Author: Vince Kimball

Seafood Watch Program. “A Consumer's Guide to Sustainable Seafood: Monterey Bay Aquarium's Seafood Watch Program offers information to help you choose seafood that's good for you, good for the oceans and information on overfishing, bycatch, aquaculture and habitat damage.” [xBlog: The visual thinking weblog | XPLANE]

Verisign Seal. “On November 4, 2003, VeriSign announced a new 'trust enhancing' seal which they built using Macromedia's Flash technology. This new seal makes a connection to their server and displays, in a dynamic text field, the name of the company that bought the certificate. The seal then invites you to click the seal to… Continue reading Verisign Seal

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