Morris Arboretum Garden Railway: My latest not-so-famous find is the Morris Arboretum, and specifically the Garden Railway display. About 3 dozen replicas of important Philadelphia buildings were meticulously crafted using only natual materials, like bark and moss. Then over 1000 feet of large-guage electric train track was laid around the display, which includes overhead bridges,… Continue reading Morris Arboretum Garden Railway:
Author: Vince Kimball
SparkList Sparks a SparkBot
SparkList Sparks a SparkBot. SparkList launches an automated response system called SparkBot, designed for small- to medium-sized businesses wanting to computerize their sales or training processes. [Meerkat: An Open Wire Service]
Show Me The Money
Mappa.Mundi Magazine: Show Me The Money. It is probably the most useful exemplar of information mapping on the Web today and is well worth trying out if you've never used it. On one single map one can quickly gain a sense of the overall market conditions, yet still see many hundreds of individual data elements.… Continue reading Show Me The Money
The Hughes Blight Plan:
The Hughes Blight Plan: A Sweeping Proposal – How to fix Philadelphia's Blight Problem: Two weeks ago, I issued a challenge to Mayor John Street stating that it was possible to meet City Council President Anna Verna's request for a concrete plan before her Wednesday deadline, and that to prove it I would present a… Continue reading The Hughes Blight Plan:
The Internet's new borders
The Economist: The Internet's new borders. The Internet was a parallel universe of pure data, an exciting new frontier where a lawless freedom prevailed. But it now seems that this was simply a glorious illusion. For it turns out that governments do, in fact, have a great deal of sovereignty over cyberspace. [Tomalak's Realm]
New Peripherals Thrive in PC Downturn
New Peripherals Thrive in PC Downturn. PC sales have had a bad year, but sales of peripherals — the removable memory, CD drives, LCD monitors and other new toys computer users increasingly can't live without — have had a robust year, NPD Intelect found. [internetnews.com: Product News]
Wired News
Privacy News from Wired News – MS Passport: Straight to the FTC. Microsoft's Passport is no friend to the consumer who values his privacy, especially now that it's so integrated into XP. That's the concern of privacy advocates who are complaining to the U.S. government. In the new filing, the Electronic Privacy Information Center, Junkbusters… Continue reading Wired News
John Robb
John Robb – NewNetworks Institute: The RBOCs (local phone companies) caused the recent tech recession. This is true. IF the RBOCs had adopted i-mode's approach this killer tech recession would have been averted. “In fact, through this fiber-optic fiasco, the Bell companies have become some of the most profitable companies in America — outpacing the… Continue reading
interviewed
I was interviewed by WebWord.com: “If your software is going to be popular, you are going to have to deal with a million other things: writing manuals, creating good looking icons if you have a GUI, testing, recruiting good programmers, making a product that people want, usability testing, dealing with Norman the Cranky Tester, and… Continue reading interviewed
Jon Honeyball speculates on .NET's direction
Jon Honeyball speculates on .NET's direction. As I have been postulating for a while in my columns in PC Pro, Microsoft needs to complete its storage story. It has too many ways of storing relatively similar items, and a simplification is long overdue. This is coming, and it lays the roadmap for the major changes… Continue reading Jon Honeyball speculates on .NET's direction