Does tagging lower costs of classification, but raise costs of finding information?. Gene Smith riffs on Ian Davis' take on why tagging is expensive. In a nutshell, the lower costs of classification are traded for higher costs in finding content. Gene makes much more sense of it than just that, though. At the end of… Continue reading Does tagging lower costs of classification, but raise costs of finding information?

Why I Love Ruby on Rails.In college, all of my classes revolved around Java and C++, and the first few years of my professional career were with ASP.Net which was a huge evolutionary leap in web development, and a joy to work with. It enabled me to spend less time on the tedious plumbing and… Continue reading Why I
Love Ruby on Rails

Tutorial: Setting up a server with SuSE 10.0 (19 Sep 2005). This is a very detailed tutorial about how to use the new SuSE 1. to set up a web, mail, and ftp server. It covers every aspect of the installation and demonstrates the setup process with the help of 5 screenshots, allowing even beginners… Continue reading Tutorial: Setting up a server with SuSE 10.0 (19 Sep 2005)

MI5 map reveals extent of terrorist threat to Scotland. EXTREMIST groups have sympathisers and supporters in almost every corner of Britain including many parts of Scotland, anti-terrorist officials believe. [The Scotsman]

Home Emergency Preparedness. After an event like Hurricane Katrina many families are reviewing their emergency preparedness. We live in Manhattan, so we saw the same trend at about this time in the year 2001. But in the post-Katrina era there seems to be a greater emphasis on self-reliance. … [cloudtravel]

How knowledge is organized. David Weinberger,from the Berkman Center for Internet & Society, was on “All Things Considered” last night to speak about 'tagging.' 'Tagging' Lets Ordinary Users Organize the Internet .On the program he says.”a new tool is emerging on the Internet that helps us find things based on what we think they're about.… Continue reading How knowledge is organized

Micro-ISV: From Vision to Reality. I'm very happy to announce that Apress is publishing my book, Micro-ISV: From Vision to Reality, which should be available in January. The book covers defining, developing and marketing a software application or web-based service while successfully building an Internet-centric self-funded company. I'm writing this book because while scores of… Continue reading Micro-ISV: From Vision to Reality

Excellent. The sixth and final element of COFFEE Design is Excellent. What do I mean by excellent? Here's a simple definition: extremely good, outstanding. Excellent means you took the time to do it right. Excellent means you didn't settle for good… [Leave It Behind > Brian Bailey]

How To Write Sensible E-mail. Last week we gave you a list of tips to make your use of e-mail more professionally. Although we touched on it, one thing we didn't get to far into was how to write e-mail that conveys a message as accurately as possible. Luckily GTD blogger Merlin Mann over at… Continue reading How To Write Sensible E-mail

Sending mail to users whose password's about to expire. Fellow MVP (and soon-to-be-published author of Essential Exchange Server 2003) Michael Smith has a cool script that will automatically send warning mail to users whose passwords are about to expire. Run it daily, and your mail-only users will never again be able to complain that their… Continue reading Sending mail to users whose password's about to expire