Joy BlakeJoy's InfoWorld WatchOpen Source or Outsource- (Found July 5, 2008 ) Linux Today One of the proverbial back stories of IT operations has always been the battle between the "suits" and the 'techies.' From the techie point of view, the hapless but disturbingly powerful suits are the business guys who put more thought into picking out hundred-dollar silk ties at Nordstrom than they put into million-dollar IT decisions. Worse, the suits gravitate towards outsourcing and service firms that implement big-dollar solutions. Many techies start on the other end of the...http://linuxtoday.com/news_story.php3?ltsn=2004-10-24-002-26-OP-BZ MMS Interoperability- (Found July 5, 2008 ) Dana Blankenhorn's Moore's Lore U.S. MMS interoperability is coming. This is something people in other countries take for granted. You have a picture or audio file, you want to get it to someone who uses another network, you send it. They play it. No problem. (This particular image of MMS interoperability in action is from Russia.) That's not the way it works here, where each network has its own technical standards, its own software standards, and its own bureaucratic gatekeepers. Amazingly,...http://www.corante.com/mooreslore/archives/026752.html Digital Gotham- (Found July 5, 2008 ) The .NET Sweatshop (v2) If youve been around the Microsoft architecture "scene" (OK, its not a scene, but I dont know what to call it), you are familiar with the Digital Metropolis metaphor. Courtesy of Pat Helland (quite possibly the funniest man at Microsoft), it paints enterprise computing in comparison to a typical large city in the 1800s. The railroads have just empowered the delivery of manufactured goods throughout the entire country (andor continent for Europe). Still, the economic...http://weblogs.asp.net/sandyk/archive/2004/10/20/245076.aspx Hackable Media- (Found July 5, 2008 ) The Life of Bryan Let's face it, most of us are hackers - but before anyone reports me to the authorities I don't mean 'hacker' as in some malicious soul who enjoys wreaking havoc by using technology to commit criminal acts , but rather 'hacker', as in someone who enjoys using technology to create - things. Some of us choose to hack in a programming language, while others might prefer an application and nearly all of us might perform a little inadvertant hacking while just surfing the web. An...http://bryan.nmadness.com/2004/10/hackable-media.html Groklaw Interview with Sarah Deutsch, Esq. on RIAA v. Verizon- (Found July 5, 2008 ) Groklaw As soon as I heard about the Supreme Court decision in RIAA v. Verizon, Inc., I asked Sarah Deutsch, vice president and associate general counsel for Verizon and their lead attorney on the case, if she would be willing to be interviewed by Groklaw, because I knew you would be interested in learning more about this important case and Verizon's victory. In case you didn't read about it, here's a bit from Wired's coverage: "The Supreme Court on Tuesday let stand a lower court decision...http://www.groklaw.net/article.php?story=20041028172616656 VIA Two Core Plans- (Found July 5, 2008 ) Tech ETA InfoWorld has news on VIA's plans to put two chip cores on one CPU package. Just to make things clear both cores aren't in the same silicon chip, it'll be two seperate cores on one package. The approach is strange and will no doubt increase the likelyhood of cracked or chipped cores if they aren't protected by a heatspreader but it's an interesting approach.http://www.techeta.com/archives/001201.html RIAA files 750 new file-trading lawsuits- (Found July 5, 2008 ) Neowin.net The Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA) on Thursday announced it has filed 750 new lawsuits against alleged file-traders using peer-to-peer (P-to-P) software. The 750 new lawsuits were against "John Doe" defendants not yet identified by the RIAA. In addition to those new lawsuits, the RIAA filed another 213 lawsuits against named defendants who declined or ignored RIAA efforts to settle their cases. Among the 750 new lawsuits were 25 P-to-P users on 13 university...http://www.neowin.net/comments.php?id=25241&category=main Application Wikis: Powering the 'Big Red Button'- (Found July 5, 2008 ) Scott McMullan: ehick Bob Glushko, director of UC Berkeley's Center for Document Engineering, has a saying that goes something like, "Just take your application's XML schema, give it to the Platform, and press the big red button. Done, application created." That was the vision behind the Center's "XML Application Platform" project I led last year. It's model-based application nirvana, where the data model is explicit in the Schema, and through annotations and maybe some additional metadata, an..http://scottmcmullan.typepad.com/blog/2004/10/jotspot_the_big.html Pervasive integration requires pervasive intermediation.- (Found July 5, 2008 ) Nick Gall's Weblog Jon Udell makes a great point about pervasive intermediation. His basic point is the architecture of SOAP processing model is necessary to generalize and extend the ad hoc intermediation architecture of HTTP, which has proved so essential to the web's scalability and flexibility. This is a fundamental point about SOAP intermediaries that I have been trying to drive home as well. This year's METAmorphosis conference has the theme pervasive integration, which leads to the...http://radio.weblogs.com/0126951/2004/10/28.html#a150 Wat leest jouw RSS-abonnee nog meer- (Found July 5, 2008 ) Brain Drain Jon Udell heeft een interessante log geschreven over wat de favoriete websites zijn van zijn RSS-abonnees (Bloglines). In Bloglines is het namelijk mogelijk om te zien hoeveel mensen er op jouw feed geabonneerd zijn. Als deze personen een publiek profiel hebben, dan kan je er weer achter komen op welke websites (RSS-feeds) zij geabonneerd zijn. Altijd boeiend om te zien! "As Bloglines continues to grow, its subscription data becomes more interesting. Yesterday, while demonstrating..http://www.witsel.nl/braindrain/2004/10/wat-leest-jouw-rss-abonnee-nog-meer.html |