Joy Blake

Joy's InfoWorld Watch

Turn up that radio! - (Found July 5, 2008 )

Lockergnome's Tech News Watch Isnt it fun when new technology gets approved for consumption Well I think so. Anyway, InfoWorld reports that software defined radios will be making their way forward here very soon. The FCC applauded the technology saying it this is great since it will allow users to share limited airspace without the problems of interference. I also think that this could have some real potential. I sounds like radio just made a comeback! "The Vanu Software Radio GSM Base Station..
http://channels.lockergnome.com/news/archives/20041119_turn_up_that_radio.phtml

A Rationale For ILM Not. - (Found July 5, 2008 )

NI3, Inc. This InforWorld article, entitled A Rationale for ILM, on ILM is nothing more than a weak attempt to perpetuate the fizzling ILM story. Don't get me wrong. I believe ILM is very important, yet extremely difficult to do today. The article is 12 paragraphs long. The first four paragraphs tell us how easy it is to set up a SAN these days. Five more paragraphs tell us how tape backups today don't fit into the ILM model. The remaining three paragraphs tell us an "ice age" in the industry...
http://www.xlogs.net/2004/11/22.html#a1516

Jon Udell On Speech Recognition. - (Found July 5, 2008 )

NI3, Inc. This post from Jon has rekindled my interest is speech recognition as a viable tool. I have not tried NaturallySpeaking. I've used ViaVoice in the past and it was just too time consuming to train. It also didn't allow you to transfer libraries it created for a specific speaker between computers. I wonder if NaturallySpeaking allows you to transfer the libraries it creates for a specific person between computers
http://www.xlogs.net/2004/11/22.html#a1515

I Love Radio - Speech Recognition - (Found July 5, 2008 )

Steve Holden's Weblog "Talking to Speech Recogition Robots" is a pretty interesting MP3. Speech recognitation has always been one of those areas of huge potential. Maybe it is getting better for customer service types of things but I have always been left a little disappointed when I try to use it on a personal computer. That being said ... there is a new version of Dragon Naturally Speaking (version 8 - I had version 7 on my laptop before the TabletPC) that Jon Udell over at Infoworld.com got.
http://sholden.typepad.com/weblog/2004/11/i_love_radio_sp.html

KnowNow shows off integration agility - (Found July 5, 2008 )

Review Column In the late 90s, CIOs bought lots of ERP and CRM systems and built out Web applications for everything from managing 401K updates to online retailing. Now, IT shops are trying to
http://www.reviewcolumn.com/archives/2004/11/2236/

20 IT mistakes to avoid - (Found July 5, 2008 )

Matt Fusfield's Blog InfoWorld has a great article entitled The top 20 IT mistakes to avoid. Among my favorites on the countdown are: Mismanaging software development - "Simply put, a great programmer is 100 times more valuable than a regular programmer." I think this goes for a lot of occupations, but is especially important in development and IT work; Developing Web Apps for IE only - the browser wars are (sorta) back. Not everyone uses IE; Clinging to prior solutions; Violating the KISS.
http://www.fus.net/2004/11/20-it-mistakes-to-avoid.html