BW.  Googling deep data.  The devil, as usual, is in the details. Google has decided that its customers should gather information through inputs of text search terms by using more or less the same simple interface to search for news, things to buy, or any other topic. That's a small but important distinction. Google assumes that customers are smart enough to learn to search with words rather than with the graphical and pull-down menus used by most of its competitors. That's an understandable bet. Google has gone from upstart to Internet star with a business plan based on that assumption.  NOTE:  I am more interested in a flexible set of tabs that doesn't force me to add strange operators.  For example, let me dump the Directory and "groups" tabs, I don't use them.  [John Robb's Weblog]

9:08:29 AM    

Arthur C. Clarke. As WorldChanging often links to sites and stories which reflect the ideas and activities of younger people, it is worth noting that one of my heroes, a person whose ideas and values parallel those of WorldChanging, just turned 86 years... [WorldChanging: Another World Is Here]

8:59:25 AM    

Doc Searls - It's the Story, Stupid.

Seeing through slides.

Scott Rosenberg: The single deadliest thing a speaker can do is read from his own slides. Agreed. It always exasperates me to see slides used as speakers notes rather than as helpful visual aids.

Want to know how to give a good presentation with slides? Here's what I learned from two masters. It's more than a half-decade old, but its tips are no less useful.

[The Doc Searls Weblog]

I've used this before as part of teaching presentation skills to consultants. Blogging it now so I can find it again later.

[McGee's Musings]

8:52:14 AM    

New weblog - Abusable Technology.

Coordination trifecta: Abusable Tech (Clay Shirky). To make a trilogy of places where the net’s coordination costs change the nature of collaboration, I add a link to Abusable Tech, a weblog devoted to chronicling abuse or misuse of security tools, to today’s earlier posts about Howard... [Many-to-Many]

An all-star list of contributors to the new blog. There is an RSS feed , although I really, really, wish that the default out of Moveable Type was a full feed instead of the niggardly first 30 words or so. It's a design decision that appears rooted in old assumptions.

[McGee's Musings]

6:06:03 AM