10 June 2002

What I Know About Journalism DaveNet: What I'm learning about journalism. [Scripting News]

Blogging Difficult to Cover Doc Searls: "Blogging is a form of journalism that is proving very, very hard for mainstream journals to cover."

Getting Under the Etherlinx Bonnet Kilkenny, IRELAND.  A few of the guys on the Irish WAN Board have looked at Etherlinx and think they're modifying PC cards, not access points. Intersil chips are almost certainly at the center of their product. They're probably microcoding the lowest-level radio layer. 80211b News also thinks they're using Wi-Fi in one radio to handle the local network, and another radio is running a variant on 802.11 using frequency hopping. ref: 1482

Building a WiFi Mesh Network WiFi, it's a wave you just can't duck away from. I don't know if Furrier will be able to make money on this, but I sure hope so. And that he shares his technology so it can be adapted widely. With enough nodes the networks can be meshed. I believe this is one way local broadband flow will be created without the local telcos. Time to bring back mbone! [Adam Curry: Adam Curry's Weblog]

Flash-Based Weblog Browser The First Movement is a Flash-based weblog browser. Nice. It displays RSS feeds. It'd be interesting to see what my new RSS feed looks like in this browser. [Scripting News]

And What Makes Ken Layne an Expert? To be honest, until this piece was written I had never even heard of Ken Layne. That's how big the world is. I'll start reading his site now, and see if there's anything interesting there, and I'll let you know what I think. ";->" [Scripting News]

South Carolina Bloggingest State GO UPSTATE -- There's a new blog at GoUpstate and its insightful comments include testimonies to the A-List. "In real life, the TechGoddess is Jenny Levine.." Jenny's Shifted Librarian is one of my favorite weblogs, and GoUpstate is doing some very interesting stuff in their community with Radio. Andy Rhinehart works the Radio in South Carolina. Dave Winer thinks South Carolina may be the most weblog-wired state in the union in a few months. I think it's going to be California. Scripting News The tech goddess in my life is Ruth Maher x: 137

Making DSL Obsolete NY Times: "Etherlinx has taken the 802.11b standard and used it to build a system that can transmit Internet data up to 20 miles at high speeds -- enough to blanket entire urban regions and make cable or DSL connections obsolete." [Scripting News]

WOD: ennui ennui: Dictionary.com Word of the Day. ennui [Dictionary.com Word of the Day]

Audio Blogs Dave Winer and I have been talking about audio blogs and how to set them up so that publishing an audio post will be as simple as a written weblog post. We both agree that the telephone is the obvious interface for this, but we need a service that handles the audio. The hardest part is not sounding like an idiot when doing a solo-post. I can see interviews working much better. Anyway, I gave it a shot at about 1:30am and couldn't get it into an mp3, but if you're interested, check out the .au Audio Blog Post (about 800k) let me know what you think. [Adam Curry: Adam Curry's Weblog]

Properly Disposing of Old Computers WASTE - Mine it. Mark Small has a radical solution for dealing with the glut of old computers, cell phones, DVDs and other electronic waste: mining. [Lockergnome Bytes]

WIPO Lets Parody Site Keep Falwell Name The WIPO panel considering Jerry Falwell's attempt to strip Gary Cohn of his parody web site has ruled that Cohn is entitled to keep his domain names.

Make Your Mobile a Gaming Console GAMES - Going mobile. A British company is looking to woo mobile phone makers with technology it says can turn handsets into portable games consoles. [Lockergnome Bytes]

Palm OS5 Ships to Developers Palm pins hopes on beefed-up OS. Palm has shipped OS 5 to developers. The new operating system runs on more powerful ARM microprocessors and can handle richer audio and graphics, support wireless networking, and allowing multiple programs to run simultaneously. It will begin appearing in retail stores over the course of this summer.

High School Senior Charged for Writing Porn ALBANY, NY -- Student Charged for Writing Fictional Porn. A Shenendehowa senior faces up to a year in jail for allegedly depicting fellow students and at least one teacher engaged in sexual activities in a pornographic story posted on an Internet site. Vincent Fuschino, 18, was charged last month with second-degree aggravated harassment, a misdemeanor, after an underage female at Shenendehowa High School filed a complaint with the State Police. She allegedly identified herself as a character in the 40-page story.

Irish WiFi Nodes Expanding CELBRIDGE, CO KILDARE -- Irish WiFi nodes continue springing up. I wouldn't say that IrishWAN.org has a the details on everything, but message board traffic suggests new nodes are appearing weekly.

WOD: Penchant penchant: Dictionary.com Word of the Day. penchant [Dictionary.com Word of the Day]

Interference in WiFi Land 802.11b: "Other uses of the 2.4 gigahertz band that's the home of Wi-Fi may result in such widespread interference that Wi-Fi networks won't be possible indoors or outdoors in many urban areas." [Scripting News]