging this year. Janice Fraser recently wrote that a combination of tagging and social software represents a shift in structuring user experience. Beyond the... From
MANE IT Network on April 30, 2005 at 8:00 p.m..
WebCT 6.0 in beta
One of the two leading course management systems, the Canada-based WebCT, is releasing its new version, 6.0, in beta this week. (via Stephen Downes)... From
MANE IT Network on April 30, 2005 at 8:00 p.m..
Student web work challenged by Wal-Mart
As part of a class at Carnegie-Mellon, an undergraduate student launched a website which critiqued through parody retail giant Wal-mart. The company found the site, and its lawyers requested that the student change his work, citing the Digital Millenium Copyright... From
MANE IT Network on April 30, 2005 at 8:00 p.m..
Who do bloggers cite?
BlogPulse has finished surveying millions of blogs, and have analyzed which sites bloggers use for reference. The results are, perhaps surprisingly, mostly traditional, mainstream media: * Yahoo! News (40,145 citations) * New York Times (37,825 citations) * CNN (27,099 citations)... From
MANE IT Network on April 30, 2005 at 8:00 p.m..
Saturday, April 30, 2005
With two wars, the debate over Social Security reform, historic budget deficits, ungodly energy prices, and all the other problems the nation faces, the story of a runaway bride is apparently the most earth-shattering news of the day, as CNN, Fox News, MSNBC, and the other major networks spent all morning covering this hard-hitting story. From
RHPT.com on April 30, 2005 at 6:57 p.m..
The consequences of visitors
One of the consequences of having so many visitors while I've been here in Paris is that I haven't written nearly as much on this site as I'd intended. Indeed my little notebook is filled with post topics going back to the day after my arrival that have yet to be written. I'll try to get some down when I return, but it's not the same. I don't know where all the time went, it seems like I just arrived here, and now I find it's nearly May, the flowers that were blooming upon my arrival are all passed, and even the lilac on my terrace is browning now. My Frenc From
megnut on April 30, 2005 at 6:45 p.m..
Preleaking encores
From BradSucks: [01:01] very very soon it would seem that preleaking an album will be like a band leaving the stage before their encore [01:01] just totally expected, even though everyone can see it for what it is All part of the way the Net is disintermediating time. Ok, so that phrase means absolutely nothing. But it sounds damn good. In fact, the Net is making time more complex, smudging it, interlineating it, hyperlinking it, depriving it of its gatekeeping function. Ok, that didn't mean much. Here's what's actually happening, IMO: We have social conventions that let us act From
Joho the Blog on April 30, 2005 at 4:48 p.m..
On not "getting" blogging
You hear lots of "so-and-so just doesn't get it" bouncing around the blogosphere when somebody slams blogging, but that knee-jerk response probably doesn't accomplish anything. It's tempting, for example, for a fan of blogging to rant about a
recent column by Blaise Cronin, who is Dean of the School of Library and Information Science at Indiana University. To give the flavor of the... From
Weblogs in Higher Education on April 30, 2005 at 3:49 p.m..
Linux on Xbox: The shape of DRM to come
Michael Robertson, who funded the $200,000 attempt to get Linux running on an Xbox, writes about the XBox's successful DRM implementation as a harbinger of Longhorn: In spite of sharing the insides with a traditional PC, the Xbox has a dramatic and dangerous difference. A PC buyer can install any software or hardware that they wish. They own the machine and can change it to suit their needs - true ownership. There are no limitations. This open architecture is largely responsible for the two-decade personal computer revolution. With an Xbox, the user is merely renting the box. Microsoft de From
Joho the Blog on April 30, 2005 at 3:45 p.m..
NASA Scrubs Shuttle Launch
Extra repairs prove necessary for Discovery's fuel tanks, forcing the space agency to push back the launch for at least another two months. From
Wired News on April 30, 2005 at 10:45 a.m..
Circuit Benders Flock to Midtown
New Yorkers turn out in droves for the chance to dismantle Barbie phones and make them emit sounds they were never intended to produce. Rachel Metz reports from the Bent 2005 electronic arts festival in New York. From
Wired News on April 30, 2005 at 10:45 a.m..
I am an information glutton, and so are you.
They say we're living in the Information Age. I think they're right - whoever "they" are. Before the Information Age, we had the Computer Age, and a long time before that was the Ice Age. Anyway, the term has really come into its own in the last couple of years, especially, I would say, with the advent of Google and with it, the requisite improvement in the retrieval of information. I am a Google fanboy, but this piece isn't about Google or any other singular entity because they are just small players in the part of a much larger game, though I do refer to them quite a lot.Googl From
kuro5hin.org on April 30, 2005 at 8:45 a.m..
Debunking conspiracy theorists' paranoid fantasies about Sept. 11
by Gerard Holmgren debunker@hotmail.com Copyright Gerard Holmgren. Jan 2003. This work may be freely copied and distributed without permission as long as it not for commercial use. Please include the author's name, the web address where you found it and the copyright notice. Astute observers of history are aware that for every notable event there will usually be at least one ,often several wild conspiracy theories which spring up around it. "The CIA killed Hendrix" " The Pope had John Lennon murdered ", "Hitler was half Werewolf", "Space aliens replaced Nixon with a clone" etc,etc. The bi From
kuro5hin.org on April 30, 2005 at 5:45 a.m..
Getting Blogs Into Schools
I know I've mentioned it before, but I've had the great fortune this year to team teach the technology part of a doctoral course at
Seton Hall with
Alan November, and tonight we were back in class talking about blogs and wikis and the like. There are about 25 students in the cohort and about half have dipped into blogs in one way or another. I've linked to some here previously, but I found out tonight that there was quite a bit of blogging going on under the radar as well. There was actually blogappla From
weblogged News on April 30, 2005 at 4:45 a.m..
Intranet Planning Day (Adelaide + Perth)
We've just announced new dates for our Intranet Planning Day workshop, as follows: Adelaide (24 August 2005) Perth (14 September 2005) I ran the this new workshop for the first time this week in Canberra, and it's a fun day.... From
Column Two on April 30, 2005 at 2:47 a.m..
Taking Back Reality
Remember that piece from last week - my Arthur column about "us" taking back reality and leaving the virtual realm for "them"? Well, it's not a new idea - no, not even for me. David Kendall did an interview with me in Brighton in 1995 in which I reflected upon the very same idea. I suppose it just took me this long to write it down.
Here's the interview. Please remember I was on my very first book tour, and still quite green. An excerpt: David: Yeah, like in Cyberia, From
rushkoff.blog on April 30, 2005 at 2:45 a.m..
Survey Says... 'ECM's an Ideal, Not a Priority'
Doug Henschen reports on the results of a recent survey into ECM. To quote: Consolidating on a single enterprise content management (ECM) platform may be a laudable long-term goal, but it's not a priority. That's the sentiment of nearly 400... From
Column Two on April 30, 2005 at 1:47 a.m..
links for 2005-04-29
FT.com / Columnists - Richard Epstein: Why open source is unsustainable and a response (tags: OpenSource)... From
Monkeymagic on April 30, 2005 at 12:50 a.m..