Month: August 2003

Costs of Using Dated Technology. Using outdated software is a BA-A-A-D idea for law firms. I have a few more points to add to a good Law.com article on this topic. [DennisKennedy.blog]

Bush Confident Congress Will Expedite Energy Bill. President Bush said today that a conference committee would begin work within 20 days on a final package of energy legislation. By Brian Knowlton with Mark J. Prendergast. [New York Times: NYT HomePage]

Blair Aide Denies He Embellished Intelligence on Iraqi Arms. LONDON, Aug. 19 Alastair Campbell, Prime Minister Tony Blair's powerful communications and strategy chief, denied today that he had embellished government intelligence information on Iraqi weapons that he is accused of having By Warren Hoge. [New York Times: NYT HomePage]

News.Com: Microsoft's in-house sociologist. Q&A with Marc Smith. Microsoft has a big investment in online communities, and has not had until recently many tools to enhance that investment. What Microsoft wants around communities is what every enterprise does, which is a peer-support, knowledge-management application. [Tomalak's Realm]

How to deal with broken feeds. Tim Bray writes about how to deal with broken PEAW feeds: “I would absolutely require basic XML well-formedness.” Me, I would absolutely love it if I, as an aggregator developer, could require well-formedness. In other words, if a feed isn’t well-formed, then NetNewsWire would not parse it and display… Continue reading How to deal with broken feeds

FTC Chairman Criticizes Anti Spam Legislation. CNET is running a story stating that the chairman of the Federal Trade Commission today criticized the current crop of anti-spam legislation initiatives stating that although well intentioned, they “will do little to solve the current spam problems” and could be even “less useful” than existing laws the FTC… Continue reading FTC Chairman Criticizes Anti Spam Legislation

What's in a Name?. FC Now reader Tom Asacker asks, “What does Fast Company mean again?” Our founding editors, Bill Taylor and Alan Webber, expand on how we consider “fast companies” in the June 2003 editor's letter. We also offer 10 make-or-break questions you We also offer 10 make-or-break questions you can use to gauge your… Continue reading What's in a Name?

Placing blame and the power of geeks. So it's becoming clear that the power outage started in Ohio – but they're not sure at this point exactly where, how and who is responsible. A really interesting thing was said in this article, by a Michael Gent, head of the North American Electric Reliability Council.  In the ensuing… Continue reading Placing blame and the power of geeks

Information Architecture for Designers book site. The book site has been launched for Peter Van Dijck's Information Architecture for Designers: Structuring Websites for Business Success (link to pre-order from Amazon), complete with table of contents, sample chapter, and templates for producing IA deliverables. Congratulations, Peter. [ia/ – information architecture news]