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16 May 2003 |
MORRISVILLE edu -- Tell Bill Drew when your library has wireless access of any kind and he will link to it on a map of the USA. What about Europe?
Bill Drew: Libraries with wireless access
Blogdex
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CNET -- Nokia is developing a digital pen that will let people write or draw a note, transfer it over MMS to another mobile phone.
CNET: Nokia pen to beam notes to phones
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GARRINGREEN HOTSPOT -- Some people think I have flamed out of the blogosphere because the primary location of my weblog has shifted. Also, some long-time bloggers have started pondering the weblog burnout rate. Jeremy Zadowny raises the question:
Does anyone know what the average "burnout rate" for webloggers is? You know, if you were trying to figure how how likely someone was to abandon their blog in the first 3, 6, or 12 months. What would that number be? Do most bloggers stick with it? Or it it more like dieting, where most people are good for the first month or so, but then if becomes more of an occasional activity? I put a little minus sign next to the blogs in my right hand gutter when they go inactive for more than a month. When I posted this comment, around 15 sites had a month's worth of rot on them and were annotated by a minus sign. And I have a list of blogrot properties on my Palm m505. Perhaps I should move the list to a blog story location.
Jeremy Zadowny: Weblog burnout rate
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GARRINGREEN HOTSPOT -- Several deep thoughts are emerging concerning the codification of a "reputation system." Although I don't understand all the implications, I know that the research goes well beyond the deciphering of manually-created FOAF files. The end product will be something like page rank for the blogosphere. It will be an algorithm that substantiates the real A-List of blogging.
Joi Ito: Getting ready for phase two of Technorati Hacks
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15 May 2003 |
AIESEC org -- An unusual Radio weblog community is being offered by AIESEC, a 50,000-member student organization that facilitates international work exchange programs in 80 countries. The weblogs, which are all run by AIESEC members, are part travelogue and part extremely multicultural college newspaper.
Aiesec Radio Community Server
Rogers Cadenhead: Student exchange program offers Radio weblogs
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 Aboard Irish Rail -- The two hour train journey used to be a whole lot more tedious for women travelers but with Audi-Oh, the sensation is a whole lot different. The underlying bass vibration aboard a train gives you a whole new gentle vibe when you're all hooked up. Most Irish trains are very crowded during peak commute times, so for privacy's sake, you would want to set up in the back of the last carriage on a departure leaving Dublin after 8 PM.
Seasoned travelers will want to plug directly into personal stereo systems and that means buying the Y-adaptor to do this.
Technically speaking, the Audi-Oh would be a hotter item if it could be manufactured with some Bluetooth connectivity between the bullet and the controller. But for now, Audi-Oh does what it says on the box and it hits the right spot.
Review by Jenne: The Audi-Oh
Audi-Oh pricing and shopping
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FORTUNE -- Lise Buyer, a highly respected former CSFB analyst, has joined Google at "official lug-net checker" (her words). Her business card says "director of business optimization" and potential investors know her appointment is pretty clever. She will send the right message back to the Street.
Adam Lashinsky: "Google finds a good analyst" in Fortune, May 12, 2003
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IA SLASH -- Kathryn La Barre and Chris Dent have been experimenting with computational methods for creating a faceted access structure of the Unrev-II mailing list archives. They aim to accomplish something that Tom Devore Murphy and I have in mind--to build an access tool for an email archive that also functions as a knowledge repository. La Barre is probing traditional semantic analysis, clustering algorithms, and facet analysis.
Dent and La Barre: Creating conceptual access to the Unrev-II archive
Bootstrap Alliance: Faceted Access Structure for the Unrev-II archives
IA SLASH: Keyword extraction and facet analysis for email archives
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GARRINGREEN HOTSPOT -- Gavin Sheridan enjoys Ali G's humour as much as many of his Irish audience. Now that New York Times has lifted the lid on Ali G's style, expect to find fewer people being ambushed by the street homeboy interviewer. But it will take a long time for Americans to understand the humour of Is it cuz I is black? Hint: if you feel downtrodden, let loose the phrase and around the Irish-English islands, they'll shower empathy on you.
James Woolsey was good-natured when Ali G brought up the grassy knoll and asked, "So who shot J.R.?" Richard Thornburgh was patient when Ali G misinterpreted the meaning of hung juries. And Brent Scowcroft didn't flinch when Ali G asked him, "Did they ever catch the people who sent Tampax through the mail?"
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ONE STAT -- Google has a global average usage share of 55.2 percent during the past two months. This means that Google is the most popular search engine on the Web. Yahoo stands at 21.7 percent, making it the number two search engine.
OneStat.com
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 OREILLY -- The NoCat Nightlight is a weatherproof wireless access point integrated into a light-fixture that screws into a socket that provides network connectivity over the powerline. The engineers want the access point to be able to provide lighting as well as data. They have soldered some copper romex onto a fluorescent bulb as a prototype. The romex is rigid enough to hold the lamp steady, and easy to solder to. The fluorescent bulb is not as bright as the 300 watt spot lamp that it replaces, but the light must be cooler, otherwise it will melt the access point.
Rob Flickenger: The NoCat Night Light
Jeremy Lyon: WiFi Nightlight and BoingBoing: WiFi nightlight.
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GARRINGREEN HOTSPOT -- Interesting details emerging on a new Sony handheld scheduled for release prior to Christmas 2004.
- Based on portable entertainment platform (PSP)
- New platform is Universal Media Disc (UMD) comprising of a 60mm optical disc (1.8GB)
- PSP will have a wide screen 480 x 272 pixel TFT LCD monitor
- Video quality equivalent to DVD video at low data rate with MPEG4 which gives it 3D graphics
- USB 2.0 port compatible with Memory Stick
Games developers will see the licensing details within four weeks. Consumers will see the new platform being used for portable gaming as well as live entertainment through the network. This is a media Walkman for the 21st century.
Jack Schofield in Onlineblog
Nate Mook: Sony announces PSP Entertainment Platform
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GARRINGREEN HOTSPOT -- I get a few visitors each day using browsers whose referrers have been "blocked by AdSubstract. I've noticed the number is increasing each month.
I first saw this software booting online ads off PCs three years ago. It's a top-rated pop-up and ad blocker that increased my browsing speed on a W95/IE4 installation I tested in 2001.
People running AdSubtract will normally block all banners and most animations. The software can also neuter some parts of shopping carts by blocking the GoTo pricing mechanimsm. My referrer page from Radio UserLand shows these hidden referrers. My Web server logs tells me people searching for info concerning erotic art and child porn (two of the topics I've discussed in this blog) are most likely to be running with cloaked referrer information.
Reviews of AdSubtract
Michelle Kessler: Software boots online ads off PCs in USA Today
Rayne Today: Commonality
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