Jeff Nichols: TechItems of professional interest.(Untitled)- December 12, 2002 Bloggers and Loggers This is pretty wild. A blog originating from the top of a tree in Nocal, where the author is protesting the cutting of old growth forest by camping out in the canopy. Not your usual "the weather today is fine..." personal blog, to be sure. Worth following.http://radio.weblogs.com/0110445/categories/workJournal/2002/12/12.html#a439 (Untitled)- December 12, 2002 Met two ladies yesterday who share a job, and it was a surreal experience. They've been doing this for quite a while - each one works three days, and they overlap on Wednesdays. The cool thing is their job is a knowledge worker kind of job, not answering phones or assembling widgets. They've developed all sorts of little methods to transfer knowledge and context to each other at the weekly handoff. But the weird part was talking with them, together. They always say "...we think this...", or...http://radio.weblogs.com/0110445/categories/workJournal/2002/12/12.html#a438 (Untitled)- December 12, 2002 Something's been wrong with the Userland news aggregator lately. Nuts. I've come to depend on its distillation of things that interest me. Back to manual surfing.http://radio.weblogs.com/0110445/categories/workJournal/2002/12/12.html#a437 (Untitled)- December 11, 2002 Lots of good news in Silicon Valley News. My favorites: Spammer gets Slashdotted Major Apple buzz Related, I met a guy yesterday who has the same setup as me - a Winblows laptop for working with clients, and a Mac OSX box for himself. At least it makes sense to one other person.http://radio.weblogs.com/0110445/categories/workJournal/2002/12/11.html#a435 (Untitled)- December 11, 2002 Jon Udell: Scripting Groove Web Services. Scripting News For all those who say web services aren't real or ready for prime time, read Jon Udell. This is the future of enterprise computing, period. It's great when you see the future so clearly. Doesn't happen often.http://radio.weblogs.com/0110445/categories/workJournal/2002/12/10.html#a433 (Untitled)- December 11, 2002 Looks like I've got the OK to run with Groove as the collaboration tool for the new project. Cool. Now if the tool lives up to the hype...http://radio.weblogs.com/0110445/categories/workJournal/2002/12/10.html#a431 (Untitled)- December 9, 2002 In between phone calls and real work, am attending the Supernova conference by proxy, tuning into Dave and Doc's real-time blogs of the proceedings. It's not as good as being there, but it's a damn site better than reading the post-conference articles. Better, I can check the blogs tonight when I get to my hotel - I can "attend" in timeshifted mode. Feels like Tivo.http://radio.weblogs.com/0110445/categories/workJournal/2002/12/09.html#a429 (Untitled)- December 9, 2002 Sodomites overrun Amazon.com The Register I had to read this just for the headline. You gotta love The Register. There's a more serious story here for geeks. Personalization engines are dumb, really dumb. They make recommendations with way too little data. It's as if you met someone wearing a green jacket and assumed you knew about their religion, tastes in wine, and sports affiliations because you know those things about someone else with a green jacket.http://radio.weblogs.com/0110445/categories/workJournal/2002/12/09.html#a428 (Untitled)- December 8, 2002 There's a new trend out there, driven by innovation and integration of wireless networking and digital imaging. Consider: This camera from Ricoh, combining digital camera, web server, and WLAN link (via John Robb) This camera, setting a new size record (small) and truly cool new imaging technique The millions of phonecams now in use by teenagers and geeks, used for IM-like communications via images All this JPEG content being driven onto the web will be the replacement for the bandwidth demand.http://radio.weblogs.com/0110445/categories/workJournal/2002/12/08.html#a426 (Untitled)- December 3, 2002 MS servers cheaper to operate than Linux! IDC has sold their soul with this report, just out. They key is that it's a "sponsored report", meaning that MS paid for the research and the foregone conclusion. I remember the TCO wars of 1994-1995, wherein NT replaced Novell as the defacto network operating system platform in corporate America. This time the MS foe is a little tougher - a federation of companies with IBM at the front. It'll be an interesting fight.http://radio.weblogs.com/0110445/categories/workJournal/2002/12/03.html#a417 |