The other shoe drops at heels.com. Law Offices of Erik J. Heels In short, I now believe that a weblog can be the main publishing platform for any website, including a law firm website. And weblog software is much more powerful than traditional web publishing software. So I have retired my old website home page… Continue reading The other shoe drops at heels.com

ReplayTVs Regress But Still Rock!. ReplayTV Puts Ad Skipping on Pause “The company said its upcoming ReplayTV 5500 boxes, which are expected to be released in August, will not contain the Send Show and Automatic Commercial Advance tools as the company tries to 'address the concerns of copyright holders….' A representative for ReplayTV's new owner… Continue reading ReplayTVs Regress But Still Rock!

RSS Aggregators Gaining Ground!. Should the big pubs be paying attention to RSS? Just ask Andy Rhinehart at GoUpstate.com, home of the Spartanburg Herald-Journal newspaper. Last year Andy led the pack by offering an RSS feed for their top news stories. This year he enhanced the SHJ's status by creating a feed for their classified ads, and… Continue reading RSS Aggregators Gaining Ground!

The WASTE affair.  Once upon a time (1998) I prototyped a P2P system based on two simple ideas: A local webserver implemented in a scripting language. Browser-based access to local (or remote) apps. The possibilities inherent in this architecture were, and are, astonishing. Since it was a Web-style system, it was obvious — yet still… Continue reading The WASTE affair

EE Times: U.S. high-speed access nears 20 million subscribers. High-speed Internet access connecting U.S. homes and businesses increased 23 percent during the second half of 2002, according to government figures released Tuesday. The Federal Communications Commission said there were 19.9 million high-speed lines as of the end of 2002. [Tomalak's Realm]

The American Conservative May 19, 2003 issue – Surveillance State. Since September 11, a flood of federal legislation has reduced American freedom without increasing our security. Perhaps you've visited your local library to keep speed with the War on Terror: borrowed a few books on Islamic fundamentalism or did web research on biochemical weapons. Beware.… Continue reading Surveillance State

Ohio Courts Embrace Technology. “Chief Justice Thomas J. Moyer announced that the results of the latest Ohio Supreme Court 2002 Survey on Technology and the Courts shows that Ohio courts are steadily advancing in their use of technology,” according to this article in Govtech.net…. [beSpacific]

Phil Windley | Weblog Business Strategies: Michael Gartenberg. Quote: “Adam talks about the barriers to entry with CMS systems. Boy is that ever true. We tried to put a CMS system in place in Utah and I think its still not off the ground. Its difficult to get the use cases right, difficult to train… Continue reading Phil Windley | Weblog Business Strategies: Michael Gartenberg

Nick Bradbury is at it again.  I just learned about Nick Bradbury's latest project, FeedDemon, an RSS news aggregator.  Nick's work in the web development tools space has been pioneering, with HomeSite being the most popular HTML text-editor ever released, and TopStyle, the standard productivity tool for CSS editing.  Versions of both HomeSite and TopStyle… Continue reading Nick Bradbury is at it again

We Seem To Have Forgotten That Librarians Are Teachers, Too. Oh, You Think You Know How to Search the Internet, Do You? “From Denise Howell's unofficial transcript of the recent conference with luminaries such as the founders of Google (Larry Page and Sergey Brin), we get this statement from Larry Page: Page: 'I've been waiting… Continue reading We Seem To Have Forgotten That Librarians Are Teachers, Too