21 August 2002

Sighting: Wireless Discussion on Boards.ie BOARDS.ie -- One of the most rabid sources of information about wireless technologies, including: Vodafone charging for GPRS Siting Wireless Picture Messaging

Lessig and Winer Blog It Out Dave Winer -- Winer's Blog and Lessig went back and forth with a frank exchange of views over blogs. They got to an interesting place. At the end of the day, they became joint proponents of blogging in the creative commons. It's important that key people do not delegate their blogging. It's also important to listen to the backbench comments in the blogosphere. Personally, I like Lessig's simple suggestion: identify 2 luddite members of Congress -- one Republican and one Democrat. Organize and defeat them in November. If Congress saw bad ideas cost seats, they'd begin to do something about their bad ideas. This concept works in Ireland too.

Sighting: Adobe InDesign ADOBE.com -- In addition to the superior typographic controls of InDesign 2.0, features like Transparency, Table Creation, support for XML, and a streamlined print interface make InDesign 2.0 the clear choice for professional layout artists who are bound to high design standards and tight editorial deadlines.

Paying for News on the Run EDITOR AND PUBLISHER.com -- Analysts suggest wireless Internet access in public places will become an increasing standard for pay news content in America. Papers expect surfers to pay up.

Who Will Buy the Music? Scott Rosenberg wonders, "When all the file traders are in jail, who'll be left to buy music?"

The Internet as The Social Commons SALON.com -- The Internet has become a social commons, rather than an information marketplace, confounding media pros who are used to selling viewer numbers to advertisers.

The 19th Century Internet CONTEXT MAG.com -- Today the telegraph is forgotten. What happened to it? And what does its fate say about what lies ahead for the Internet? If you find it hard to believe that the Internet is merely a modern twist on a 19th-century system, consider the many striking parallels.

Boxes & Arrows: Small Pieces, Big Thoughts BOXES AND ARROWS -- This book is less focused on the practicalities of business than Cluetrain, and is more a treatise on how the Internet and all massively shared internetworked environments (for the book, conflated to the common term "the Web") are changing us as social beings.

Information Architecture in Today's Business Environment NAVARTS.com -- This whitepaper answers the 10 most critical questions. Here's the blurb from the NavigationArts site With the overwhelming quantity and demand for information, organizations are starting to think about the nature of their business's institutional knowledge, content and information and its increased burden on today's organization to find an effective means of collection and distribution. To best meet this need, information architecture helps to organize, prioritize and manage the generation, capture and distribution of information. This white paper addresses the ten most critical questions about information architecture in respect to its value in today's evolving business environment.

WiFi Card Holders are Additive Revenue Starbucks, HP, and T-Mobile might be announcing strategic links. The additive revenue for Starbucks comes from the "after the morning rush" people who want a WiFi link and a cappuccino.

Flaw in Apache Software ZDNET.com -- We know there are problems with W2K server. Now there is a new flaw in Apache.

Sighting: kartoo.com OPEN -- A sweet Flash front-end is bolted onto Kartoo, a very slick search engine. Its great use of metadata provides search options and shows the relationships between search results.

Going Wireless without an AirPort Card MAC OSX HINTS.com -- Going wireless without an AirPort card