Month: December 2003

With Roadside Data, Better Forecast for Snow Removal. A prototype software system combines data from specially created weather forecasts and in-road sensors to recommend when the snow trucks should be dispatched. By Ian Austen. [New York Times: Technology]

Backing Up Files Shifts to Automatic When a Server Moves In. Devices that can back up data on a PC range from the humble, increasingly rare diskette to high-capacity DVD recorders. But to Richard Mandeberg, the chief executive of Mirra, they all share a common flaw. By Ian Austen. [New York Times: Technology]

ABA Journal – The Top Ten in Tech. The new ABA Journal has an article on top legal technology trends. I'm one of the people interviewed – sort of the legal near-equivalent of having your picture on the cover of the Rolling Stone. Good article. [DennisKennedy.blog]

Beating Information Overload with News Aggregators. My most recent article in Law Practice Magazine attempts to describe the benefits, power, utility and coolness of news aggregators and RSS feeds in plain, non-technical language. Here's my view on why this stuff is so amazingly cool. [DennisKennedy.blog]

Hijacked Computers Responsible For One-Third Of All Spam. These kinds of article make you wonder how lucrative the spam business really must be and serve as a reminder that good computer security practices are a social responsibility. [DennisKennedy.blog]

News.Com: Skype's VoIP ambitions. Q&A with Niklas Zennstrom, Skype. What we're saying is that telephony is just an application. You can use this software application that does all the call setup and routing, which traditionally has been done by big company switches. Telephony is software. It's not big software in a centralized system. [Tomalak's Realm]

Say Truck Stop Hot Spot Three Times Fast. Truckers find hotspots invaluable as aid to life on the road: Truckers are using Wi-Fi hotspots as extensions of their truck cab as the service rapidly pops up at truck stops across the U.S. It's a natural offering for the truck stops, which already provided Internet access… Continue reading Say Truck Stop Hot Spot Three Times Fast

Roy Disney Quits: Corporate Governance Fails at Disney. The striking thing about Roy Disney's letter of resignation is how studiously he ignores the real problem. This is not to say that the management issues he identifies are not genuine concerns, but merely to suggest that they are symptoms of the underlying root cause. This is not… Continue reading Roy Disney Quits: Corporate Governance Fails at Disney

New Scientist.  UV light can mitigate “sick building syndrome.”  It is interesting how little work is being done to make work environments better. [John Robb's Weblog]

Another Niche Filled in Libraryland. And speaking of library-related blogs, New Library Career Blog Available! “Sarah and Rachel writes 'Sarah and Rachel (the Library Job People) announce the creation of a brand new site, Beyond the Job, a career development blog for information professionals. Find calls for contributors, job search advice, articles on the profession,… Continue reading Another Niche Filled in Libraryland