Tuesday, May 31, 2005

Taking Notes

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Not to, in any way, equate myself with Fischer Black (of Black-Scholes option pricing fame), but I was struck by a recent posting in Margina...

Convergence

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The term "convergence" may be passe these days, but the question of which devices will fold into other devices is still of immens...
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Folksonomies?

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John Dvorak's been writing about computers since the early days of PCs. Does he like to be controversial? Sure. That's his thing. An...
Thursday, May 26, 2005

BBS Documentary

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For the young 'uns that's Bulletin Board Systems. Before the Internet was democratized, there were BBS's. At their largest, they...
Monday, May 23, 2005

So Apple's Jumped On the Podcasting Bandwagon

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Actually it was more like a ginger step, but the Steve says that iTunes 4.9 will get podcasting support . I suppose it's the least they ...
Friday, May 20, 2005

Illuminata Perspectives is Live

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In addition to here on Connections, I will now also be posting about IT topics to Illuminata Perspectives . Posts that veer close to mainstr...
Thursday, May 19, 2005

Time To Revisit Micropayments?

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"Micropayments" were part of the Boom's lexicon. But they never really went much of anywhere. Instead, everything was "fr...

Score One for the Littler (But Not So Little) Guy

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So Walmart is getting out of the online video rental business in favor of a partnership with Netflix. Blockbuster then promptly took the op...
Wednesday, May 18, 2005

The Expanding Linkosphere

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It seems like every day we're seeing various information that we've stored away for our own benefit being open up and linked to othe...
Tuesday, May 10, 2005

The Sorry State of Collaboration

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Stephen O'Grady writes here: One of the reasons I think applications like Trumba are important is that I think calendar applications ar...

A Hilarious Spoof...

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of high-tech marketing creative.
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Wednesday, May 04, 2005

Life is Random...

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or at least multi-dimensional. Tablets are an idea that refuses to either truly live or truly die. It's an idea that certainly has its e...
Wednesday, April 27, 2005

The Nikon RAW Format Rumpus

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There's been considerable noise from many quarters over the Adobe vs. Nikon tiff about Nikon encrypting the white balance data in its m...
Monday, April 25, 2005

Considering (ID3) tags

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I've had occasion to be thinking about certain types of metadata recently. Actually, that's a somewhat pretentious and jargon-y way ...
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Friday, April 22, 2005

Adobe-Macromedia Humor

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This Translation From PR-Speak to English of Selected Portions of Adobe’s ‘FAQ’ Regarding Their Acquisition of Macromedia is both priceless...
Wednesday, April 20, 2005

Some Additional Good License Commentary

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from Tim Bray as well. I likewise have wondered all along about the dual-licensing option (i.e. license OpenSolaris under both the GPL and C...

The Open Source license debate continues

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Simon Phipps over at Sun has, what seems to me, a particularly nice overview of the three main Open Source license "families." BS...
Wednesday, April 13, 2005

If We Buy It, Will Use Come?

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I'm sure that we've all had the experience of buying something that we just had to have and then, after the excited opening of the U...
Monday, April 11, 2005

The Centralized Ideal

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So many of our network-inspired ideals imply--directly or indirectly--a hankering for a neat-and-tidy cenralized sense of authority and cont...

Wikipedia Redux

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Lat year, when Wikipedia was still a discovery to be made even for many in the technorati, I effused praise . Since that time I've had a...
Friday, April 08, 2005

Open Source Incivility Redux

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For the most part, I try to keep mostly out of the politics and inside-the-beltway debate around Open Source and concentrate on the technolo...
Thursday, April 07, 2005

Onfolio Serendipity

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As I noted earlier , one of the things that annoyed me about Microsoft OneNote was its relatively weak tools for capturing information off ...
Wednesday, April 06, 2005

Tablet PC, Phantom PC

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A few of my recent posts have had me passing over various software packages because I don't have a Tablet PC. Am I an oddball (at least ...
Tuesday, April 05, 2005

Notes and Mind Maps

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If someone hasn't preached the gospel of mind maps to you yet, don't worrry--they will. I'm not going to delve into them in any ...
Monday, April 04, 2005

Text Editing Rediscovered

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So, what do you suppose I settled on after spending way too much time over several weeks testing various programs for notetaking? (OneNote a...