Wednesday, April 07, 2004

Skype Releases PocketPC Version Of VoIP Software [Slashdot] 3:34:32 PM      Google It!.

Software cinema verité. A growing number of vendors now use Flash videos to augment the obligatory lists of customers, features, and benefits that they publish on their marketing pages. It's a strategy I highly recommend. What hadn't occurred to me, until it happened this week, was that users might do this for you! [Full story at InfoWorld.com] Here's Paul Everitt, whose spontaneous act of software demonstration motivated the column: It's funny how these things happen. I put very little consideration into making that narrated demo. I had posted something about XSLT and said it was easier than advertised. In a weblog comment, someone asked for evidence to back up my assertion. I offered to make a recording, he took me up on the offer, and I spent 15 minutes with no post-production to respond to him. [Zope Dispatches] Exactly. "15 minutes with no post-production" is doable on a whim. When the activation threshold is low enough, things can happen that otherwise wouldn't. ... [Jon's Radio] 3:32:33 PM      Google It!.

RSS version history. After reading this well-intentioned history at Microsoft, I wanted to get an accurate timeline on the Web so people could find it when they search. I imagine some people will want to debate this, but I don't. I've included pointers that substantiate this timeline. If you click on the links, and think about the dates, you'll see the sequence is in order, and the notes about the formats are accurate. [Scripting News] 10:22:15 AM      Google It!.

Train Your Own Replacement [Slashdot] looks like a unionization opportunity or a sea change -- BL 10:20:51 AM      Google It!.

Linux Distributions Respond to Forrester [Slashdot] 10:18:35 AM      Google It!.

Are Computers Ready to Create Mathematical Proofs? [Slashdot] 10:17:26 AM      Google It!.

Skrenta: "Google has built their own distributed, fault-tolerant, petabyte filesystem, the Google Filesystem." [Scripting News] 10:16:05 AM      Google It!.

Matt Goyer: "Just think about what you could do with RSS, BitTorrent and a Media Center." [Scripting News] 10:10:46 AM      Google It!.

Playing Video Games Makes For Better Surgeons [Slashdot] performance enhancement related to play - This has important implications for high-skill service delivery organizations --BL 10:09:43 AM      Google It!.

On link resolvers and facilitating access to electronic content. John McDonald & Eric F. Van de Velde, the Lure of Linking, Library Journal, April 1, 2004. Excerpt: "Reference linking is necessary because library and information users today expect to move seamlessly among library content and information on the Internet. Libraries present users with disparate databases, different user interfaces, various searching capabilities, and changing institutional subscriptions. Reference linking is largely succeeding in removing these barriers." (Source: Diglet) [Open Access News] 10:05:56 AM      Google It!.

X.Org Foundation Releases X11R6.7 X Window System [Slashdot] 10:04:54 AM      Google It!.

Scientists seek 'map of science'. Scientists call for new ways to monitor the progress of science in the digital age. [BBC News | Science/Nature | UK Edition] 10:03:15 AM      Google It!.