MI5 map reveals extent of terrorist threat to Scotland. EXTREMIST groups have sympathisers and supporters in almost every corner of Britain including many parts of Scotland, anti-terrorist officials believe. [The Scotsman]

Home Emergency Preparedness. After an event like Hurricane Katrina many families are reviewing their emergency preparedness. We live in Manhattan, so we saw the same trend at about this time in the year 2001. But in the post-Katrina era there seems to be a greater emphasis on self-reliance. … [cloudtravel]

How knowledge is organized. David Weinberger,from the Berkman Center for Internet & Society, was on “All Things Considered” last night to speak about 'tagging.' 'Tagging' Lets Ordinary Users Organize the Internet .On the program he says.”a new tool is emerging on the Internet that helps us find things based on what we think they're about. [...]

Micro-ISV: From Vision to Reality. I'm very happy to announce that Apress is publishing my book, Micro-ISV: From Vision to Reality, which should be available in January. The book covers defining, developing and marketing a software application or web-based service while successfully building an Internet-centric self-funded company. I'm writing this book because while scores of [...]

Excellent. The sixth and final element of COFFEE Design is Excellent. What do I mean by excellent? Here's a simple definition: extremely good, outstanding. Excellent means you took the time to do it right. Excellent means you didn't settle for good… [Leave It Behind > Brian Bailey]

How To Write Sensible E-mail. Last week we gave you a list of tips to make your use of e-mail more professionally. Although we touched on it, one thing we didn't get to far into was how to write e-mail that conveys a message as accurately as possible. Luckily GTD blogger Merlin Mann over at [...]

Sending mail to users whose password's about to expire. Fellow MVP (and soon-to-be-published author of Essential Exchange Server 2003) Michael Smith has a cool script that will automatically send warning mail to users whose passwords are about to expire. Run it daily, and your mail-only users will never again be able to complain that their [...]

A conversation with Anders Hejlsberg and Paul Vick about LINQ. Today's podcast is from the Microsoft PDC, where Tom Yager and I spoke with Anders Hejlsberg and Paul Vick about the LINQ project. The whitepaper that was handed out at the conference is also available online, and it's required reading for, well, basically everybody who [...]

The A-Team Theory. As Forty Media grows both in popularity and in workload, I've been thinking about the makeup of the optimal web team — and I think I've figured it out. [The Return of Design - Posts]

Ethical Seach Engine Optimization. For business owner looking to promote a website, the search for an SEO can be bewildering due to the widely-varying ranges of experience, knowledge, practice, and (most importantly) ethics. [The Return of Design - Posts]