Mike Sugarbaker: “It’s very simple: there are some friends you’d trust with your seat at Starbucks, but far fewer you’d trust with your car keys, and even fewer with, say, your sister in a tube top.”

dive into mark: “Why canÂ’t I just click an “auto-content” button and have my software automatically generate a list of, say, a dozen interesting links and quotes culled from my aggregator subscriptions, “neighboring” sites, sites discussing the hot topics of the day, and mainstream articles reporting on a small hard-coded list of additional topics?”

Seem like it would be easy enough to create a service like this given the Blogish services available today.

Shelley Powers over at Burningbird is doing some interesting things with trackbacks. I’d like to test out the PHP code when it’s available.

Neat trick: Wrapping XML-RPC in SOAP (via Sam Ruby)

Jeremy Zawodny writes, “It’s a rare engineer who can see both sides of the coin: the technology and its application toward achieving a company’s business goals.”

“However, there’s a stranger breed … the engineer who … has little trouble explaining how his work supports the company’s broader goals…”

I think as we put the .com era behind us and as engineers from that time mature, you will see more and more of this “odd creature” — at least I hope so (sans the part about the “difficultly communicating with the more common engineers” :)

I found this via Doc who got it from Buzz, but anyway, it’s a Java Applet that moves (virtually) through space and the subatomic universe of
electrons and protons: Molecular Expressions: Science, Optics and You – Powers Of 10: Interactive Java Tutorial (very cool!)

I’m really enjoying the use of Mark Pilgrim‘s
Recommended Reading tool. It’s a great demonistration of the Six Degrees of Separation in the Blogosphere. Thanks Mark!

Kevin Werbach on CNet: “Businesses that can capitalize on decentralization–as both creators and users of technology–will be best-positioned for the future.”

Well, this is my first post using Michel Tidakada’s b2 blogging tool and I must say, I like it. Nice work!

I’d also like to thank my buddy John Federico for the server space … man, this server rocks!

An interesting sidebar by Jon Udell to an article in InfoWorld on the Google search appliance…

Quotes: “Webloggers are becoming the guerrilla warriors of a KM revolution. And on both sides of the firewall, they and Google are natural allies.”

“The presence of Google motivates in ways that go beyond the trendy appeal of Weblogs. Of course, posted items can be found later on. But more subtly, they participate in a status hierarchy. Google’s PageRank algorithm is all about finding the best document — that is, the most relevant, most authoritative — for each query-defined domain.”