Author: Vince Kimball

Upstreaming catches up to downloading….. The Revolution Will Be Participatory. David Weinberger points to an interesting presentation made in April to the FCC regarding the growth of broadband usage in America. Weinberger rightly points out that the big story in the presentation is on slide six, in which the presenter (David P. Reed, CTO of… Continue reading Upstreaming catches up to downloading….

Ray Ozzie speculates that WASTE may have been pulled because of crypto export regulations. I don't buy that; here's why. [Hack the Planet]

RefactoringCringely. A recent piece by Robert Cringely caused a small stir in the refactoring community recently, as he criticized refactoring. Phlip summed the response on the refactoring mailing list with an unusually restrained '…he sounds like a “skeptic” who writes reviews of books he has no intention of reading.' Certainly it isn't clear how much… Continue reading RefactoringCringely

Interaction Design Grad School. I've started a blog to document my upcoming two years of graduate work in interaction design at Carnegie Mellon. For those of you who want to know what design grad school is like, (but don't want to spend the time or the money!) this is for you. [ia/ – information architecture… Continue reading Interaction Design Grad School

Report: IRS Information Security Seriously Flawed. The GAO released this report on June 2: Information Security: Although Progress Made, Weaknesses at the Internal Revenue Service Continue… [beSpacific]

Evolution 1.4 was also released. It seems like a shame that Ximian is selling Exchange seats instead of building a native collaboration infrastructure, but business is business. [Hack the Planet]

CNet: Nullsoft founder says he's had it with AOL. [Hack the Planet]

Mozilla on the move. Joel Spolsky's endorsement of Mozilla Firebird — he says “it has finally caught up with Internet Explorer” — has attracted lots of notice. It is, indeed, a sweet piece of work. I love how the extensions work. The first one I picked up was LiveHTTPHeaders which seems to instantly obselete Proxomitron… Continue reading Mozilla on the move

Searchable slides. I've added an XPath search feature to the OSCOM slideshow. Thanks to Brendan Eich, it's working identically in both IE and Mozilla (though coded somewhat differently for each). I'll have more to say about this technique in an upcoming article, but since the feature is already public I thought I'd at least mention… Continue reading Searchable slides

Wired News: Tech a Key in Media Rule Change. In a statement issued Monday, Commissioner Kathleen Abernathy, one of three Republicans who backed the measure (which passed by a three-to-two margin), concluded that consolidation of media is less problematic now that the public has more sources of information from which to choose. [Tomalak's Realm]