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Dan Bricklin: Web Services, Business Models, and Storage. To me, the implications are that services must be structured so that people feel they have independent full access and control of their data. One way to do this is to make sure they can easily export it in a form they are comfortable with to keep… Continue reading Web Services, Business Models, and Storage

NY Times: Companies Move Away From Centralized Offices. These days, with businesses reconsidering the desirability of everything from opening mail to clustering people in urban centers, many companies are taking a closer look at the so-called distributed workplace — and studying the handful of corporations that have chosen to adopt it. [Tomalak's Realm]

Joel Spolsky: For the umpteenth time, I found myself dependent on a code library which had a crashing bug that was unacceptable in code I shipped. What are you supposed to do if you're the chef at Les Halles and your fishmonger is giving you smelly fish? Today, you need to know how to work… Continue reading Joel Spolsky:

Writing James Pryor is a popular young Harvard philosophy professor who shows The Matrix in class to illustrate points about Epistemology. His article Guidelines on Writing a Philosophy Paper is one of the best tutorials on any kind of writing: Pretend that your reader is lazy, stupid, and mean. He's lazy in that he doesn't… Continue reading The Matrix

MS XML Parser Version 4: Don't Look Back. With their latest XML Parser release, Microsoft seems to be saying: “Out with the old, and in with the new.” How will this lack of backwards-compatibility affect your own XML efforts? Michael Classen investigates. [WebReference News]

Washington Post – Editorial Op-Ed – A Panicky Bill. By overwhelming majorities, both houses of Congress have now passed legislation giving the government greater latitude to monitor communications and otherwise pursue and detain suspected terrorists. Leaders of the effort were celebrating the complex bill's enactment yesterday as a major bipartisan accomplishment and great success that,… Continue reading Washington Post

Article: “Building Community at Work”- published in Executive Update. Quote: “Traditional management makes it challenging for people to work across organizational boundaries, share knowledge, and understand – let alone address – the multidimensional problems associations confront in today's marketplace. An age-old solution with a human face is already at work in your organization: community.” [Serious… Continue reading Article: “Building Community at Work”- published in Executive Update

Technology Review – Show Your High-Tech ID. Trevor Darrell, who researches biometrics at MIT, is developing applications that go beyond traditional face, hand or iris recognition. He demonstrated a system to identify people by the way they walk; another to do it by the way they talk; and a third to spot suspicious behavior, such… Continue reading Show Your High-Tech ID

Conflict News from Wired News – Terror Act Has Lasting Effects. Though some of the provisions in the sweeping anti-terrorism bill will expire in 2004, many have no sunset clause and broaden police powers indefinitely. After the president signs the measure on Friday, police will have the permanent ability to conduct Internet surveillance without a… Continue reading Wired News

Hats Off to Feingold. He reminded his colleagues that our Founding Fathers “wrote the Constitution and the Bill of Rights to protect individual liberties in times of war as well as in times of peace.” And he pointed out that “they did not live in comfortable and easy times of hypothetical enemies.” Feingold was quite… Continue reading Hats Off to Feingold