Monday, May 6, 2002
How the Towers Collapsed
The experts were unable to determine whether the fires alone, without the impact of the airplanes, could have brought the towers down. But it is disquieting to learn that an adjacent 47-story building collapsed completely as a result of a fierce fire fed by diesel oil on the premises, and that another building suffered a partial collapse from fire.
Google's bias is a temporary anomaly
Jon Udell
I'd say we're living through an odd historical moment in which web pundits, simply by virtue of abnormally large web surface area, wield disproportionate influence.
Well, this is interesting. I'm the number one search result on Google for laurent mpeti kabila, apparently a result of this post.
I'm not the only Radio user contacted by Mr. Kabila. Mark Woods posted his comments here.
This is something I would love to see
John Robb
A small town newspaper builds a site with Radio. It provides Radio to all of the community leaders in town, such as the local fire department, the police, the schools, the community organizations, the local sports teams, the zoning board, etc. All told it provides 50 licenses, templates, and a location to post ($2k). It then links to these organizations via its home site and aggregates RSS style news.
Avatier releases policy engine for password creation
John Fontana
Knowing that the most porous spots in a corporation's network security defense are sometimes the simple passwords devised by not-so-clever end-users, Avatier this week unveiled an administrative tool that sets and enforces policies for the creation of passwords on Windows-based systems.
How many meaningless combinations of letters and numbers are the "not-so-clever end-users" supposed to remember? Already, by far the easiest way to determine a user's password is to read it off of the Post-it® note stuck to their monitor...
Paper Complains to Web Site About the Way It Links
David F. Gallagher
Readers of The Dallas Morning News are free to skip the front page. But someone trying to do the same thing on the paper's Web site might hear from a lawyer.
Paranoia, stupidity and greed ganging up on the public
Dan Gillmor
If you are reading this column in the newspaper, but did not read every article and look at every advertisement in previous sections, stop now. You must go back and look at all of that material before continuing with this column.
