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This week’s Software Development Conference & Expo featured a panel of software experts discussing the past and future of software engineering. Susan Lammers, author of Programmers At Work, chaired the panel. Panelists were Dan Bricklin, Robert Carr, Andy Hertzfeld, Scott Kim, Jaron Lanier, Ray Ozzie, Jef Raskin, and Charles Simonyi.
Scott Rosenberg has a pretty thorough write-up on Salon.com.
Jena McGreggor discusses corporate weblogs in the April issue of Fast Company. Some of the uses mentioned, such as project status, seem like candidates for a wiki instead of a weblog. The article makes Scoble seem like a marketing arm of Microsoft, in the same class as Macromedia blogs. I would have liked to see mention of Scoble having a Userland weblog and not a MSDN weblog.
Robert Scoble may well be one of the most powerful people in Redmond right now.
A trusted group of employees started blogs to answer users’ questions, and the blogs have grown into online communities that give Macromedia valuable customer feedback.
HP announced the HP Rugged Tablet tr3000 today. Can withstand 26 three foot drops onto plywood over concrete. Rainwater resistant. Up to 3 RF modems. It has a 8.4 inch screen and weighs 3.7 lbs. Starts at $3500. I am enjoying Mark Cuban’s new blog. An inside look at the industry from a well known source. During his 60 Minutes interview aired February 15, 2004 Steve Kroft mentions that “his email address is posted on the Mavericks’ Web site so he can get feedback from the fans. He answers as many as he can during halftime.”
In today’s entry Mark Cuban creates a 360 degree view of reporter and his subject, and invites the public into an otherwise private conversation.
I told them that rather than providing any commentary or quotes to them on this matter, or on any upcoming matters, I would be posting whatever I had to say on my blog. They were not happy. “How are we going to ask you follow up questions?” I explained that he could email me directly or from the site, but that I would most likely post his question and my response.
Bathroom Mania has a new urinal, Kisses, “shaped like a woman’s mouth, dolled up with red lipstick, wide open and ready for business.” Fashion Wire Daily reported on these new additions to the new Virgin Airways Clubhouse in New York’s John F. Kennedy airport.