Friday, March 07, 2003

Schwartzchild Radius Discovered Sucking Posts into Black Hole: Security holes found in Google's Blogger [InfoWorld: Top News] 12:40:29 PM    comment []

Blarney Blog, the Beer Be Cold: Pubs are good hot spot locale choice in UK: The BBC writes briefly about Inspired's plans to roll out thousands of hot spots alongside gaming machines. I'd failed to mention yesterday that British Telecom has already committed to using the vendor-neutral network Inspired is setting up, which allows BT to attain their 4,000 hot spot goal quite a bit faster than installing it on their own. [80211b News] 12:38:45 PM    comment []

Zen Blog Masters: Web Zen: Crafty Geeky Zen [bOing bOing] 12:35:34 PM    comment []

Do What Thou Wilt Shall Be the Whole of the Law: Don't mess with 802.11g, researcher warns. Wait for certification - Gartner [The Register] 12:27:04 PM    comment []

Over 1 Million Served: Mac Net CNET News.Com is the first RSS source to, according to our monitoring app, deliver over 1 million stories to Radio users. Scripting News isn't far behind, with 954,606. [Scripting News] 12:22:40 PM    comment []

Framework, System, Dynamic Business Process, Knowledge Management... Two open source projects for EAI. The open source projects Proteus and Babeldoc both announced new releases. Although they look very different (one is a "framework", the other is a "system"), both are written in Java, support XML, EJBs and JDBC databases and do not hide the fact that EAI is their vocation. [xmlhack] 12:13:43 PM    comment []

Not all UNIX is Open Source: Developers Back IBM in Unix Suit. Open-source developers rally behind IBM after learning that SCO Group, formerly Caldera Systems, is suing IBM for disclosure of SCO's intellectual property in the form of Unix code. By Michelle Delio. [Wired News] 12:10:50 PM    comment []

BI-WIFI: D-Link ships dual-band 802.11 gear [CNET News.com] 12:09:49 PM    comment []

I Suggest Silicon Chaulk from GE: It Helped with the 75 Windows on my Leaky Passive Solar Geodesic Dome that I Built in the 80s Week in review: Leaky Windows. Microsoft has had some trouble holding on to its software lately, with versions of its popular programs finding their way on to the Internet before their intended release. [CNET News.com] 12:09:07 PM    comment []

MTSU Speakers and Students Practice Free Speech, Get Investigated by TBI: http://www.oomny.net Report on the MTSU Anti-War demonstration. 10:08:21 AM    comment []

Plausable Denial, International Humanitarian Law, The Universal Declaration of Human Rights, and Charles Darwin: Semi-concrete proof that America resorts to torture?. Does America Torture? "The men's death certificates, made public earlier this week, showed that one captive...died from 'blunt force injuries to lower extremities complicating coronary artery disease' while another ...from [a] blood clot in the lung that was exacerbated by a 'blunt force injury'." What steps are we taking in our "war on terror"? What if other countries decide to treat our civilians as "enemy combatants"? Is the Pax Americana so important that we must resort to torture, or, as is most often the case, giving up prisoners to countries that are known torturers? [MetaFilter] 10:02:04 AM    comment []

Neutrality in War and Business is Wisdom: Three years ago today: "I just realized something about Microsoft. To most people, including people at Microsoft, you're either anti-Microsoft or pro-Microsoft. Then thinking about it some more, this isn't just true of Microsoft. It's also true of Apple. And it's also true of Linux. And Open Source. And it's not just about computers either. It's pretty much everywhere. And it's total bullshit."  [Scripting News] 9:58:58 AM    comment []

More Google-Blogger Blowback: I read this article about Google-Blogger and let it sink in over night. Sorry I totally don't agree. A Web app that tracks where I go is not creating a weblog. Of course search engine guys would look for a way to automate writing so you don't need a human being. But what comes out the other end is the expression of a machine. Now I'm sure a machine can be taught to write, but writing is not work, like lifting something, or moving it. Automating my writing has zero value to me (and presumably everyone else). I guess you'd have to be a writer to understand this. Or maybe you have to understand software. Or maybe you have to do both? Whatever. You can safely stop searching for meaning in the Glogger-Bloogle deal, there isn't any.   [Scripting News] 9:57:25 AM    comment []

Are you Sponge Worthy? Many Women Gleeful at Old Friend's Encore. A Web site set up to distribute new supplies of the Today Sponge, a contraceptive that was discontinued in 1994, received so many hits that it crashed. By Kate Zernike. [New York Times: NYT HomePage] 9:55:49 AM    comment []

ZEN Mind, Beginner's Mind: The NET According to Blogmaster's Doc and DR Understanding the Net. Doc Searls and David Weinberger: World of Ends. What the Internet Is and How to Stop Mistaking It for Something... [Dan Gillmor's eJournal] 9:53:57 AM    comment []

ITEOFWAWKIAIFF: worldofends.com. It's not the end of the world, it's the World of Ends. Doc Searls and David Weinberger, from the Cluetrain Manifesto, come up trying to elucidate "what the Internet is and how to stop mistaking it for something else" in 10 points. In a way it captures back what we could call the "nature of the web" (if it has one - a hint: YES! it has), but it's not a statement, it's more like an inviting - to join, to understand. The question is... "can you hear us Recording Industry?". [MetaFilter] 9:51:26 AM    comment []

Library Information Science and the Web: The LISFeeds portal is a centralized RSS aggregator for library science professionals. We have a similar aggregator at Harvard Law.  [Scripting News] 9:49:37 AM    comment []

Microsoft and Small Business: The Misfortune 5,000,000: Technology Briefing: Software. MICROSOFT TO INVEST $2 BILLION IN PROGRAMS;. [New York Times: Technology] 9:46:44 AM    comment []

Doc Searls and Dr. Weinberger Transmit the Ancient and Accepted Mystical Wisdom of the NET: Make no mistake. Dr. Weinberger and I decided to sum up a whole bunch of stuff in one big site: World of Ends: What the Internet Is and How to stop Mistaking It for Something Else. If you know anybody who's into being all dumb about the Net, this is the place to send them. Of course, it's good for people being smart too. They just don't need it as much. As with both our blogs, World of Ends is dedicated to the public domain. Do with it what you like. The good doctor explains more here. [Later...] Linkages: Technorati Link Cosmos QuickTopic comment form Kevin Marks Eric Norlin Meg Hourihan Bruce Umbaugh The Flux GioList Tony Steidler-Dennison Jim Flowers Ben Hammersley Stretching Thought Jonathan Peterson Raging Cow blog Wowblog Julian Bond Dot-coma Sérgio Carvalho (this too) Flemming Funch World of Ends g-link count as of this morning: 75 A thought: This thing needs some fun graphics, don't you think? I'm thinking of some kind of Koosh ball drawing that represents the World of Ends we call the Net. Volunteers, hm? [The Doc Searls Weblog] 9:44:21 AM    comment []