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Dan Bricklin’s written a bit on a topic that’s been indirectly on my mind lately. It has to do with BlogBridge, the Blogging tool that I’ve been developing as a back room project for a while now (I post periodic updates, s...
Read more →Several people asked me about what the security situation in Spain felt like. I have to admit it did give me pause to be going to Spain little more than a month after the terrorist attack on the trains in Madrid. In fact our travel plans included several long train rides. I checked with friends who ...
Read more →In the accompanying photo you can see one of the ubiquitous TV screens sprinkled all around the Spanish subway system. They display up-to-the-minute information about arrivals and departures, in real-time, also ads and other commercial announcements. Very useful! [ that we are away. Granada is a nice little town in Southern Spain, with a Moorish or Middle Eastern influence. We spent hours yesterday wandering around the Alhambra, which was great, although we are paying with our feet today… Tomorrow we leave for a few days in Sevilla. See you there.
Office XP for $59.95! It must be some kind of bootleg, but it’s quite blatant. I wonder what the catch is…
A good little insight from Rafe Needlemanin his new column over at ZDNet. “The reason it won’t last: If you can get a telephone with any area or country code, the whole idea of a vanity area code will eventually evaporate. It won’t be like a real-world address, which for the most part still represents a physical location. While roaming cellular phones have already begun to make area codes irrelevant, VoIP will finish the job. Soon, area code will be one of those anachronistic telecom terms, like dialing, that doesn’t mean anything close to what it once did. “
How would you like to be able to “implant a GPS-microchip in the body of a human being”? I came across this link. It just has to be a prank.
The true story comes out about the most excellent subservient chicken gimick. I mentioned ita few days ago when I first saw it; it was amazing how quickly it spread. Here is an articlegiving some background on how it was done, where it came from and what the thinking was: “In fact, CP+B came up with about 400 different actions that the chicken could do, and then filmed them in the course of a day in Los Angeles.”
Thanks to Chris Shipley for this link, and you can read her post for the thoughtful commentary on this. As for me, well this is really funny: Subservient Chicken
I’ve had occasion to look into what kinds of rich text editors are availble out there, and I thought I’d use this as a place to record the results, for myself, for you, and for posterity. Basically I am looking for a Rich Text Editor that can be embedded in a browser based application. Here are the ...
Read more →Some say that it’s very important that they be able to use one identity while doing one thing, and a different one for another. In ‘cyberspace’ they want to be able to express themselves without that expression being tied back to them. My gut reaction is that I don’t like this. It seems dishonest. I...
Read more →What’s the relationship between offshore outsourcing and immigration? Here’s an interesting connection. Immigration brings workers from other countries to this one. With outsourcing, we send the work to them (because with fast networks, we can…) For years Immigration was a hallmark of U.S. society, the melting pot and all that. Its fair to say that it’s been viewed positively. The people that are against offshore outsourcing today would have been against immigration in the past. (And I say that as an actual immigrant 🙂
One of the reason that society needs people to transact with each other using real identities, maybe, is that in the end, virtual digital persona can’t own and transfer ownership. I can’t buy or sell or trade with a virtual digital persona. Corporations in fact are virtual people in some sense, and ...
Read more →If I did things correctly, you should not have noticed too much different. But today, with the help of Dennis Doughty, I’ve switched to using Movable Typeas my blogging software. It’s no picknick, let me say that. My only reason to switch really was to make it easy for me to post from different computers. Other than that, I was happy with Radio Userland, and in fact I will miss certain things I’ve gotten used to in Radio. We’ll see how it goes. Please let me know if anything breaks!
I am at the WTF conference (more of a retreat.) IN addition to the more cogent posts that follow, here are some links and pointers that may be of interest. - About Venture Capital and Innovation: http://www.signallake.com/innovation/ - About Telecom: http://www.telepocalypse.net/ - Lof details about the WTF meetingFast Company Blog. - Blog about Iraq: The Iraq War Reader Books: - Who Really Matters – Art Kleiner
Having someone in the family who applied to college (and got in) I really appreciate this article. Not to mention that I agree totally with the point of view.
I’ve been a quasi-believer about RD-ID technology for a while now. I know more than several people who are investing their time and money into this space, but I am a fence-sitter. Briefly, why? - From what I hear and read, it doesn’t quite work reliably yet. The readers can easily be confus...
Read more →CBS News’ Bob Schieffer Speaking at Cambridge Forum 7:30 p.m March 31. Should be interesting. Here’s the schedule of the Cambridge Forum.