July 1, 2002

Google and Weblogs: best hope for KM

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.”

June 26, 2002

VerisignOff.org : Take back your name from Verisign

What an awesome service: VerisignOff ! — “Network Solutions is a company owned by Verisign that registers and administers top-level domain names for customers throughout the world. These companies engage in a variety of business practices that are, in our opinion, unethical, fraudulent, and calculated to be opaque and unfriendly to consumers. Despite many well-publicized, and in some cases, frankly nefarious, scandals involving these companies, millions of people continue to patronize them as the registrars for their domain names.”

June 19, 2002

SpamNet: New spam filtering

For the past few hours I’ve been using Cloudmark’s new P2P based spam filter plug-in for Outlook and so far so good. In addition to my own simple home grown server-based phrase matching spam filter, I’ve only had one bogus message reach my inbox. If I factor out what my own spam filter nabbed, that’s roughly 1 spam out of 5. Not bad. However, given the P2P roots of Coundmark’s spam filter, I can only imagine that it’ll get better and better as more people use the system. So, start using it!

June 17, 2002

404

File Not Found?

June 17, 2002

Match Report: Mexico 0 – 2 United States

Wow! “The Americans continued their improbable run on the sport’s greatest stage with a 2-0 victory over Mexico=us) on Monday.”

June 14, 2002

Insultingly Stupid Movie Physics

Interesting and funny … http://intuitor.com/moviephysics/index.html

June 13, 2002

Priceless ;

Ok, maybe you’ve seen this one already, but it’s still “Priceles”

June 13, 2002

Redneck Neighbor Blog

What it’s like to have a redneck neighbor ? (Thanks Bri)

June 13, 2002

Spamradio

Probably old news, but still funny: “Spamradio: Using a complex arrangement of pipes and funnels we turn the junk mail that we receive into a streaming audio broadcast that can be enjoyed from anywhere on the Internet.”

June 13, 2002

Will Cable Unplug the File Swappers?

Doh! From BusinesWeek: “New pricing plans for broadband use could make downloading pirated music and movies a prohibitively costly habit”