02/03 Learning from others – Making choices — Dave Winer makes a point which I totally agree with: it is important to learn from what has come before – or more more provocatively – to steal good ideas wherever you can find them. And secondly that the only way to do th...

02/03 Switcher’s Log, Part 3: What I miss from my PC Days — In the continuing saga of the switch from Windows XP to Mac OS X, here is where we find our hero…. I have more or less gotten all the applications I use over onto the Mac. Almost all of them. I will be forced to leave behind Microsoft Money, X1 and Plaxo. Of all the stuff I ran on the PC, those ...

02/01 BlogBridge T-shirts — This may be a first! Get your cool BlogBridge t-shirts here!

02/01 A9’s Photographic Yellow Pages — Quite a bit has been written about this, so I won’t repeat except to relate my experience in setting up a breakfast with a friend of mine. Here is the link I sent him (so now you know where, but you don’t know when!)! Amusing to see the photo and the map of the place, isn’t it?

02/01 Link Spammers — I used to have comments enabled on this blog until I got overrun by link spam. With comments my readers could post responses to my Blog musings. I’ve since turned of commenting on this site. What is link spam? Suddenly one day you realize that some of your Blog articles have a very long list of random comments attached to them, each including a link to some random site. Who does this? Link Spammers. Why do they do it? To drive up the page rank of PPR Sites. (PPR? Pills, Porn and Casinos). Here is one link spammers story.

01/29 Too much information! — It’s one thing to be interested in blogs so you can read and learn and become aware of new ideas. But when it comes to joining into the discussions, watch out! No it’s more than the well known problem of following discus...

01/27 Tags, Meta Tags, Meta Data, Yada Yada — It is of course impossible to keep up with the avalanche of discussion about the topic of tags, folksonomies, tagonomies. David Weinberger points to a (beautifully designed: love those pictures!) essay on the topic from [burningbird](h...

01/26 Do Mac users have eye problems – Switcher’s Log – Part 2 — It seems to me that all text and other Mac OS X user interface elements are a little bit bigger than their counterparts on the PC. Why is that? It seems like the same size screen fits less stuff when attached to a Mac OS X system than to a Win XP system. It’s annoying – it makes you feel less productive. I am hunting for some tweak software to adjust this but I am starting to think it doesn’t exist. Why?

01/26 [BlogBridge Tip] Activate your BlogBridge service account — (If you are not a BlogBridge you will not find this very interesting) We notice many of you have requested a BlogBridge account but not activated it. Here’s the thing: once you ask for the account, you will receive an email with a link in it that you have to click. Until you click, your account will not be ready to us. (Our instructions need to be improved!) Why activate? Because until you do, the wonderful benefits of the BlogBridge service will not be available to you!

01/24 [BlogBridge Tip] Themes — Did you know that BlogBridge has ‘themes’ ? Well today there are only two, but soon there will be many. A Theme is just way to set all the fonts and colors and other UI settings in one fell swoop. For example, the “Big Theme” uses larger fonts making them easier to read. Enjoy!

01/23 Blogging, Journalism and Credibility – Harvard — I was lucky enough to be able to participate in a conference on Blogging, Journalism and Credibility at Harvard University. I am not myself an expert on this but found the discussions extremely instructive. And of course I see possibilities that our [BlogBrid...

01/22 Day of reckoning coming for Microsoft? — You’ve heard this one before: there are more and more truly outstanding pieces of software coming out as Open Source. Everyone has heard about FireFox, right, the wonderful Web Browser from the Mozilla guys. I just came across [news that Internet Explorer usage fell again](http://www.activewin.com/...

01/20 Switcher’s Log — For close readers of this (yes all two of you), I was considering switching to a Mac as my primary computer. Basically I had a mac as a tirtiary computer, just for testing BlogBridge. I got to like it, and after a fairly careful study of the trade-offs, I’ve done it. As of now, my Windows box is off...

01/17 Improv in Wikipedia — I got many comments from people about my postingsrecently about Lotus Improv. Imagine my surprise when I discovered a pretty accurate description of Improv and its history in the WikiPedia. By the way, I had absolutely nothing to do with writing it. Actually I am quite curious who did write it, because he or she was pretty well informed so I suspect it’s someone who was on the team from the early days, or knew someone who was. (Of course there are a few inaccuracies, but what the heck!) Cool

01/16 BlogBridge tip: Send us Feedback — (Non-users of BlogBridge, this wil not be interesting to you. But you have to ask yourself, why are you not using it?) As most everyone who uses BlogBridge seems to be subscribed to my Blog I thought posting a tip or news every so often might be a way to expose some thinking about BlogBridge to you ...

01/16 Peggy Noonan on Media — Peggy Noonan is a great, albeit a little on the conservative side, columnist that I read whenever I can. Here’s a good article she wrote on the Main Stream Media. Blogs and Dan Rather.

01/14 Four Hours on a Segway — I think the Segway Human Transporter is really cool, and I’ve read many articles about how they work and what they are like. But this past weekend I had the unique experience of spending about 4 hours riding around New Orleans on a Segway. Eye Opening. Here are some (surprising) observations...

01/12 Thinking of being a deserter — I’m seriously thinking about starting to use a Macintosh for my day to day work computer instead of a PC! Can you believe it? Why? - My research so far says that a fast Mac running OS X is comparable, price performance to a Wintel computer. I’m a big fan of wonderful design and while I think Windo...

01/10 [GEEK] Nerd Humor — Amusing. Do you recognize yourself? And while you are wasting time, how easily can you tell a programmer from a serial killer?

01/10 BCC Protocol – Email Morality? — What does the existence of “BCC” (which I think stands for the anachronism “blind carbon copy”) tell us about the social norms of emails? This thought occurred to me just now as I was the recipient of an email (corresponding to (3) in the not at all uncommon scenario that I describe below. It is an ...