Tuesday, November 7, 2006

More on Patents Following the Kawasaki piece on patents in my River of News on my RSS Aggregator is this NY Times piece on a patent troll now going after Palm. 4:18:47 PM    comment []

Patent Protection Many of you are involved with patents -- getting them, defending them, etc. Here's a thread on Guy Kawasaki's blog about patents. Interesting reading. 4:15:04 PM    comment []

Web 2.0 Want to know what Web 2.0 is all about. Here's the Top 10 Lies. 4:07:15 PM    comment []

Vote I did my duty and voted today. The woman at the table says, "Hi Gary, how you  doing? Can I see your ID?" Those cagey Republicans in Ohio want to make sure nobody crossed the border from Michigan in order to vote, I guess. It's a new requirement that has confused everyone. We have a new type of ballot--like those old scantron test answer sheets. We have 7 precincts voting at one location. There are two scantron machines. After you vote, then you stand in line to put your answer sheet, er ballot, into the machine. It's a little bit of a pain, but on the other hand it beats the Diebold system where you have no assurance that your vote is being tabulated. Two "briefings" today. Solectron evidently is looking to push into the industrial space. The other is a company I've never heard of who does wikis for business collaboration. Sounds interesting. Maybe something we can implement at Automation World. 10:58:24 AM    comment []

Modeling and Control There are some new postings at Modeling & Control. They always have intelligent information there. It's a place to go to learn a lot about process control. 7:11:18 AM    comment []