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Well, I finally have an internet connection again.  Since the thunderstorms of Monday night, I've been dealing with internet withdrawal.  Not a pretty sight.

For those about to blog, we salute you. In my InfoWorld column this week (“Blogging behind the firewall“), I write about a small but really amazing outpouring of information-sharing in InfoWorld's IT department since we started a group weblog a few months ago. After I filed my column, I came across a Jon Udell column… Continue reading For those about to blog, we salute you

Project Logging. Blogging Behind the Firewall “Our internal use of Weblogs has greatly accelerated, and we’re beginning to see more tangible benefits as we’ve begun to reach a critical mass of internal contributors…. Since then, my team has been using the blog-driven IT roadmap in weekly staff meetings as a platform to discuss the initiatives… Continue reading Project Logging

Trusting Libraries for Your Aggregator. TV News in a Postmodern World: The Busine$$ of RSS “Want a glimpse of tomorrow? Innovators Bill French and Harry Hayes are SmartStream Alliance™ and have a product that's so compelling that news executives of every sort will be scrambling to be first in their market with it…. RSxStream is… Continue reading Trusting Libraries for Your Aggregator

Useit.Com: Thirty Years With Computers. For the field in general, it's worth remembering the downsides to centralized computing. We must take steps to keep users in control as we grow the power of the network. It's essential that we keep a strong front end to balance out improved back-end features. [Tomalak's Realm]

Comcast Is Spam King. C/Net reports that Comcast's high-speed Internet subscribers are the biggest spammer on the Internet. In a politically incorrect moment of truth-telling, Comcast network engineer, Sean Lutner reportedly told an antispam working group in Washington, D.C., last week, that Comcast users send out about 800 million messages a day, but a mere… Continue reading Comcast Is Spam King

Blogging your software company. As our developer continues to push forward with the back-end coding, I continue to refine the launch plan of the new startup. The primary issue that we're facing is that our service, while it adds a lot of value to an online advertising campaign, is going to require a fair amount… Continue reading Blogging your software company

Updated C# V2.0 Specifications now available. After a lot of work on Anders' part, we now have an updated version of the C# 2.0 Language Specification on the website. Not only does it have updated information on the “big 4” – Generics, iterators, anonymous methods, and partial classes, but it also has new information on… Continue reading Updated C# V2.0 Specifications now available

NetNewsWire and External Weblog Editors. ecto rules, and Adriaan Tijsseling is a cool cat. Adriaan writes: With the forthcoming NetNewsWire 2.0 release, you can now set ecto as the external blog editor. You'd be reading a cool feed in NetNewsWire, select a command, and – whoosh – the feed item's link and contents appear in… Continue reading NetNewsWire and External Weblog Editors

Blogging Blackstone!. Good to see that Tim Buntel has been 'persuaded' to create a blog dedicated to Blackstone, the next release of ColdFusion. Since Tim is product manager for ColdFusion, this should be a juicy, insightful and definitive blog! Welcome to the blogosphere … [An Architect's View]