Wednesday, October 22, 2003

Flying Around With A Tablet PC Interesting post on the unique use of a tablet PC in Popular Science.  As an ex-Army aviator with over 1,200 hours in AH-1 Cobras/UH-1 Hueys/OH-58 Kiowas - this would have been a great tool not only for flight nav - but for cockpit map management - although its easier to wipe two day old coffee off of a 1:50,000 paper map than the screen/keyboard of a tablet pc.  Excerpt:  Pilots may also benefit substantially from the new machines, particularly as flight-planning software and GPS-based moving-map products become integral to aviation at all levels. But outfitting a private airplane with the latest in GPS technology can run easily into the high five figures - and buying any of the specialized "electronic flightbag" units that serve similar functions to tablet computers heads quickly toward the high four digits. The tablet PC, however, is a glass-cockpit on a budget?one that you can take with you in any aircraft and which happily serves double-duty as your conventional laptop computer.     10:25:04 AM    comment []

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Business Blogging - It would be a mistake to dismiss the blogging phenomenon. Excellent discussions on Business Blogging from Jim Carroll ("It would be a mistake to dismiss the blogging phenomenon, because I think we are witnessing the emergence of a significant, new customer relationship tool.") and Dan Gillmor ("But the advantage goes past image-making. Bloggers tend to be listeners, not just talkers. And companies that listen -- really listen -- have an enormous advantage in a Cluetraining world."). 10:02:01 AM    comment []

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