Author: Vince Kimball

Exploring Tim Knip's Radio/Groove interop tool. When you install Tim Knip's Groove/Radio interop tool you specify three tools in a shared space. First, a discussion tool whose items are sent to your blog. Second, a files tool whose contents are upstreamed. Third, another discussion tool that collects the RSS items fetched by your news aggregator.… Continue reading Exploring Tim Knip's Radio/Groove interop tool

“A day at the office in 2013”. The day in the life of Gregor Samson is a cautionary tale. I don't expect corporate leaders to broadly adopt such Draconian measures. Nonetheless, when sensors are pervasive, cost less than a penny, have more chip-to-chip intelligence, and transmit at distances far beyond 15 feet or even 300… Continue reading “A day at the office in 2013”

The Register. Andrew Orlowski singles out three new applications — Tinderbox, Spring, and Net News Wire — that help OS X regain “some real forward momentum.” [Mark Bernstein]

Book Excerpt: HTTP: The Definitive Guide, Pt. 4. HTTP headers convey a wide variety of information; including client/server configurations, document caching directives, proxy and security requests, etc. The conclusion of this excerpt series presents both the headers themselves and the information they contain. From O'Reilly. [WebReference News]

Gort, Klaatu Barada Nikto!. Gort is one of the best known cinematic robots and he's about to get a new lease on life. 20th Century Fox has been restoring The Day the Earth Stood Still as part of its film preservation program. The restored version will be released on DVD soon.  [Meerkat: An Open Wire… Continue reading Gort, Klaatu Barada Nikto!

Law Blogs with useful information – I can't help noticing how much legal information is now freely available because of blogs.  The Blawgistan Times is a neatly presented compendium of information gathered from several different law blogs.  InterAlia has a steady stream of useful information for lawyers (RSS feed available).  Internet Tools For Lawyers is another great source… Continue reading Blawgistan Times

BuddySpace. Now that the notion of presence is beginning to infuse our electronic communication, an inevitable next question is: presence where? Marc Eisenstadt, chief scientist at the Knowledge Media Institute of the Open University in the UK, wrote to show me a Jabber-based system called BuddySpace that locates presence indicators on maps. In the map… Continue reading BuddySpace

London Tate Modern Museum's Wireless, Location-Sensitive Tour Devices. While multimedia tours have been trialled in the USA, this is the first in the world to use a location-sensitive wireless network. This means that visitors no longer need to spend time searching the multimedia tour to find the relevant information for a room, because the network… Continue reading London Tate Modern Museum's Wireless, Location-Sensitive Tour Devices

I've moved Joel on Software to a new server, at a colocation facility operated by Peer 1 Network. In the process of finding a new home and getting it up and running I've learned quite a bit about how web hosting works, so I thought I'd describe a bit of it here and in the… Continue reading Peer 1 Network

Speaking of RSS advancements at Microsoft, has anyone noticed that there are five different RSS news aggregators built using Microsoft's .NET technology? Oh yeah, Ziv Caspi did. [The Scobleizer Weblog]