Saturday, January 18, 2003

Spam Conference Trip Report. Spam Conference Trip Report Yesterday was the first ever Spam Conference and it was held at MIT.  First off I have to give huge kudos to Paul Graham the organizer.  In a little over a month he put together a truly outstanding conference --- and the interest level was astonishing.  They expected "50 to 60" and instead 560 signed up.  And since the room was basically full and it held 566 by number of seats, I'd say roughly 520 to 540 actually made it.  And don't think that these were all local MIT geeks either; I sat next to a researcher from IBM Zurich, had lunch with people from Cloudmark (San Francisco), met the founder of pobox (Philadelphia), spoke with Tony Bowden at length (England) and others.  Presentations came from BrightMail, Popfile, Microsoft France, MIT, Mitsubishi Electric Research Lab, ShopIP, MessageLabs and others. Most of the discussions focused on "Naive Statistical Bayesian Classifiers" such as iFile and Popfile (although many other systems were represented including other types).  If I can find the papers online I'll post links to them.  Otherwise Google for them from the info at the Spam Conference page.  More on the conference later or tomorrow.[The FuzzyBlog] 11:50:33 PM   comment []>   Former KPMG Consulting cuts staff again. BearingPoint to slash workforce by about 700 [InfoWorld: Top News] I guess it is still happening.  I was hoping the layoffs would end in the new year.   I understand my former employer, Cap Gemini, is still laying off too. 11:48:14 PM   comment []>   Weblog Growth. Tim Jarret measures the growth rate of weblogs. A week ago I thought that we might see an uptick in the slope of the growth of Weblogs.com activity, as measured by the high water mark, in coming months. All it took was one little Supreme Court case to do it. The site hit a new high water mark yesterday that was more than 100 weblogs higher than the previous mark (during the MacWorld SF 2003 keynote; this is a hint that increased activity on existing blogs is a major driver of the high water mark). The figure of merit is now 2.8, back to where it was in October. Note: the time period is approximately 1 year. [Ross Mayfield's Weblog] 5:05:25 PM   comment []>   GeoURL ICBM Address Server (see higher-resolution maps) GeoURL is a location-to-URL reverse directory. This will allow you to find URLs by their proximity to a given location. Find your neighbor's blog, perhaps, or the web page of the restaurants near you.    And you can add yourself to the database. 4:47:15 PM   comment []>   Get the 411 on 802.11g, especially AirPort Extreme: My book co-author Adam Engst and I have co-written a 3,000-word article on the state of 802.11g equipment including an enormous amount of detail about AirPort Extreme: both the Base Station and the AirPort Extreme Card. This article will be available next week as a downloadable PDF with illustrations and photos, too. (And remember: we launched an Apple AirPort-specific blog earlier this week, too, for all your AirPort needs and questions.)[80211b News] Good news for us wireless freaks.   I want "g". 4:17:30 PM   comment []>   I'm starting to see some of my groove contacts running 2.5. When can I play? By the way, GWS is now featured at groove.net.  A couple whitepapers, a FAQ, a features list, and links to articles.  [Matt Pope's Radio Weblog] [Blogging Alone] I agree.   I use Groove and want to use it with Sharepoint.   If 2.5 is ready, it should be made available.  Why wait? 4:05:31 PM   comment []>   Scanning images into Photoshop I am working with Photoshop and ImageReady today, scanning photographs of my wife Barbara's paintings.  I will add them to her web site.  I am reminded as I do this just how wonderful these programs are.  And with newer faster processors, it is not as painful as it once was.  Progress! 3:38:57 PM   comment []>

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