Saturday, July 23 2005
Who Do We Work For?
The FT Global 500 is pretty much what you see when you look up “capitalistic orgy” in the dictionary. It’s a compilation of the largest 500 mega-corporations in the...
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Friday, July 22 2005
Transformational Standards
Don Box (whose blog doesn’t seem to be taking comments any more, so I’ll do it over here) points out some very cool technology he’s using, Microsoft’s Office Communicator....
Thursday, July 21 2005
John Kerry, Spammer
Both my wife and I signed up to johnkerry.com’s mailing list during the last federal election cycle. After he lost, we inevitably lost some immediacy of interest in what...
Monday, July 18 2005
Core Image Fun House
Am I just behind, or is Core Image Fun House the coolest thing ever? With Core Image, Apple has basically built Photoshop into the OS, except that all of...
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Saturday, July 16 2005
Making Syndication Enterprise-Grade
After more than five years, syndication is maturing rapidly. It’s being used for more than blogging — whether it be stock quotes, system logs, or order lists — and...
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Friday, July 15 2005
Don’t use the ‘feed’ URI Scheme
It’s been covered before elsewhere, but just a friendly reminder: ‘feed’ URIs are bad for the Web, as are any that are used solely for dispatch (e.g., ‘itms’, ‘pcast’)....
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Tuesday, July 12 2005
Naked & Angry
Talk about ground-breaking online business models! Naked & Angry lets you submit your own patterns that people will vote on for seven days; the winners will get $500 and...
Saturday, July 9 2005
Never Mind the Corporate Blogs; Here’s the Wiki
While a lot of companies are exploring blogs as a means of building communities, Intuit* (makers of Quicken, TurboTax, etc.) has skipped directly to the next logical step; using...
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Friday, July 8 2005
One Description to Bind them All? Nah.
You can describe just about anything with sufficient precision in plain English, given enough words. In practice, this doesn’t happen; specialised fields — whether science, finance or art —...
Friday, July 1 2005
(Statistical) Information Wants to Be Free
The Australian Bureau of Statistics has announced that as of today, their online publications and tables are now free to download, instead of requiring an account and a per-download...
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