More Business (And Fun) Uses For Old Macs

More Business (And Fun) Uses For Old Macs : Many of these ideas are useful in a business setting, while others are just plain fun. (The Business Mac via Applesurf) [Applesurf]

Wired News

Business News from Wired News – Who's Reading Your Resume?. People who post their resumes on Monster.com, the world's largest job-seeking site, “face considerable threats to their privacy,” according to a watchdog group. In a 24-page report, The Privacy Foundation on Wednesday accused Monster of attempting to sell users' private data to marketers, failing to… Continue reading Wired News

David Hess

David Hess: “With this application, you don't write your story chronologically, from beginning to end. You write your story one memory at a time. The application takes care of inserting the memory on your 'memory map' based on the date it took place.” [Scripting News]

Open source and reputation

Open source and reputation. I recently received an email from a reader of my book, asking about the licensing terms of the book. Here's an excerpt. [diveintomark]

Whose side is TiVo on?

Doc Searls: Whose side is TiVo on? The money behind TiVo is glad to buy TV ads showing viewers throwing TV executives out the window, but TiVo will never install anything that poses a threat to the relationships between media and their real market partners: advertisers. And that's why it's doomed. [Tomalak's Realm]

Feds stop seeking Microsoft breakup

Feds stop seeking Microsoft breakup. AP: “The Bush administration, reversing the Clinton White House legal strategy against Microsoft, told the software manufacturer Thursday it no longer seeks to have the company broken up.”… [Meerkat: An Open Wire Service]

That Darn Content

That Darn Content. Sooner or later all site designers must accept the fact that their pages must contain content. (Either that, or they won't be designers long.) But long text blocks do not necessarily mean boring page displays. Wendy Peck shows you the difference. [WebReference News]

MIT: OpenCourseware

MIT: OpenCourseware. Move to open courses MIT: OpenCourseware and CMU's Carnegie Technology Education (CTE) program show that trend toward open sharing of information among universities is gaining strengh. CTE program is actually used at my uni right now to certify certain courses. This is a very good trend, indeed. A few weeks ago I put… Continue reading MIT: OpenCourseware