Kapor's Open-Source PIM. 3 Feb 2003: Extreme Tech tells us aboutChandler.”Kapor, the co-founder of Lotus Development Corp. and principal author of the Lotus 1-2-3 spreadsheet application, first disclosed his PIM plans last October, as part of an ongoing blog on the Open Source Applications Foundation (OSAF) web site. The OSAF employs nine paid members and […]
Read MoreTranslucent Databases. 3 Feb 2003: Unix Review takes a look at the bookTranslucent Databases.”There's actually more to “translucency” than the idea of programmatically encrypting individual items or classes of data. One of the values of the book, in fact, is that it goes to the trouble of enumerating related ideas and their consequences. I'm particularly […]
Read MoreNet ranks as top information source. A UCLA study reveals Americans who go online rank the Internet as the most important information source, outpacing TV, newspapers and radio. [CNET News.com] [[ t e c h n o c u l t u r e ]] hmmm, i kow that i use it, but as for […]
Read MoreFrom Good Morning Silicon Valley: TIA+John Pointdexter. TLF: The Senate may have choked off government funding for John Poindexter's Total Information Awareness program (TIA) — a Defense Department research project that aims to identify terrorists by analyzing personal data collected in computer databases — but that has done little to stop its progress. Indeed, according […]
Read MoreThe PacketPC. Something that's slipping in underneath the radar from Sony: a 60GB, WiFi-enabled, portable hard drive called the PacketPC that's the size of an iPod and comes with an LCD touch screen for text entry, GPS, and an MP3 player. David Galbraith points out what is really amazing about the PacketPC though: Sony's enterprise […]
Read MoreWeblogs and instruction – Brown Daily Herald. Quote: “Blogs — the much−talked about Internet trend — can serve as invaluable tools for their inventors, said Brian Weatherson, a Brown professor of philosophy and creator of a philosophy blog. ” Comment: George Siemens is right .Ê A very brief piece.Ê The prediction at the end is […]
Read MoreFunny Latin Phrases. Quanto putas mihi stare hoc conclave ? That's “How many prostitutes does it take to change a lightbulb?” in Latin. No, actually it's “How much do you think I paid for this apartment?”. Here's hoping, in the wake of the BBC's superb The Roman Way series, written and presented by David Aaranovich, […]
Read Moresxsw web awards. ladies gents and babies, the 2003 sxsw web awards finalists have been announced [MetaFilter] looks like a good mix…
Read MoreCompare and contrast. These are essays from a famous think tank. These are link farmers who think publicly in a new kind of tank. Bonus link: Blogs become key tools for developers, by David Becker [The Doc Searls Weblog] The power of the public media is growing, and it is important, but does it really […]
Read MoreNo more referrer hunting. It's hard not to check the stats every 10 minutes to see if anybody linked to me. To help my weak will not to do this, I created an RSS file that shows all referrers of the current day. It even tries to show the title of the referring page and […]
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