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Monday, June 10, 2002


THESE GUYS ARE STILL AWFULLY GOOD IN LOTS OF AREAS

A New System for Storing Data: Think Punch Cards, but Tiny. I.B.M. scientists have created a potential replacement for computer hard disks that can store the equivalent of 200 CD-ROM's on a chip the size of a postage stamp. By Kenneth Chang. [New York Times: Science]

11:49:23 PM     Comments[]


SCOTT MEETS REAL NEEDS WITH THIS SORT OF POST

Marketing 101: Your Very First Website in 5 Steps. This article will seem remedial to some of my readers.  It's assumes that you are a small business that is either new to the web or just plain new and walks you through the step by step process of developing a website.  I wrote this for someone who is just getting started as a small business website and, since I am handling their hosting, I didn't cover very much about hosting.  I did cover lots of other basics including how to do a free U.S. trademark search. [The FuzzyBlog!]

11:44:28 PM     Comments[]


AN INCREDIBLY LUCID EXPLANATION OF SOME COMPLEX MATERIAL

Did This Man Just Rewrite Science?. Dr. Stephen Wolfram's "A New Kind of Science" may be the scientific publishing event of the season, but whether it is a revolution in science as well must await the judgment of his peers. By Dennis Overbye. [New York Times: Science]

11:39:39 PM     Comments[]


ED CONE NAILS IT

Here are some quotes:

So I feel comfortable that if I say something isn't clear on Radio, even if the folks who make it think it is clear, it is probably not going to be that clear to many, many users.

What if you want to do more than that? Then it gets more complicated. Radio is a powerful tool, but even some of the stuff you might expect to be simple may not be not simple to the average person.

A programmer would perhaps laugh at me for my discomfort and fear about really screwing things up while messing with the code. But the rest of the world would understand. Same for the permanent links you see at the left margin of this page--easy when you know how to do it, intimidating if you don't.

The directions for doing these things aren't that helpful to the nonprogrammer. Step three in editing your homepage template, for example, is this: "Make the change. (It's HTML)." Great. Most of us don't speak code. We see a bunch of mystifying letters and numbers and symbols and haven't the first clue how to make any changes therein.

I would recommend Radio to both the power blogger and the hobbyist.

Ditto, Ed. [EdCone.com]

11:28:02 PM     Comments[]


IS ANY PARTY IN THE HEALTHCARE SUPPLY CHAIN

happy with what is going on? Lots of doctors think the only people in the whole chain who are happy are the health insurance executives with stock options!

Study Finds Inefficiency in Health Care. A new study by a group representing large employers says that $390 billion a year is being wasted on outmoded and inefficient medical procedures. By Milt Freudenheim. [New York Times: Business]

11:19:18 PM     Comments[]


IT WAS BOUND TO HAPPEN

The Farmer and the Cowblogger. Oh genius! My favorite name twin writes a great take off of The Farmer and the Cowman from Oklahoma! titled The Warblog and the Techblog. [meryl's notes]

11:09:32 PM     Comments[]


RADIO DOCUMENTATION?

Is there any documentation for the features in Radio that lay out the placement of items on the final weblog? I've seen a list of macros, but I don't know of anything in them that impacts lay-out. Is Radio documented somewhere?  

10:21:17 AM     Comments[]


BACK AND FORTH

Some say learn all you can about HTML. Others say learn CSS. Still others say learn Dreamweaver MX. What's a blogger to do?

Book Excerpt: Cascading Style Sheets. This glasshaus title examines the use of CSS to control the display of Web pages. Our excerpts from chapter 1 begin with a brief look at the history of HTML; with special emphasis on the factors leading up to the need for CSS-based development. [WebReference News]  

9:11:42 AM     Comments[]


MUCH ADO ABOUT NOT VERY MUCH?

"A Rift Among Bloggers" by David Gallagher [NY Times - Technology] appears to be an attempt to find controversy where there was none. The best use of the article is to identify some weblogs you might not have been reading and start.

Regardless of the subject one is writing about in the weblog world (blogosphere?), it seems to me that posts invariably fall into one of these types:

You can read more in this post from the weekend.  

7:46:22 AM     Comments[]


STATE OF THE WIRELESS UNION

Comprehensive overview of the state of wireless networking: Internetnews.com's newest reporter, Brian Morrissey, presents a superb and comprehensive overview of what's what in Wi-Fi or other 802.11 specs today. [802.11b Networking News]

7:29:05 AM     Comments[]


David Letterman. "Sometimes when you look in his eyes you get the feeling that someone else is driving." [Quotes of the Day]

7:06:43 AM     Comments[]


FOOL ME ONCE...

GARY WINNICK IS TRYING to line up investors to support a management-led restructuring of Global Crossing. But many investors blame the founder and chairman of the telecom company for its swift decline. [Wall Street Journal]

7:04:55 AM     Comments[]


Voltaire. "The way to become boring is to say everything." [Motivational Quotes of the Day]

6:48:56 AM     Comments[]


IBM MAINSTREAMED THE PC

in 1981. The industry we know today exists largely because of decisions that were made by IBM in those earliest years of the IBM personal computer. Could they do the same with Wi-Fi?

IBM hints at taking Wi-Fi access national. Big Blue, others eye creation of a single, virtual WLAN with seamless coverage [InfoWorld: Top News]

6:35:30 AM     Comments[]


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