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Guest Host: Faces of Innovation. During my week as guest host here at FC Now, I've tried to amplify, explain, or improvise on the Ten Faces of Innovation from my new book that appears in the current issue of Fast Company. Those posts were mixed in with the prolific blogging of other Fast Company editorial… Continue reading Guest Host: Faces of Innovation

Responding to a security breach. InfoWorld sister publication NetworkWorld has a feature on steps to take when your network has fallen prey to an attacker. Responding to a security breach looks at ways in which organizations reacted once they knew a problem had occurred, including good approaches to handling the situation, as well some of… Continue reading Responding to a security breach

The Price of Compatibility?. Business Week tech columnist Stephen Wildstrom piped in on the Windows vs. Mac OS security debate with one of the most reasonable explanations I have heard yet. In “Why Worms Shun Apple's OS X,” he writes: “OS X offers inherently better security for several reasons. The most important is that it… Continue reading The Price of Compatibility?

Shipping Windows Vista, When?. As I've blogged before, Windows Vista's development progress is closely aligned with Windows Server 2003 R2. Simply put: It was from clean server code that Microsoft began earnest Windows Vista development. I would expect Windows Vista Beta 2 (the build that supposedly will be publicly distributed) to be available around the… Continue reading Shipping Windows Vista, When?

MySQL 5 Released. The long awaited MySQL 5 has been released. New to this significantly update are views, triggers, stored procedures, and more. I've been using MySQL 5 since very early beta days, and it has been solid and stable (and every bug I reported has been fixed). Download your copy now. [Ben Forta's Blog]

Something Rotten in AdSense. Google AdSense is a system for web publishers of all sizes, from big newspapers to tiny bloggers. They sign up with Google to place a small box full of text ads on their site. You've probably seen it, but if you haven't, check out Michael's techInterview site for an example. Advertisers… Continue reading Something Rotten in AdSense

FBI Abuses of the USA Patriot Act. Since the Patriot Act was passed, administration officials have repeatedly assured the public and Congress that there have not been improper uses of that law. As recently as April 27, 2005, Attorney General Alberto Gonzales testified that “there has not been one verified case of civil liberties abuse.”… Continue reading FBI Abuses of the USA Patriot Act

Automated Tagcloud Tool – TagCloud.  TagCloud is a service that can create a weighted list of tags (or tag cloud) based on an RSS feed. You can then add this list to your Web site. TagCloud is an automated Folksonomy tool. Essentially, TagCloud searches any number of RSS feeds you specify, extracts keywords from the… Continue reading Automated Tagcloud Tool – TagCloud

The general-purpose CMS (pipe dreams, part II). As t approaches zero, people will realize that many types of software are non-sensical in their generalized form. I believe the time has come to mark a date in the not too distant future for celebrating the death of the general-purpose content management system. In many ways, I… Continue reading The general-purpose CMS (pipe dreams, part II)

Life after Radio. After much wailing and gnashing of teeth I not only have my entire weblog archive in MySQL with all the entities playing nice (although much of the older HTML needs tidying up somewhat) but also have Rails rendering archive pages to disk which will honour the Radio permalinks. This is actually a… Continue reading Life after Radio