Archive for January, 2002
Monday, January 28th, 2002
The Eye of the News Storm
Ah, how refreshing! My news feed was less than 2 pages this time! I’m able to look at it thoroughly now. Actually, that’s probably only because the volume of news has decreased. In other words, if the amount of news I could process and react to was a fixed quantity, the only variable in the [...]
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Monday, January 28th, 2002
Random thoughts: Weblogs in the workplace [WorkLog?] will only be efficient if parsed, scanned, sliced and diced by an in-house “Google”. This is, of course, precisely what Google should be selling as a webservice. Secure indexing of weblogs and even email, accessible by its contributors only. By making this a webservice, content stays in its [...]
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Sunday, January 27th, 2002
My First Blogging Pain
I still don’t know what exactly a blog is for. It seemed like a great way to journal my thoughts somewhere. And I love Sam Ruby’s concept (is it his?) of Manufactured Serendipity. I would love to meet some other folks with similar thinking (even if it is a pseudo-accident). A lot of people blog [...]
No Comments » - Posted in The Muse by jmiller
Thursday, January 24th, 2002
Here goes… I have been learning about blogging for over a year now, and it seems that this it is something I can’t pull myself away from. I believe I am beginning on a life-changing journey from which there is no return, but also no regret for what lies behind in the quicksand swamp of [...]
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Wednesday, January 23rd, 2002
Manufactured Serendipity! Blogger Sam Ruby describes his reason for blogging and identifies the broader principle of “manufactured serendipity”–creating the conditions that make serendipity more likely to occur. This is what I’m hoping to achieve with XAG. More on this later…
No Comments » - Posted in XAG / The Redemption Project by jmiller
Monday, January 21st, 2002
Mitch Kapor’s open source PIM to use wxPython. Mitch Kapor’s Open Source Applications Foundation has emerged into blogspace, where Mitch says he’ll chronicle its progress. The first project: a powerful, easy-to-use personal information manager for Linux, Windows, and Mac. Mitch writes: … [Jon's Radio]
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Monday, January 21st, 2002
WebReference has another sample Radio chapter from the O”Reilly blogging book. This one is about the technology, the object database, scripting language, networking, content management, XML, SOAP and XML-RPC support, and upstreaming. Thanks! [Scripting News]
No Comments » - Posted in The Muse by jmiller
Monday, January 21st, 2002
BBC: Looking forward to a spam-free future. [Scripting News]
No Comments » - Posted in E-Publishing Explosion by jmiller
Monday, January 21st, 2002
Microsoft drives .Net into car dashboards. Company working on version of Windows CE for automobiles [InfoWorld: Top News]
No Comments » - Posted in Mobile Computing by jmiller
Monday, January 21st, 2002
Mary Jo Foley: “Goodbye, Web browser front end; hello, hefty smart client.” [Scripting News]
