Joy Blake

Joy's InfoWorld Watch

Group Tallies More Than 1,100 E-voting Glitches - (Found July 5, 2008 )

Vote Watch U.S. voters calling in to a toll-free number had reported more than 1,100 separate incidents of problems with electronic voting machines and other voting technologies by late Tuesday during the nationwide election. In more than 30 reported cases, when voters reviewed their choices before finalizing them, an electronic voting machine indicated they had voted for a different candidate. E-voting backers called the number of reported problems minor in the context of almost 50 million m...
http://votewatch.blogspot.com/2004/11/group-tallies-more-than-1100-e-voting.html

Wort des Tages: infoglut - (Found July 5, 2008 )

IB Weblog Mit infoglut ist selbstverstndlich nicht das "Glhen" von Information, sondern die "Schwemme" (bersetzung von engl. "glut"), also z.B. der berhmte information overload gemeint. Wer sich an Frank Herberts Dune erinnert, erinnert sich vielleicht auch an das Wort. Wer nicht kann z.B. hier nachlesen. (via ResourceShelf). Auch interessant: RSS Killed the Infoglut Star.
http://weblog.ib.hu-berlin.de/index.php?p=1193

Blog Fatigue Virus Takes Hold - (Found July 5, 2008 )

Paul Kedrosky I see that various people in the blogosphere are getting a case of blog fatigue. Somewhat like influenza, its symptoms are tiredness and a general feeling of lassitude leading to required rest. While the kind of rest required during influenza is mostly bed rest, blog fatigue usually requires time away from the keyboard. Why does blog fatigue happen There are likely as many reasons as there are bloggers, but chief among them is the insidious way that blogging goes from a diversion..
http://paul.kedrosky.com/archives/000731.html

Customers who bought this book might also like... - (Found July 5, 2008 )

WorldChanging Calling all bibliophiles with online public library access: my favourite new research tool is Jon Udell's LibraryLookup bookmarklet. Once installed on your browser, it allows you to use Amazon's search and recommendation power to find interesting books, and then immediately jump to your local library's site, checking ISBN matches to see if they have a book in their system. If you're lucky, they may let you order it to the closest branch. (Note: You'll need to figure out what...
http://www.worldchanging.com/archives/001542.html

Fighting Spam By... Doing The Same Thing - (Found July 5, 2008 )

Techdirt Corporate Intelligence A panel discussion concerning how to stop spam at the Next Generation Networks conference started out by saying that the fight against spam had not been strategic enough. In other words, the responses weren't really targeted at the root of the problem. So, what's the more strategic solution Actually, the suggestions given in the article sound exactly like what's already being done: filtering, tell people not to respond to spam and laws that punish spammers. How..
http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20041103/159209_F.shtml

Security event standards, from syslog and SNMP to XML - (Found July 5, 2008 )

SecureWebServices.Org An interesting article in InfoWorld on security event management, with a Tivoli Vice President saying "day we open Web services interfaces to these security devices, everything becomes a lot easier".
http://www.securewebservices.org/archives/61_Security_event_standards,_from_syslog_and_SNM...

SCO develops second thoughts about Groklaw alternative - (Found July 5, 2008 )

Buys Inc. Attorneys Nearly one month after promising to launch the Web site, which was to provide information on SCO's various legal disputes, a number of undisclosed issues are causing the company to have second thoughts on the project, said Janielle Fernandes, a spokeswoman for the Lindon, Utah software vendor. "It's still up for debate whether the Web site will ever go up," she said.
http://blog.buys.co.za/2004_10_31_buysinc_archive.html#109941128055895369

Hackers reopen stolen code store with Cisco wares - (Found July 5, 2008 )

Iggy Uncensored TheSource Code Club offering code for Cisco's PIX firewall software for $24,000 Source Code Club reappeared online Monday, using messages to online security discussion groups to announce that it was back in business. The group is using e-mail and messages posted in a Usenet group to communicate with customers and receive orders for the source code of several security products, including Cisco's PIX 6.3.1 firewall and intrusion detection system (IDS) software from Enterasys...
http://iggy.gnomeblog.com/blog/_archives/2004/11/4/174792.html

Dragon NaturallySpeaking 8: - (Found July 5, 2008 )

Peter Van Dijck his review (especially the excellent show&tell demonstration in Flash) shows how far this stuff has come. Maybe we could use software like this to produce transcripts of podcasts It wouldnt be perfect, but it would be good enough for Google, or for people to have a quick scan of whats been said.
http://poorbuthappy.com/ease/archives/2004/11/04/2163/

Electoral Ebb & Flow - (Found July 5, 2008 )

Jim Zellmer's View From Madison Jon Udell put together a great time representation of a useful NY Times infographic on the electoral college results, from 1940 to 2000. Flash Quicktime Here's the source graphic.
http://www.zmetro.com/archives/000999.php