Joy BlakeJoy's InfoWorld WatchI am from Missouri- (Found July 5, 2008 ) Keep an Open Eye Actually, I am from just across the Mississippi river in Alton, Illinois. But being so close to Missouri the "Show me" skeptical attitude rubbed off. And I am skeptical about any parnership with 1 Microsoft Way. Simply because Redmond has proved time after time to be inconstant, changeable, fair-weather friend, fickle, and machiavellian opportunistic - just as Burst, Sendo, IBM, Sybase and many, many others have all learned to their regret. Take Sybase. Sybase and Microsoft...http://www.theopensourcery.com/wordp1/index.php?p=154 Patton ..uhh Patent Attacks- (Found July 5, 2008 ) Keep an Open Eye General George C. Patton was no defensive minded tactician and I am now beginning to suspect neither is Redmond. They are losing bigtime to Linux in the server world. And so what Steven Vaughan-Nicholls suggested just a week ago and which looked somewhat stretched is now beginning to take shape. So be prepared for the Patent Attacks as Microsoft uses IP-Intellectual Property and patents to tilt, tilt the playing field in Windows Server 2003 favor. Besides the article linked...http://www.theopensourcery.com/wordp1/index.php?p=155 Study finds e-voting irregularities in Florida- (Found July 5, 2008 ) dan mitchell Voting irregularities in three Florida counties that used electronic voting machines may have awarded as many as 260,000 votes to President George Bush in this month's election, according to researchers at the University of California, Berkeley.http://www.danmitchell.org/#635 Oliver Rist: Noteworthy competition.- (Found July 5, 2008 ) Techskim--Tech News I'm Reading I panned OneNote upon its initial release in Microsoft Office 2003. "Beyond the tablet, what was the point of this thing" I asked acerbically. The folks in Redmond, of course, attempted to "re-educate" me. But even after several electrotherapy sessions with Slerma Hurtcolumnistoff, I still couldn't articulate any real value posed by OneNote. Of course, I couldn't articulate solid food, either, but that had nothing to do with it.http://techskim.blogspot.com/2004/11/oliver-rist-noteworthy-competition.html Jon Udell: Whatever happened to SVG- (Found July 5, 2008 ) Techskim--Tech News I'm Reading Remember SVG The acronym stands for Scalable Vector Graphics. In a posting to the xml-dev mailing list back in 2000, XML co-inventor Tim Bray said: "SVG is going to change the face of the Web." If that prediction had come true, we'd have used SVG to visualize the results of the recent election. Instead, as Macromedia's Chief Software Architect Kevin Lynch noted on his Weblog, the election was closely divided, but developers voted overwhelmingly to use Flash for...http://techskim.blogspot.com/2004/11/jon-udell-whatever-happened-to-svg.html Folksonomies- (Found July 5, 2008 ) satterlee Some links on the topic of folksonomy: Ideas Bazaar: emic and etic; Many2Many: Clay Shirky: canonical and a priori vs. contextual and a prosteriori; peterme.com: Peter Merholz; peer pressure; Designweenie: James Spahr: managing classification terms for portfolios; headshift: One thing's for sure: social tagging is a revelation for anybody who has sat through days of agonising taxonomy design with client organisations who are unsure of their users' real needs; Infoworld: Jon Udell:...http://www.satterlee.com/w/index.php?entry=entry041110-152754 Intro to XML and related technologies- (Found July 5, 2008 ) M. David Peterson XML Strengths and Weaknesses with DOM ASP and XSL. I sometimes forget that I have been working with XML and related technologies since way back in the day (circa 1996) when I first started working with the Site Builder Network and the Channel Definition Format they were responsible for promoting. According to Tim Bray CDF was the first XML-based implementation (the original XML Working Draft was published, as far as I know, on 2004.11.14) to hit the streets sending champagne...http://www.xsltblog.com/archives/2004/11/intro_to_xml_an.html Udell Cunningham Factories- (Found July 5, 2008 ) Bill Seitz' WebSeitzwikilog Jon Udell talked with Ward Cunningham and Jack Greenfield about the Software Factory concept, but unfortunately only has AudIo for now.http://webseitz.fluxent.com/wiki/z2004-11-22-UdellCunninghamFactories Study finds e-voting irregularities in Florida- (Found July 5, 2008 ) whoisgringo Researchers claim more than 130,000 votes may have been wrongly awarded to President Bush. So here's the deal, I am going to ask you to read this article and then tell others about it. We very seriously need to get this ball rolling now otherwise this kind of injustice will just keep happening over and over again. It is very important and that's why I'm asking you to share this article, post it on your website, print it out and show your folks and friends. It's not a conspiracy...http://whoisgringo.brendoman.com/archives/008887.html Google sees benefits in corporate blogging- (Found July 5, 2008 ) Robin Hopper's iUpload InSights InfoWorld aticle covers how Google's seen tremendous benefits from using blogs internally. A couple of the behind the firewall blog uses mentioned included: "...people keeping track of meeting notes, people sharing diagnostics information, people sharing snippets of code, as well as more personal uses, like letting co-workers know what they're thinking about and what they're up to..." I liked Gartner analyst, Allen Weiner's quote: "What is undeniable is that...http://hopper.iuplog.com/default.asp?ITEM=66578 |