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Delta gets it. About six months ago, the passenger to my right informs me, Delta Airlines installed the new information system that I just experienced for the first time at La Guardia airport this morning. It's one of the most effective uses of information technology I have ever seen. Even if you don't usually fly… Continue reading Delta gets it

I'm doing an interesting project to backup a Radio installation into the cloud. Eventually this will allow people to synchronize work between office and home, a common feature request. In the process, I found a new use for RSS, as an interchange format for weblog software. Almost everything we store about a weblog post is… Continue reading define

Top 13 Tips To Creating A Professional Looking Newsletter. Stickysauce Nov 13 2002 3:03AM ET [Moreover – moreover…]

Dan Bricklin reviews the TabletPC. You know, my experience with the Tablet is much like Dan's. I won't buy another laptop. It's over. The Tablet has already changed my life that much. And, yes, I need to wait until next year to get one of the NEC's (which are, by the way, about half the… Continue reading Dan Bricklin reviews the TabletPC

Safire on Poindexter's Panopticon. WASHINGTON — If the Homeland Security Act is not amended before passage, here is what will happen to you: Every purchase you make with a credit card, every magazine subscription you buy and medical prescription you fill, every Web site you visit and e-mail you send or receive, every academic grade… Continue reading Safire on Poindexter's Panopticon

You Are a Suspect: The Latin motto over Poindexter's new Pentagon office reads “Scientia Est Potentia” — “knowledge is power.” Exactly: the government's infinite knowledge about you is its power over you. “We're just as concerned as the next person with protecting privacy,” this brilliant mind blandly assured The Post. A jury found he spoke… Continue reading You Are a Suspect

Lifeblood. Retail bookselling is a tough racket. [Mark Bernstein]

Fuseboxed – Well, I decided to launch the new version of my site tonight, built with Fusebox 3 for PHP. It should behave mostly like the old site. Let me know if you find any problems with it. I'll be updating quite a bit of content over the next few evenings and also writing up… Continue reading new version of my site

My friend Mary just bought a Mazda Tribute!

A Taxonomy Primer. Taxonomies… thesauri… classification systems… synonym rings. We've heard all of these terms in the context of the Web… [xBlog: The visual thinking weblog | XPLANE]