Use the blog, Luke. “The collective future of blogs lies not in dethroning the New York Times — but in becoming a force that can make sense of the Web's infinity of links.” [Salon.com] Although I've already referenced it a couple of times, I finally had a chance to sit down and really read through [...]

BBC.  Sharon loses crucial party vote.  The Likud party votes against any Palestinian state.  This is insane.  [John Robb's Radio Weblog]

Strategies for Categorizing Categories. According to this User Interface Engineering study: ” the number of pages that a user visited before they put something into their cart was inversely proportional to purchasing. The more pages they visited, the less they bought. The study was based on 5 e-commerce sites where 44 users shopped for a [...]

BBC News | UK | Stopping the book thieves. As well as combining a security tag and virtual barcode in one piece of technology, this makes it possible for a book to “remember” each transaction, from publisher to wholesaler, retailer to customer and (if the book is sold second-hand) beyond. Similarly, books borrowed from libraries [...]

Emerging judicial blogspace. There is momentum here, an emerging judicial blogspace, in part because lawyers are naturals at a basic weblogging skill: taking an “information feed” and finding the category where that information will best fit.  I agree with Ernie, we need more courts and judges and public offices to deploy XML/RSS feeds.  We can [...]

Texas Judges Corral Some Technology…. “Judges in Collin County Texas have pooled their resources to buy a domain (texasjudge.com) where they can maintain Web pages for their individual courtrooms. [via Law.com] By the links on Judge Curt Henderson's site, it looks like eleven of them have taken the plunge.  Henderson's Web site, www.texasjudge.com/henderson, provides docket [...]

Open Source Icons. There’s lots of free code out there—lots of code that you can learn from or contribute to or adapt for your own apps. It’s totally cool. I myself have even released some. Maybe I’m thick, but what I can’t find is open source icons. These days OS X apps are supposed to [...]

World According to jud: How to setup a wirele…. “I use a Linksys WAP11, and a Hyerlink Technologies 8DB omni-directional antenna mounted outside. I am looking for a repeater solution so that I can reach about 20 other homes. Please send me mail if you know if a good solution.” [I'd like to do this [...]

Radio UserLand : Multi-Author Weblog Tool. “A multi-authored weblog has posts that appear on the home page which are written by a group of people, instead of by a single author. The Multi-Author Weblog Tool makes it easy to use Radio to create a multi-authored weblog.” [Archipelago]

Seeing Red. Damn you Joss! You put Willow and Tara back together again, and then you did this? Grrr. This week's Buffy was a harsh episode. [More Like This WebLog]