John Coyne: My Interests

Sun, 23 Jan 2005 18:13:54 GMT

Sat, 10 Jul 2004 22:52:52 GMT

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

Sat, 13 Dec 2003 18:37:49 GMT

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]

Fri, 28 Nov 2003 16:59:33 GMT

First Impression. "Compliments have more power when they're delivered directly."

-Robert Kegan and Lisa Laskow Lahey , Harvard Graduate School of Education

[Fast Company]

Mon, 07 Jul 2003 02:45:27 GMT

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]

Tue, 27 May 2003 03:40:28 GMT

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]

Tue, 20 May 2003 04:26:34 GMT

What Did You Do During the 2000s?. [Fast Company Edit this page to see how to handle pictures ]

Mon, 19 May 2003 03:53:37 GMT

Jon Lithgow. "Time sneaks up on you like a windshield on a bug." [Quotes of the Day]

Sat, 03 May 2003 20:29:01 GMT

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]

Sat, 03 May 2003 19:47:07 GMT

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 ]

Fri, 04 Apr 2003 01:41:32 GMT

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

Fri, 04 Apr 2003 01:34:01 GMT

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]

Fri, 04 Apr 2003 01:31:48 GMT

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]

Fri, 04 Apr 2003 01:31:03 GMT

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]

Wed, 19 Feb 2003 03:42:25 GMT

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]

Wed, 19 Feb 2003 03:41:04 GMT

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]

Wed, 19 Feb 2003 03:40:28 GMT

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]

Fri, 07 Feb 2003 03:25:12 GMT

iBlog enables Weblogging through .Mac [MacCentral]

Fri, 07 Feb 2003 03:23:53 GMT

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]

Fri, 07 Feb 2003 03:22:49 GMT

AaronSw discovered the easiest way to enable IPv6 on OS X. [Hack the Planet]

Fri, 07 Feb 2003 03:21:44 GMT

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]

Fri, 07 Feb 2003 03:21:14 GMT

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]

Fri, 07 Feb 2003 03:20:36 GMT

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]

Fri, 07 Feb 2003 03:20:05 GMT

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]

Thu, 16 Jan 2003 04:05:23 GMT

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]