Donnerstag, 27. März 2003

10 years ago ago today: Married.

We're famous - almost: Mobitobia is linked to from the Guardian.

Publishing a project weblog: Jon Udell writes on using weblogs to manage projects. Added comments are here.

The War is .. mobile: Which mobile-network should be established in Iraq? Well, the Americans are already working that one out.

Macromedia to announce new product: Dave is blogging a little heads-up on a new Macromedia product to be announced later today.

XMLForm forked from Cocoon? It would seem that the Cocoon tornado has not yet left.

The First Internet War? Ben has written a good summary on war, weblogs and the Internet for the Observer. Embedding reporters (over 600 of them if I heard right) in with the troops was a stroke of genius. Trouble is it only works - if you are winning comfortably. It will backfire on you big-time if you start losing. Imagine the first journalist shot live on CNN as the videophone is rolling.

Time passes on interesting applications: At last year's OSCON I met a couple of very nice and interesting guys - I then hung out with during the week. One of them is Steve, with whom I still have a  rapport. Someone else was Greg Elin. At OSCON he showed me a version of a tool he is working on called fotonotes . It allows you to annotate pictures and include information on parts of the image in the actual image itself. Even the first version I saw back in July 2002 looked very interesting. And what do you know - here it is on Dan Gillmor's Weblog.

Congratulations: Mum manages to connect her HP 320 printer up to her new Toshiba laptop. On her own! Need help with your hardware - call her - she knows stuff.

Blog sends him back: Christopher Allbritton has raised over $10.000 via his weblog and is now going back-to-iraq to report from there.

Twingle, Twingle, little star: Twingle is an developing story in the CMS client arena Twingle is a tool for content authors to work with networked information. The project is focused on improving three parts of the content management experience: Locating, Creating, and Collaborating. Each of these will be simpler, faster, and more powerful for average people that work with WCM (web content management) systems. The client is written in Mozilla and uses standard HTTP methods for communicating with OSCOM content management systems. Although Twingle is aimed at OSCOM content management systems, the description shows that it will be able to communicate with other CMS if they support the standards.

Mac OS X 10.3 details: MacRumors is reporting some details on the upcoming version of Mac OS X.

Musicians turn to Net: In a strange twist of events, musicians in the US are actually turning to the Net as a way of getting the message out. Anti-war songs are not popular on US radio stations at the moment and so stars like REM are distributing their songs via the Web. For free. This is the strongest voice I could think of to send out there. We had to send something out there now. We are praying and hoping for the lives of all people involved, the troops, the Iraqi civilians, refugees, pow's, families of troops, the innocents-- that they are safe and okay. Safe home, all. --Michael Stipe