Chandler for Higher Ed Gets a Go Ahead. We recently presented our vision of a version of Chandler, called Westwood, for higher education to a consortium of schools… [Mitch Kapor's Weblog]
Month: May 2003
Broadband Growth Seen Slowing
Broadband Growth Seen Slowing. High-speed Internet adoption, although still steadily on the rise, is not growing at the torrid rates of the recent past, according to a new study. One reason: most experienced Net users already have signed up. By Joanna Glasner. [Wired News]
Top 10 Tenets Of Principled Computing
Top 10 Tenets Of Principled Computing. Top 10 Tenets Of Principled Computing I am not a Microsoft hater, Macintosh zealot, or Linux nerd. I do, however, believe in principled computing. My law office uses multiple operating systems and multiple applications, some open source, some not. I care more about how my data is formatted and… Continue reading Top 10 Tenets Of Principled Computing
Relation Browsers: a GUI for IAs
Relation Browsers: a GUI for IAs. Garry Marchioni and Ben Brunk have been working on GUIs for visualizing nodes and relations in web sites – what they call a Relation Browser. They've published a paper on their work about the quest for a General Relation Browser that provides a picture of IA tools of the… Continue reading Relation Browsers: a GUI for IAs
Connections to Broadband Increase 50%
Connections to Broadband Increase 50%. The number of American households that connect to the Internet via high-speed, or broadband, connections grew by 50 percent in the last year. By Susan Stellin. [New York Times: Technology]
BBC on Disney's Celebration town
BBC on Disney's Celebration town. Very good BBC Radio documentary on Celebration, the New Urbanist town that Disney built adjascent to Walt Disney World. How would the world look if it were run by the Disney corporation? In the alligator-infested swamps of Florida is a town built and founded by Disney. Celebration was founded in… Continue reading BBC on Disney's Celebration town
As Google Goes, So Goes the Nation
As Google Goes, So Goes the Nation. A high place in Google's search rankings can have considerable value for commercial sites and a lot of clout in the marketplace of ideas. By Geoffrey Nunberg. [New York Times: Technology]
Welcome to the mini-bubble
Welcome to the mini-bubble. I don't have extensive evidence for this claim, but it sure feels like we're in a mini-bubble. (I'd call it a recovery, but I'm not sure it is one.) At least here, in Silicon Valley, it sure seems like things are starting to turn around–in some industries. There are several tech… Continue reading Welcome to the mini-bubble
Self-Destructing DVD's Coming Soon
Slashdot | Self-Destructing DVD's Coming Soon. BrianH writes “Looks like a close cousin of everybody's favorite self-destructing video format is making a comeback. Four years after Circuit City and its Hollywood backers pulled the plug on the self-expiring DVD concept, FlexPlay Technologies has introduced the EZ-D…a 48-hour self-expiring DVD disk. The difference? This time around… Continue reading Self-Destructing DVD's Coming Soon
Yahoo!'s Jeremy Zawodny Claims MySQL 4.X Rocks
Yahoo!'s Jeremy Zawodny Claims MySQL 4.X Rocks. Yahoo! Inc.'s MySQL expert Jeremy Zawodny applauds MySQL Version 4.X in a March 10 entry on his personal weblog called “MySQL Full-Text Search Rocks My World.” In it, Jeremy describes how the full-text search feature in MySQL 4.0.10 came to his rescue and made his life “way easier.”… Continue reading Yahoo!'s Jeremy Zawodny Claims MySQL 4.X Rocks