Blogging at Work: The right tool for the job. Quote: “[…]in my experience, once institutions shell out boatloads of money for an 'enterprise solution' like.. oh, for instance… Blackboard, all too often they end up trying to justify the massive outlay of resources by trying to use it for lots of things it's not very… Continue reading Blogging at Work: The right tool for the job

Tim Bray: The Death of Scholarship?. Quote: “I'm not against Web search; I use Google several times per day myself. But I think somebody really needs to get out there and exercise some leadership and dress up the world's scholarly information sources, including by the way most of our intellectual history, so that ordinary people… Continue reading Tim Bray: The Death of Scholarship?

Here come the tribes. Teen Tribes. Interesting stuff … and quite global in its depictions.  Check out the descriptions for each … you just might start understanding your neighbour's child better ….            Tribal Alliances. When Teenage Tribes Attack Which tribe do you (or your kids) belong to? As a new… Continue reading Here come the tribes

WebOutliner in Vienna. WebOutliner and Other New Tools. Marc Barrot is demonstrating the extraordinary WebOutliner at the BlogTalk conference. It's one of several new tools in a BOF session, and they're worth a posting all their own. The potential for this thing is significant, even if outlining is not a native notion to most folks.… Continue reading WebOutliner in Vienna

Introducing WWWW. In the last weeks I've been posting here and there about topics, aggregators, K-collector and other assorted stuff. Maybe it's the case to recap and try to explain a little bit better what we are up to. Here we go [Paolo Valdemarin: Paolo's Weblog] [Curiouser and curiouser!] More treats for the sweet. I… Continue reading Untitled

UK Might See Wi-Fi on Trains. UK train passengers show interest, revenue probably there: But governmental contracts for train operators that require renewal and many competing interests might prevent the companies from building their own or outside firms from going through all the hoops. Sounds like the airport market as well. Also, some technical issues… Continue reading UK Might See Wi-Fi on Trains

Apple Clarifies 802.11g Speed. Apple says, hey, it was always about 20 Mbps throughput: Bravo to MacCentral for asking and Apple for being so candid, in clarifying the fact that I knew and most folks who understand the spec know: 802.11g runs at 54 Mbps, but that's not a measure of the data encoded, but… Continue reading Apple Clarifies 802.11g Speed

Intersil Could Turbocharge Mixed Mode b/g. Intersil says it could make 802.11g work faster in environments with 802.11b and g operating: It's a clever technical fix but requires integration into the 802.11e quality of service (QoS) work in progress. It basically holds the line open longer for 802.11g packets, allowing more of that faster data… Continue reading Intersil Could Turbocharge Mixed Mode b/g

Subversive Technology:  I'm not sure if anybody still does pirate radio on the shortwave bands, but we may be seeing the rise of a new generation of pirate radio fanatics, with an entirely new spin on the topic. People are sneaking Wi-Fi gear into rock concerts, and transmitting packetized audio of the concert to accomplices… Continue reading Mini-ITX

The big blackout. Surprise, surprise: The TV networks that will benefit from the new FCC rules on media ownership have been keeping their viewers in the dark about the changes. [Salon.com]