Month: June 2003

Scout Portal Toolkit: Open Source Digital Library Application. Since I blogged the Gassie presentation earlier, I thought I should mention one of the applications she chose for the digital project. Scout Portal Toolkit is an open source (requires PHP and MySQL) application that allows an organization to maintain a library of resources via a web… Continue reading Scout Portal Toolkit: Open Source Digital Library Application

MIT Technology Review: Spam Wars. Despite deep divisions among this assemblage on who has the best tools for eradicating spam, there's broad consensus on one point: if there's one thing worse than a piece of junk e-mail, it's the prospect that a spam filter will stop a legitimate message from reaching its recipient. [Tomalak's Realm]

Crypto-Gram: The Risks of Cyberterrorism. Even during the war in Iraq, which was supposed to increase the risk dramatically, nothing happened. The impending cyberwar was a big dud. Don't congratulate our vigilant security, though; the alarm was caused by a misunderstanding of both the attackers and the attacks. [Tomalak's Realm]

Microsoft Offers Improved Developer Tools. Fueling its desire to keep code writers in its camp, the software giant releases updated toolkits for .NET and Windows Embedded systems. [Internet Product News]

Interview: Jeffrey Zeldman on Cause Campaigns. We interview the author of “Designing With Web Standards” about his banner campaign idea, his new book, and the Microsoft browser announcement. By Andy King.  [WebReference News]

UK Villages (Wide)Band Together. Towns and villages in the UK are skipping the wires, and using fixed wireless Internet: England has some spread-out communities, and it might or might not ever be cost effective to try to deliver IP over phone lines with DSL or other methods. Fixed wireless is here now, it's not overly… Continue reading UK Villages (Wide)Band Together

Hotels Don't See IT Return from Wi-Fi. Hotels like Starwood chain not seeing the IT return from deploying Wi-Fi: It makes sense that Wi-Fi deployments could help run hotels, which have many mobile workers in their confines, as well as provide access to customers. This story says no, ain't the case, at least for Starwood,… Continue reading Hotels Don't See IT Return from Wi-Fi

New Clients From Law Firm Web Sites?. According to Touchpoint Metrics, “Seventeen of 30 leading law firms researched average over nine new clients annually whose first awareness of their firm was their Web site!” Not exactly a big surprise, but good to see some hard numbers on the subject. The company has more interesting results.… Continue reading New Clients From Law Firm Web Sites?

Christopher Morley: “There is only one success – to be able to spend your life in your own way.” [Adam Curry: Adam Curry's Weblog]

RSS Kerfluffle. Dave Winer says that MoveableType's RSS support is “funky”. Aaron Swartz offers an extensive and sensible survey of the question. I still don't understand the issue, or why it matters. I'm running a major development effort that supports RSS. I don't care about personalities; I just want our RSS to work with everyone… Continue reading RSS Kerfluffle