Start Your (Search) Engines. Members of the New York City Company of Friends group recently exchanged a series of emails about new search engines they use. Here are their recommendations: Vivisimo: Using a “clustering engine,” the service automatically organizes and categorizes similar search results… [Fast Company Now]
Chris Lydon interviews James Gleick on his biography of Sir Isaac Newton. “Almost everything we know about apples and moons in motion and at rest, about time, space, gravity, inertia, differential and integral calculus, occurred to Isaac Newton in his early twenties, working in isolation through the London plague years of 1665 and 1666.” [Scripting… Continue reading 
The Wonderful World Of Wirelessness
Forbes: The Wonderful World Of Wirelessness. In this fifth annual E-Gang survey, profiling unsung heroes of high tech, FORBES looks at five people helping foster the next phase of the wireless revolution. They're toppling some of the biggest obstacles to a Wireless Everywhere world… [Tomalak's Realm]
French Winemakers Harvest a Hot Vintage
French Winemakers Harvest a Hot Vintage. The blazingly hot summer may leave a positive legacy behind vineyards are hauling in their most promising crop in years. By Craig S. Smith. [New York Times: NYT HomePage]
Bush in bed with FirstEnergy CEO
Bush in bed with FirstEnergy CEO. Sunday: FirstEnergy, Deregulation and the Bush Administration. A good article on the energy policy and campaign contributions behind the scenes of the blackout of 2003: Bush Turns … [istori/log] Well there's a surprise. [Curiouser and curiouser!]
Gimme gimme
Gimme gimme. BBC: “Greg Dyke, director general of the BBC, has announced plans to give the public full access to all the corporation's programme archives.” [Scripting News] This would be amazing. There are so many treasures here that will never be a certain commercial proposition and, so, never justify being released on video or DVD. … Continue reading Gimme gimme
Speeding up Zend Engine 1: Faster, Stronger, Harder
Speeding up Zend Engine 1: Faster, Stronger, Harder. Sterling and Thies rewrite large parts of the core engine of PHP, resulting in amazing speedups. PHP 4.4 anyone? [PHP Everywhere]
some good ideas of things it can do
Ian Fogg, another Jupiter blogger, gives Microsoft some good ideas of things it can do for new users to make them more secure. I agree: our OOBE (out of box experience) gets worse and worse as Windows ages. Why? Because you have to download dozens of megabytes of patches and fixes. Our OOBE should get… Continue reading some good ideas of things it can do
The Origin of Personas
Alan Cooper: “The Origin of Personas.” All you have to do is walk around one of Microsoft's buildings to see how important personas are to developing software here. [The Scobleizer Weblog]
Metadata: Promises and Perils
Speaking of Tim Oren, his “Metadata: Promises and Perils” article is pretty interesting. [The Scobleizer Weblog]