Monday, November 08, 2004

10 x 10. This is one of the more interesting applications of RSS I've seen. "Every hour, 10x10 scans the RSS feeds of several leading international news sources, and performs an elaborate process of weighted linguistic analysis on the text contained in their top news stories. After this process, conclusions are automatically drawn about the hour's most important words. The top 100 words are chosen, along with 100 corresponding images, culled from the source news stories." By Various Authors, November 7, 2004 [Refer][Research][Reflect] [OLDaily] 7:59:55 PM      Google It!.

Everquest 2 Launches [Slashdot:] 7:58:43 PM      Google It!.

Cornucopia of the commons. Roland Piquepaille has latched onto del.icio.us: I read all the entries I posted on my blog since March 31, 2002, in chronological order, and I assigned a category to all these stories. Now, I have a full archive of all my posts. Before del.icio.us, if I wanted to know if I already wrote about a specific subject, I used PicoSearch or Google. But a search by word is not always efficient. Now, I open my del.icio.us archive and I click on a tag. ... Now, what about you? Have you found other creative or innovative ways to use del.icio.us? [Roland Piquepaille's Technology Trends: How do you use del.icio.us?] As I mentioned here, the key phrase when thinking about a service such as del.icio.us is Dan Bricklin's "cornucopia of the commons." This is so fundamentally important that I'll quote again from his seminal article: We've heard plenty about the tragedy of the commons --in fact, it pops up in several other chapters of this book. In the 1968 essay that popularized the concept, "The Tragedy of the Commons," Garrett Hardin wrote: Therein is the tragedy. Each man is locked into a system that compels him to increase his herd without limit -- in a world that is limited. Ruin is the destination toward which all men rush, each pursuing his own best interest in a society that believes in the freedom of the commons. Freedom in a commons brings ruin to all. In the case of certain ingeniously planned services, we find a contrasting cornucopia of the commons: use brings overflowing abundance. Peer-to-peer architectures and technologies may have their benefits, but I think the historical lesson is clear: concentrate on what you can get from users, and use whatever protocol can maximize their voluntary contributions. That seems to be where the greatest promise lies for the new kinds of collaborative environments. [Dan Bricklin: Cornucopia of the Commons, Peer-to-Peer, Chapter 4] ... [Jon's Radio] 11:44:02 AM      Google It!.

Medtronic Wins FDA Approval on Insync Sentury ICD. CHICAGO (Reuters) - Medtronic Inc. MDT.N on Monday said U.S. regulators approved its Insync Sentry implantable defibrillator (ICD) months earlier than it expected. [Reuters: Technology] 10:18:51 AM      Google It!.

Fedora Core Release 3 Released [Slashdot:] 8:41:43 AM      Google It!.

Retailers Deploy Databases Against Customers [Slashdot:] the "free market" at its worst doing discrimination with technology -- BL 8:36:05 AM      Google It!.

Google Censors Abu Ghraib Images [updated] [Slashdot:] 8:30:53 AM      Google It!.

Zope X3 3.0.0 Released [Slashdot:] 8:29:00 AM      Google It!.

When Etiquette Isn't Enough, a Cellphone Cone of Silence. The deliberate private creation of cellphone dead zones is an act bound to infuriate phone users and the cellphone industry alike. By By KEN BELSON. [NYT > Technology] 8:27:42 AM      Google It!.

Marketing for the Third Screen. Marketers are about to aim at the third screen: the one on the cellphone in your pocket. By By NAT IVES. [NYT > Technology] 8:26:19 AM      Google It!.

Shopping With My Friendsters. Social networking features are popping up on auction and shopping sites, allowing visitors to compare notes and turn e-commerce into a social experience. By By BOB TEDESCHI. [NYT > Technology] 8:25:18 AM      Google It!.

The Rise of Open-Source Politics [Slashdot:] 8:24:00 AM      Google It!.

Living Free and Easy. Kiss those utility bills goodbye. Well, maybe. If you live in a sunny -- but not humid -- area, you may be able to live in a zero-energy home. By John Gartner. [Wired News] 8:22:07 AM      Google It!.

Novell Linux Desktop Released [Slashdot:] 8:19:21 AM      Google It!.

Evaluating the Cost Effectiveness of Online and Face-to-Face Instruction - Sharon Jeffcoat Bartley and Jennifer H. Golek, Journal of Educational Tech. Online instruction is gaining an increasing presence due to the benefits associated with it, including the ability to consolidate education and training across geographical and time constraints, and the claim by many that online education and training [Online Learning Update] 8:11:40 AM      Google It!.