16 June 2002

The Case for Document Imaging ERNIE THE ATTORNEY -- Have you considered the costs of storing documents? Here's what it means to Ernie the Attorney. "Four boxes of documents that are scanned = one CD-ROM (almost 1 GB).  So in a little $400 external hard drive that weighs about 2 pounds you can keep the equivalent of 640 boxes.  The 640 boxes would weigh about 12,000 pounds (i.e. each box weighs about 20 pounds).  So you can carry around 6 tons of documents, or try to store them, or copy them.  Or you can carry around a 2 pound hard drive.  It's up to you."     [Comment on Shoptalk]

WOD: aesthete WOD: aesthete -- One having or affecting great sensitivity to beauty, as in art or nature. Ballymun, with its stolid, square buildings and endless ribbons of tarmacadam roads, feels like the mistake of a novice county planner, while Kilkenny's medieval architecture and delightful laneways feel like the plan of an aesthete.   [Comment on Shoptalk]

Ringtone Royalties: Music Bizmodel of the Future? ASAHI.com -- Current trends in Ireland prove that downloading ringtones makes money for the wireless networks, creatives, and musicians. In Japan, music lovers download more than 60m ringtones each month. Every time a song is downloaded from a Japanese ISP onto a mobile phone, the provider pays royalties to JASRAC, which distributes the money to copyright holders. x: 109   [Comment on Shoptalk]

How Google Searches Itself FAST COMPANY -- Google's intranet uses Xerox PARC's Sparrow collaboration program to track most commonly discussed ideas as a way of determining what's worth implementing. The software followed some Googlers from Stanford, where the Web Team uses Sparrow. x: 119   [Comment on Shoptalk]