Sunday, January 23, 2005

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Saturday, July 10, 2004

Saturn Unveiled. The images from the Cassini-Huygens spacecraft get more and more amazing. [Dan Gillmor's eJournal] 4:52:52 PM    comments

Saturday, December 13, 2003

Magnetic Field Is Fading, but No Dire Effects Are Foreseen. Geophysicists increasingly wonder whether the magnetic field has begun one of its occasional reversals that, over time, might lead to compasses pointing south instead of north. By Kenneth Chang. [New York Times: Science] 12:37:49 PM    comments

Friday, November 28, 2003

First Impression. "Compliments have more power when they're delivered directly." -Robert Kegan and Lisa Laskow Lahey , Harvard Graduate School of Education [Fast Company] 10:59:33 AM    comments

Sunday, July 6, 2003

Escape from ETL Hell: The Real Time Enterprise. Five 9's--the universal symbol of reliability in high-tech. Five 9's represents 99.999% uptime or just a little over five minutes of allowed downtime per year. Achieving five 9s isn't easy. Operations organizations that do achieve it do it, in part, by carefully instrumenting and monitoring systems using expensive software like HP OpenView and IBM's Tivoli. These kinds of systems aren't cheap, but operations managers know that you can't manage what you can't measure and with only five minutes to spare in any given year, they'd better have that information in real time. [Windley's Enterprise Computing Weblog] 8:45:27 PM    comments

Monday, May 26, 2003

Pounds Lost on Atkins Diet May Quickly Return. The first five to seven pounds lost on the Atkins diet are not fat but water, released by the body when it gets little or no starch or sugar from food. By Jane E. Brody. [New York Times: Health] 9:40:28 PM    comments

Monday, May 19, 2003

What Did You Do During the 2000s?. [Fast Company Edit this page to see how to handle pictures ] 10:26:34 PM    comments

Sunday, May 18, 2003

Jon Lithgow. "Time sneaks up on you like a windshield on a bug." [Quotes of the Day] 9:53:37 PM    comments

Thursday, April 3, 2003

Where Am I Going? Blog Events from iCal. Thursday while I was listening to Ben Hammersly's talk on the semantic something or other, I noticed that he had a box on his weblog that showed events he was planning to attend in the near future. I thought that was a good idea, so I put one on my weblog too. If you look to the right, you'll see a box labeled Upcoming Events that lists things I'm planning on going to in the next 90 days. I didn't really want to double enter this on my calendar and my blog, so I decided I'd link the box on my blog to the calendar I keep on my Powerbook. This is the story of how I did it. [Windley's Enterprise Computing Weblog] 2:29:01 PM    comments

Topics, topicRolls, communities and abuse. David Sifry rises some very interesting issues about topics and bloggers. He's absolutely right: abusing topics could break the whole system. Topics abuse, just like metatags abuse with search engines, becomes relevant when topics from several bloggers or news sources will need to be merged and categorized by aggregators. The way we thought to partially address these issues is by adding the cloud element to the specs, which should specify whose topics are in use and, thanks to topicRolls, allow to flow topics lists in every direction. Here's how I see possible topics usage in the near future: There are 3 main ways topics could be used: 1. Intranet Application. Weblogs are a great way to collect information and share it with other people in real time within a working environment. In our new product, a centralized aggregator will extract topics from users' feeds (each user can create new topics) and redistribute them on the network via topicRolls. 2. Topics communities. I couldn't say way, but I see these communities gathered around publishers, which already have experience categorizing contents. I could, for example, decide to become part of the NyTimes cloud, and use the NyTimes categorization system to markup my posts. Of course, all contents coming from weblogs belonging to the same cloud will be easily organized. 3. Local users. It's the position current LiveTopics users are: they can create their own topics and use them on their weblogs. A new generation of smart RSS aggregators will be able to use these topics, but I don't think that these "local" topic maps will be easy to merge anytime soon. [Paolo Valdemarin: Paolo's Weblog ] 1:47:07 PM    comments

CTO Forum: Ray Ozzie charts dynamic collaboration. Groove founder looks at the evolution of enterprise collaboration [InfoWorld: Top News] 7:41:32 PM    comments

From Chimney Pot to Loge, a Virtual Close-Up of Paris. A digital photo database aims to show every listed address in the major cities of France and Spain. By Kristen Hinman. [New York Times: International] 7:34:01 PM    comments

Double-Digit Growth in No-Growth Times. It's every company's goal -- but it's one that few manage to achieve. Here are strategies and tactics to make your company grow again, drawn from in-depth research on companies that have been registering double-digit growth for years. Tired of cutting costs and downsizing dreams? Adrian Slywotzky and Richard Wise bring you your wake-up call. [Fast Company] 7:31:48 PM    comments

First Impression. "Communicate frequently, leave emotions at the door, and have a well thought out plan of attack." -John Higgins, Chief Learning Officer, BearingPoint [Fast Company] 7:31:03 PM    comments

Tuesday, February 18, 2003

More on Nick Denton's Pro Blogs. Welcome to the world of ``nano publishing'' -- an emerging brand of Internet-based journalism that is helping shape the future... [Dan Gillmor's eJournal] 9:42:25 PM    comments

Questions Outnumber Answers on P.S.A. Test. Many medical agencies recommend an annual P.S.A. test for prostate cancer for all men over 50, but some physicians and medical experts have advised against it. By Jane E. Brody. [New York Times: Health] 9:41:04 PM    comments

Diet Battles Head for Television. A group opposed to the newly popular high-protein diets has decided to make its views known. By Patricia Winters Lauro. [New York Times: Health] 9:40:28 PM    comments

Thursday, February 6, 2003

iBlog enables Weblogging through .Mac [MacCentral] 9:25:12 PM    comments

More pages on configuring various weblogs. New NetNewsWire pages: how to configure NetNewsWire so you can post to Blogger, Blosxom, Conversant, and Drupal weblogs. Feedback is very welcome. More pages like this will appear. (For Movable Type, Manila, and so on.) These most recent pages are all by Robert Daeley, author of PHPosxom. [inessential.com] 9:23:53 PM    comments

AaronSw discovered the easiest way to enable IPv6 on OS X. [Hack the Planet] 9:22:49 PM    comments

Photoblogging for the Masses!. Scrapblog "Welcome to a new photographic community. This is a site for people who want to create their own photoblog but don't have a host or the tools they need to create one. It's simpler to use than sites like Webshots or Shutterfly. You can create new albums in a flash." [via Recently approved feeds from Syndic8.com] Actually, this is a neat idea since it allows for comments on pictures. Theoretically, it should also offer an RSS feed for your new albums, although I don't see that in place at Scrapblog even though it's powered by phpNuke. Interestingly, there are direct links from the individual pictures to "print this photo on Shutterfly." [The Shifted Librarian] 9:21:44 PM    comments

Chandler in Organizations. Since the outset, we've intended that Chandler be useable by groups without requiring a server. Sharing calendars among a small... [Mitch Kapor's Weblog]   Excellent approach. [John Robb's Radio Weblog] 9:21:14 PM    comments

Business Week.  Apple's Rendezvous is maturing nicely.  Self aware networks.  Combine Rendezvous with mesh wireless and your head starts to spin. [John Robb's Radio Weblog] 9:20:36 PM    comments

Here is way to view your Radio weblog on your desktop: http://127.0.0.1:5335/index Use this link only with Radio running.  This can allow you to do two things:  1) provides you a preview of your weblog if you are publishing while disconnected (ie.  a laptop on an airplane), and 2) allows you to use Radio as a personal journalling tool that is never published (this is a great way to create a extremely private back up brain of time organized notes). [John Robb's Radio Weblog] 9:20:05 PM    comments

Wednesday, January 15, 2003

Information mapping. Samuel Wan is an accomplished Flash programmer and interaction designer. A while ago I pointed to his fisheye menu which, like the new Mac OS X dock, is both an elegant visual effect and a clever way to manage scarce screen real estate. Today Samuel points to this 1998 episode of This American Life, whose description begins: ... [Jon's Radio] 10:05:23 PM    comments

Saturday, January 11, 2003

A conversation with Ray Ozzie. Ray Ozzie, founder, chairman, and CEO of Groove Networks, has been a creator and harnesser of disruptive technology since the dawn of the client/server age. In a conversation with InfoWorld Test Center Director Steve Gillmor and Lead Analyst Jon Udell, Ozzie discusses the unique nature of disruptive technologies, the role of collaboration tools in the workplace, and the emerging law of unintended consequences. [Full story at InfoWorld.com] ... [Jon's Radio] 2:13:56 PM    comments

Monday, December 9, 2002

Adventures in content management. A while back I set up a category for tracking my InfoWorld columns and stories. It's a handy feature of Radio (and of other blogging tools, such as Movable Type) -- just pick your category names, and tag one or more of these names onto an item to assign it to one or more categories. As always, though, this little exercise in content management wound up being trickier than I'd planned. ... [Jon's Radio] 10:42:27 PM    comments

Macworld announces 2002 Editors' Choice Awards [MacCentral] 9:01:58 PM    comments

Sunday, November 24, 2002

Earthweb on weblog software for IT managers. [Scripting News] 8:45:19 PM    comments

Free search engine software.  Thunderstone Webinator.   All it takes to build a powerful knowledge sharing network: Weblog software:  Radio or Manila Search engine:  Thunderstone or the Google appliance News aggregator:  Radio [John Robb's Radio Weblog] 8:35:19 PM    comments

Sunday, October 13, 2002

Behavior: A Best Friend in Times of Stress. People cope better with stressful tasks in the company of a pet than when alone or supported by a friend or spouse, a new study has found. By John O'neil. [New York Times: Health] 5:45:42 PM    comments

Hard-Hit Monarch Butterflies Demonstrate Their Resilience. Monarch butterfly numbers plunged over large areas of the United States this summer, yet had a surprisingly average year in the Midwest. By Carol Kaesuk Yoon. [New York Times: Science] 5:43:49 PM    comments

As Trees Die, Biologists Battle Back. The effort to surround a new and relentless plague that threatens oaks, redwoods and much more. By Carol Kaesuk Yoon. [New York Times: Science] 5:40:41 PM    comments

Bruce Barton. "When you're through changing, you're through." [Quotes of the Day] 5:38:06 PM    comments

Kenya's Leader to Step Down but Not Out. President Daniel arap Moi, a shrewd tactician when it comes to running Kenya, is leaving office on his own terms. By Marc Lacey. [New York Times: International] 5:34:51 PM    comments

For the Ozone Layer, a New Look. Satellite observation of the hole in the ozone layer shows that it has split in two and has shrunk considerably. By The New York Times. [New York Times: Science] 5:32:59 PM    comments

5 Little Oryxes and the Big Bad Lioness of Kenya. A lioness from the Samburu National Reserve in Kenya that adopted five newborn antelopes finally ate one of her adoptees. By Marc Lacey. [New York Times: Science] 5:30:27 PM    comments

Monday, July 29, 2002

User Interface, User Experience -- Where's It Going? [Dan Gillmor's eJournal] 9:39:10 PM    comments

Arthritis: Your `Reward' for Wear and Tear. By understanding its known causes and associated risk factors, much can be done to forestall the discomfort and limitations imposed by arthritis. By Jane E. Brody. [New York Times: Health] 9:33:30 PM    comments

Wednesday, July 24, 2002

BlogRoots BlogRoots The BlogRoots authors are publishing their book on the Web, in its entirety. Chapter 8, Using Blogs in Business, is online now. Excellent. 10:28:54 PM    comments

Apple details Mac OS X Up-To-Date program [The Macintosh News Network] 10:21:52 PM    comments

Sunday, June 30, 2002

Nikon lowers price of Coolpix 2500 and 5000. Nikon US has announced a lower MSRP prices of $299.95 for the Coolpix 2500 and $999.95 for the Coolpix 5000. This move is no doubt linked to the recent announcement of the Coolpix 2000, 4500 and 5700 and makes... [Digital Photography Review (dpreview.com)] 7:02:43 PM    comments

Steve Yost on ubiquitous collaboration tools. Steve Yost, inventor and proprietor of QuickTopic, disagrees with David Weinberger's assertion that collaborative software fails to thrive because companies are afraid to "hyperlink the hierarchy." The real problem is more mundane, Steve says: ... [Jon's Radio] 6:59:08 PM    comments

Radio Demystified. First cut. Yes, I'm back from Austin, armed and dangerous. [Russ Lipton Documents Radio] 6:47:06 PM    comments

Saturday, February 9, 2002

Cisco in a Time of Paranoia. Bill Mann takes a look at some issues from Cisco's quarterly report. [The Motley Fool] 2:15:59 PM    comments

Saturday, February 2, 2002

This Linda's picture from New Mexico 9:17:41 PM    comments

Technology Report 2001-02 Readiness for the Networked World 7:48:26 PM    comments

Tuesday, January 29, 2002

Treo components shortage easing. The company starts selling the handheld-cell phone device in Hong Kong. Meanwhile, the CEO says the parts shortage that has slowed the product's U.S. launch is easing. [CNET News.com] 9:17:17 PM    comments

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