27 December 2002

Sighting: Ceiva Internet Picture Frame CEIVA -- My father is proud to be ungoogleable. Well, he thinks he's not in Google, but he's wrong. Dad doesn't trust this Internet stuff, but he enjoys contact. I'm sure he would enjoy a Ceiva digital picture frame. You hang this Internet-enabled frame near a phone line and it calls out for new photos. The traditional frame houses an LCD screen that displays up to 20 pictures in a single-view or slide-show format. Once a day, the frame dials in to Ceiva's Web site and downloads any new photos that have been sent to a special Internet address. This is so unintrusive that my dad would never know he was using an Internet connection in the house. [Thanks to Xeni Jardin and Karlin Lillington for reminding me.]   [Comment on Shoptalk]

Collaboration Tools in Homeland Defense Paul Boutin -- Following a NYT story, Paul Boutin found a TIA screen shot that shows the Groove interface using P2P architecture grounded in XML. [Mark Lazaroff in a Groove release and John Markoff: "Many Big Brother Tools Are Up and Running," and Paul Boutin: "TIA Screen Shot" and Dave Winer]   [Comment on Shoptalk]

Year of the Blog TECH CENTRAL STATION -- So if 2002 is "The Year of the Blog" we might watch 2003 pan out as "The Year of Blog Rot." While 2003 will see the increased expansion of blogs into areas such as research and learning, blogs will also rot away. They're too time-intensive for most authors. Many employers equate them to time-wasting. And few bloggers have learned techniques of knowledge logging where they could distill blogged content into action-based knowledge objects. [Glenn Harlan Reynolds and "Essential Web Journaling"]   [Comment on Shoptalk]