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Enhancing search results with metadata. My tag fever has now infected the InfoWorld site, as Chad Dickerson and Matt McAlister have recently discussed. This opens up a bunch of possibilities. Today, for example, I tweaked my experimental InfoWorld power search to report the InfoWorld-assigned tags for URLs in the result set. Only the most recent… Continue reading Enhancing search results with metadata

Making it easy to do the right thing. You'd think that a language with only a handful of verbs, only two of which are widely spoken, would be easy to learn. Not so in the case of the Hypertext Transfer Protocol, though. After more than a decade we're still sorting out how and why to… Continue reading Making it easy to do the right thing

Getting organized using OneNote note flags. I've written recently about some of the more exotic capabilities of OneNote, but I thought I would spend a little time on Note Flags. Note Flags are one of the fundamental features of OneNote that makes the power of having an electronic notebook apparent. Oddly, although we consider Note… Continue reading Getting organized using OneNote note flags

Last Benedict shepherded Catholic countries in World War. THE choice of papal names is often scrutinised for hints on what the new pontiff might have admired in previous popes with those same names. [The Scotsman]

Cardinals choose German conservative to lead church. CARDINAL Joseph Ratzinger was yesterday named as the 265th Pope. Taking the name Pope Benedict XVI, the German cleric described as the cleverest man in the Vatican is a conservative expected to continue the strict orthodoxy of John Paul II. [The Scotsman]

Cardinals Choose a Close Aide to John Paul II to Lead Church. Cardinal Joseph Ratzinger, who served as John Paul II's hard-line defender of church doctrine, was elected on the second day of the conclave. By IAN FISHER and LAURIE GOODSTEIN. [NYT > Home Page]

Enterprise Linux IT: Veracity Offers Help With Linux. “Veracity Networks, Inc., a two-year-old, information-technology firm, has formed a subsidiary exclusively dedicated to Linux support…”… [Meerkat: An Open Wire Service]

Web Apps at Odeo. Evan Williams discusses running your company on web apps like Basecamp, Gmail, and FogBugz. “The improved efficiency of having these apps available, and not having to install and maintain servers for them is huge,” he says.  [Signal vs. Noise]

Lenn Pryor: “I recently accepted a new job and have resigned my post as Director, Platform Evangelism at Microsoft after almost 8 years with the company. I am joining Skype and the family and I will be moving to the UK. I have taken a position on the product and services team at Skype.” As… Continue reading Lenn Pryor

Happiness Is the Best Medicine. Happiness and health are often linked, but are people healthy because they're happy or happy because they're healthy? Several new studies shed light on the connections between biological processes and the psyche. By Rowan Hooper. [Wired News]