11 June 2002

Radio Community Server Sighting: Radio Community Server. If you need to serve up intranet information for a private group, you should examine the Radio Community Server.

Adam Curry on Convergence I think Adam Curry has the right take on convergence. He writes, "Convergence did finally happen. But it didn't unfold in favour of the incumbent media entities. Convergence happend at home, on the desktop, where all the personal horsepower resides to Rip, Mix, Burn. We're now making our own entertainment. The revolution will be decentralized.

You Still Need Masts The Earth's a Big Blue Broadband: IBM decides that it should simply impose a technically excellent solution to bind all wireless networks into a seamless virtual LAN. Yeah, sounds great. Dismissing Boingo and other players, IBM's advance guard marches bravely into the quicksand, choking out a merry song as they vanish without a trace. If the industry to date has taught us anything, it's that there is no industry: no monolithic presence that dominates any part of wireless public space hot spots. Rather, many companies working independently and occasionally in concert will build the backbone of this new entity, and Boingo and others will bind together the infrastructure. Cell companies and deep-pocketed others may arrive and buy up chunks or spew hot spots out with a vengeance, throwing 1,000 up in a quarter. But real estate is still real estate: you can't cover everywhere; no one can afford that, and no one has access to everywhere. Wave to the nice people at IBM: buh-bye, buh-bye. [80211b News]

UserLand Makes On-Air Production a Snap Adam Curry: I'm trying out slam's new activeRender beta. Now the state of my outline's nodes are preserved when upstreamed. awesome! I totally rely on outlines for my "radio show", makes production a snap, especially with a live show where the rundown can change at any time.

Small Players Matter Dan Bricklin: small players matter.

Training in Ignorance Management My work skills have been enhanced through training in Ignorance Management.

Blogging is Like a Garage Band Phil Wolff: blogging : journalism :: garage bands : symphonic music

Copyseal Prevents Copying Text from Pages Copyseal spftware lets people see Web documents in HTML but not copy the text to another site or print it. The sw works by inserting random characters into the documents makes the text illegible if the pages are printed. The text will notreproduce on another Web site even though the characters are invisiblein the original document. The technology corrupts the text rather than destroying it, making it possible (if infeasible) to read the Copyseal-protected document. Adobe Acrobat documents can be set up to work the same way.

Recommended: Radio UserLand Tools Ed Cone reviews Radio: "I would recommend Radio to both the power blogger and the hobbyist. And I would recommend it to business users looking for ways to reach their customers, partners, etc. I would also recommend that UserLand continue to make the product simpler and more intuitive, and the help files easier to use for the mass-market audience." [Scripting News]

Lawsuits Over Deep Linking Avi Adelman: If the Web's creators hadn't wanted linking, "they would have called it the World Wide Straight Line." Adelman is involved in a dispute over linking to The Dallas Morning News.