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The Digital Hoards. We Are Becoming Digital Pack Rats “Personal computers — our jukeboxes, photo labs, accountants and film studios — are becoming the proverbial junk drawer, scattered with scads of must-have information. Sister devices such as digital cameras, MP3 players and digital video recorders overflow with often barely a bite of spare storage. The… Continue reading The Digital Hoards

Advanced Taxonomy. LaVern Prichard's Legal Technology News article Knowledge Management: Multi-Dimensional Knowledge explains how he made his LawMoose site more useful by shifting to a thesarus-based topic categorization system, instead of a conventional topic-subtopic system. Here's an excerpt: [I]n our thesaurus-powered legal knowledge collection, resources appear under as many topics as make sense without having… Continue reading Advanced Taxonomy

Gone In 20 Minutes: Unpatched PCs Have Low Survival Times. Ad hoc patches, as pushed by Microsoft for years as the key to computer security, are not a solution to today's security problems. CNET News reports on a new study that concludes: [A]n unpatched Windows PC connected to the Internet will last for only about… Continue reading Gone In 20 Minutes: Unpatched PCs Have Low Survival Times

Labor Day. This is my month to stop taking things for granted, starting with today’s holiday. Labor Day, if it means anything to most Americans, probably means the last cookout, back-to-school shopping, and time to watch out for drunk drivers. It’s all too easy to forget that the holiday, which originated as an annual march… Continue reading Labor Day

komo news | Wal-Mart Hit By Gift Card Scam. SEATTLE – Thieves have found a way to secretly cash out your gift card before you have a chance to go shopping. The biggest target so far is the nation's largest retailer: Wal-Mart. We uncovered the problem after tips from local consumers. Wal-Mart won't say much.… Continue reading Wal-Mart Hit By Gift Card Scam

In Internet Calling, Skype Is Living Up to the Hype. Skype is the easiest, fastest and cheapest way for individual customers to use their computers with broadband connections as telephones. By JAMES FALLOWS. [The New York Times > Technology]

It All Started With a Good Cup of Coffee. Ten years ago last Wednesday, Cafe Cyberia, billed as the world's first Internet cafe, opened in the West End of London. By ERIC PFANNER International Herald Tribune. [The New York Times > Technology]

eBay: Sold on Grid. Eweek has a long interview with Marty Abbott, SVP of technology at eBay, who walks us through their online operations. Among other things, he explains how the backend databases evolved over the last five years: “We went from one huge back-end system and four or five very large search databases. Search… Continue reading eBay: Sold on Grid

Frances downgraded upon Fla. approach. Forecasters downgraded Hurricane Frances to a Category 2 storm last night but warned Floridians not to take the storm lightly as concerns shifted from high winds to torrential rains and flooding. [Boston Globe — Front Page]

FC Now: Happy Labor Day!. Monday is Labor Day in the US, a holiday set aside to celebrate and recognize working people. I was going to offer a roundup of Labor Day-related tools and resources, but the Monster Blog has already done so, including the first site I wanted to reference. Happy Labor Day!  [Fast… Continue reading FC Now: Happy Labor Day!