Month: September 2001

Robots Scour WTC Wreckage. Robots that can flatten themselves and change shapes are being used to scour the wreckage of collapsed World Trade Center towers. By Leander Kahney. [Wired News]

What Future War Looks Like. A renowned author of books on terrorism speculates on what the first war of the 21st century may look like. Interview by Declan McCullagh and Ben Polen. [Wired News]

WSJ.  Video conferences surged last week. Companies that provide conferencing services say usage swelled 10% to 50% last week, as companies stepped up efforts to communicate with their employees — including those temporarily stranded following the attacks in New York and Washington.  Companies that deliver audio, video or computer data to users' personal computers also… Continue reading WSJ.  Video conferences surged last week.

Larry Staton is contributing to the superopendirectory with a directory of legal resources. [John Robb's Radio Weblog]

Jerusalem Post.  Mossad warned US of major attacks. Mossad officials traveled to Washington last month to warn the CIA and the FBI that a cell of up to 200 terrorists was planning a major operation, according to a report in the Sunday Telegraph here yesterday. [John Robb's Radio Weblog]

Confessions of an Accidental Programmer. O'Reilly: Confessions of an Accidental Programmer “Deciding that it was better to light a candle than curse the darkness, in 1998 I created a novice-level tutorial called The Beginners Guide to CGI Scripting with Perl. The response was gratifying; the site seemed to strike a chord with other accidental programmers,… Continue reading Confessions of an Accidental Programmer

An Introduction to the Semantic Web. Ah, a link having nothing to do with terrorists, or war. How about an introduction to The Semantic Web? [More Like This WebLog]

That Darned Content 2. In our previous column we showed you how to tastefully present long blocks of content in your Web designs. But what do you do when you don't have enough content? Well, you can either find more, or get creative; and our own Wendy Peck discusses both approaches. 0917 [WebReference News]

CIO: That's the Ticket. Michael Schrage. Organizations that truly want to change in ways that matter surely need managers and leaders–but they also need tour guides. A firm that wants to become more innovative shouldn't be hiring and acquiring innovators or going off to “innovation classes”… [Tomalak's Realm]

Apple retail store opens in International Plaza, Tampa, FL [MacNN]