Month: July 2005

Women leaving IT, bloggers warn. Caterina Fake (founder of Flickr) posts over at Misbehaving.net: Women leaving tech jobs in droves. And Antonella Pavese: Leaving IT. “I found that the IT culture, initially exciting and seemingly full of possibilities, in the long run does not fulfill its promises.” This is a real problem. I'm not sure… Continue reading Women leaving IT, bloggers warn

Shuttles Dogged by Aging Parts. As the space shuttles — now 13 to 21 years old — start to show their age, troubleshooting becomes more challenging and maintenance more crucial. [Wired News]

'Worrying gaps' in defence against further attacks. Government-funded report claims Britain relies too much on US, while war in Iraq was boost to al-Qaeda [The Scotsman]

Connecting wikis. What if we connect domain specific wikis, extract and republish summaries, reflect and collect feedback and enable OODA loops? So we have WikiPedia at the top of the knowledge foodchain – an evolving, open collection of smarts and pointers collecting… [Knowledge-at-work]

Marc says “Ahoy”. Marc Canter: “The inmates have taken over the asylum.” Marc's right. One of the things that happened last year when I started working with UserLand on Radio was talk of Radio 9. UserLand's a small company with some great products and Manila took priority over Radio. Now with major Manila development stable… Continue reading Marc says “Ahoy”

How Does Your Web Site Rank and What Can You Do About It?. You may want to share this web page with your business development people. It provides a quick way to see how your organization's web site ranks in the major search engines for particular keywords. All you do is type in the keywords… Continue reading How Does Your Web Site Rank and What Can You Do About It?

The Long Emergency. By tim Hot on the heels of last night's Jared Diamond talk, a link to this Rolling Stone article by James Howard Kunstler showed up on Dave Farber's IP list. Entitled The Long Emergency, it makes the argument that world oil production is very close to peaking, and what the consequences of… Continue reading The Long Emergency

Atom's debut. Tim Bray reports that Atom 1.0 is essentially done, pending some minor dotting of i's and crossing of t's, and points to this comparison between RSS 2.0 and Atom 1.0. The document does a fair job of highlighting the differences. … [Jon's Radio]

Backpack Dashboard Widget for OS X 10.4 Tiger. Use Backpack? Got a Mac? Got OS X 10.4 (Tiger)? Then you should check out this Backpack Dashboard Widget by Chipt Productions. Thanks guys! [Signal vs. Noise]

Mary Jo interviews father of C#. Mary Jo Foley has an interview with Anders Hejlsberg, the guy behind Borland's Turbo Pascal, Delphi, and now Microsoft's C# language.  [Scobleizer: Microsoft Geek Blogger]