July 22, 2002

Blogging hits the mainstream, for better or worse

Quote from an article in the SF Gate: “… the blogging world hope that blogging’s personal, collective, man-or-woman-on-the-street approach to newsgathering might breathe new life into stale mainstream media. Clearly, the hundreds of thousands creating their own blogs, as well as the collective millions who read the blogs, are looking for something they’re not getting in the daily paper.” [more here]

July 19, 2002

Porn goes “Open Source”

I found this while paging through the new releases on SourceForge:

“You would like to have your own erotic-porno-sex web site but you don’t want to spend time on it? This project will create it for you, it will browse other erotic-porno-sex web sites and it will put their pictures on your!” [ more here ]

July 19, 2002

Armstrong takes Stage 12 of the Tour

On the second day in the mountains, Armstrong takes another win at Stage 12, with his amazing Postal teammate Roberto Heras taking second after setting the pace on the climb to the finish for Lance. Kudos to Joseba Beloki for keeping up with the “Blue Bullet”.

July 18, 2002

All kids love Ren & Stimpy!

“Happy, happy, joy, joy! The Ren and Stimpy Show is coming back to TV!”

July 16, 2002

From TIPS to RATS

Why am I not surprised that soon after Operation TIPS [aka Terrorism Information and Prevention System], was announced, Operation RATS [aka Retrograde Activities and Treachery System], was announced [funny :]

July 16, 2002

Traction: Enterprise Weblog System

Quote from a review of Traction in InfoWorld “THERE IS STILL NO sure-fire recipe for KM (knowledge management) success, but the ingredients must include the staples of the knowledge worker: e-mail, the Web, and Microsoft Office. With Traction Software’s KM solution, content flowing through all these channels is easily captured by the Java-based Traction Server, which can be best described as an enterprise Weblog system . Documents posted to the server are stored as XML, tagged (in a Web interface) with system-and user-defined terms, made available for full-text and structured search, and served back out as team workspaces, enterprise information portals, or both.” [ more here ]

July 14, 2002

PeerCast

“PeerCast uses the Gnutella protocol as the basis for all communications, and complies (mostly) to the Gnutella 0.6 protocol. It works in much the same way as other Gnutella clients except instead of downloading files, the users download streams. These streams are exchanged in real-time with other users.”

From: PeerCast.org

July 3, 2002

Janis Ian speaks out about free music download ;

Interesting article : “Every time we make a few songs available on my website, sales of all the CDs go up. A lot…"

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.”