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Saturday, July 06, 2002 |
Sanyo demo WiFi compatible digital camera. Sanyo Japan has today posted a press release about their development of a prototype wireless network digital camera. In parallel they are also demonstrating this prototype at NETWORLD + INTEROP 2002 TOKYO. The... [Digital Photography Review (dpreview.com)]
Hmm, does this mean that a hacker could download, delete or otherwise play with your camera without detection? As more appliances go wireless I wonder how much effort is going into making sure that attacks to them are prevented. Will we start seeing patches for our various wireless gadgets to plug security holes that making them wireless open up?
3:37:30 PM 
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Weblogs as lab notebooks.
The Chronicle: 7/5/2002: 'Superarchives' Could Hold All Scholarly Output. Quote: "Several colleges are now looking to share more of that work by building "institutional repositories" online and inviting their professors to upload copies of their research papers, data sets, and other work. The idea is to gather as much of the intellectual output of an institution as possible in an easy-to-search online collection."
Comment:The final solution will be distributed, but some interesting links in this piece. MIT again leading the way. If you go to most university home pages, it's usually quite a challenge to find their current research in any kind of systematic way. [Serious Instructional Technology]
A key observation from the article:
"The whole power of science is the power of shared ideas, not the power of hidden ideas," says Paul Jones, associate professor of information and library science at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. "Science advances when there's a free exchange of ideas. We move faster by being open. We know this, but we have disincentives right now to openness."
So, here's a gedanken experiment for you. Setup each incoming Ph.D. or Master's candidate with a weblog at the beginning of their program. Coach them to use the weblog as a lab notebook of their developing intellectual capital. Use your own weblog to comment on their work and their thinking. Where do you think these students will be after several years of sustained and steady writing? How many will have already started to establish reputations as serious thinkers?
Sure, there will be lots of resistance to the idea. It threatens many a sacred cow. Make the initial experiments local or semi-private. Long-term you're still likely to kill the existing system by substituting real-time peer review for the current unwieldy system.
[McGee's Musings]
3:30:44 PM
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Unstructured content. Martin Butler has written a brief and to-the-point article highlighting that 80% of the content in an organisation is "unstructured", [Column Two] [McGee's Musings]
I've also heard that 80% of information that gets stored is never retrieved again. This was in regards to the 'old' file cabinet method of information storage.
3:30:01 PM
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"Christina", who's 11, almost 12, has been playing alot with her friend Aeysha on neopets.com. Out of interest I looked to see what they're about. The info I sought was handily placed on the 'About us' page of course :-) Their business model is something they call Immersive Advertising. Interesting concept and totally out of reach of non-immersed parental units. They've got some cute research to back up their sucessful claims. And what's with this 'confidential' crap? [Adam Curry: Adam Curry's Weblog]
Jenny is also into this, I don't really get it. She certainly likes it though.
10:12:23 AM
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Moving everything to the laptop after my desktop failed. Testing if I did everything correct.
9:36:36 AM
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