Author: Vince Kimball

Text Mining: Making Connections to Help People & Business. Great article in NYTimes (free registrated required) related to information retrieval, categorization/classification, and use. “Digging for Nuggets of Wisdom” Marti Hearst is quoted regarding information vizualization, text mining, and such. Most of the focus was on retrieval in homogenous content such as Medline. The reason why… Continue reading Text Mining: Making Connections to Help People & Business

Apple: iTunes, iPod Updates. Apple offers iTunes for Windows, with iPod Software 2.1 and a revamped iTunes Music Store, while Belkin accessories enable iPod voice recording and read media cards. Then there are the promotional deals…. [MacInTouch]

Bittersweet Celebrations for a Pope and His 25-Year Reign. Pope John Paul II today marked a milestone that drew scores of cardinals and tens of thousands of worshipers. By Frank Bruni. [New York Times: NYT HomePage]

In the aggregators session on Day 2 at BloggerCon I promised Jenny Levine that I would write up my plan to empower librarians and scholars to build distributed Yahoo-like directories, with the key ingredient that makes the Web work so well — competition. The idea is for geeks and librarians to work together, a dream… Continue reading Untitled

Ethan Diamond interview. Ethan Diamond interview: One of the principals of Oddpost has some great quotes here on reducing visual clutter: “We systematically eliminated every non-data pixel from the screen. For example, if a message header is bold, you know that the message… [JD on MX]

Seductive Electronic Gadgets Are Soon Forgotten. People are buying many more electronic gadgets in a well-intentioned bout of self-improvement, but many of the gadgets are rarely used, if at all. By Katie Hafner. [New York Times: Technology]

American Mobile Thoughts. Here's my final thought: I read just a little while ago that the reason GSM gets a bad rap in the U.S. is because of its inability to penetrate buildings, and it's true. The higher frequencies that American GSM uses (1900Mhz) is really not anywhere near as accessible as GSM in Europe.… Continue reading American Mobile Thoughts

Microsoft's Monthly “Critical” Patches.  Last week, Microsoft announced a plan to move to monthly dispatch of updates. Today, the software giant issued five patches, four of which rate “critical,” which is the highest ranking. The updates are the first in Microsoft's monthly group of consolidated patch releases. Additionally, Microsoft issued two security alerts for Exchange… Continue reading Microsoft's Monthly “Critical” Patches

Domain Mapping. Domain mapping is the process of pointing a registered domain name, such as www.yourdomain.com, to your TypePad weblog or photo album. This is more than domain forwarding, because your permalinks and URL will contain the address of your domain instead … [Everything TypePad!]

First Joel on Software Book of the Month. The imperfection of design is the theme of October's Book of the Month. Did you ever think about why calculators have 1, 2, and 3 on the bottom row while phones put those keys on the top row? Why did the high beam headlight switch migrate from… Continue reading First Joel on Software Book of the Month