New York Times on employer weblog intervention
of the The New York Times published an article in Monday's business section on employer intervention over employee weblogs. I am featured in the article.
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Women want compassion?
What do women want in a man? NPR's Lori Gottlieb tackles the question of do women really want a sensitive man or do they just say that and date the beer guzzling NASCAR guy? I like Lori's take on the subject. Women want someone to be sensitive to her problems but not sensitive about his own problems. He is in control and she can rely on him emotionally. There should be a follow up piece focused on the men….
Olympic medal tally by population
Australian Bureau of Statistics released a chart showing Athens 2004 Olympic medals taking into account a country's population. Bahamas is #1 on the list with a total population of 317,000 and one gold medal. Even though the U.S. leads the total medal count with 25 gold medals it places 29th in per-capita medals….
Mark Cuban’s new blog
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…
FOAF Vocabulary Specification 1.56
FOAF Vocabulary Specification is updated to include a primary topic, personal profile document, and a tipjar. Version 1.56. I updated my FOAF file to include the personal profile document….
Bruce Schneier’s Crypto-Gram RSS
Bruce Schneier's Crypto-Gram newsletter is now available as a RSS feed….
Wired News : BitTorrent meets RSS
Paul Boutin of Wired News profiles a new tool by Andrew Grumet to combine RSS and BitTorrent….
Caffeine.Net: Java and .Net interoperability
The Olympum Group released Caffeine.Net 0.1 after about a year of development. Use the best of both worlds. Caffeine transfers APIs between .NET and Java and can run code written for one platform on the other platform. Caffeine.Net is based on Mono and has a MIT license. (via Cafe au Lait Java)…
BitTorrent 3.4.1
Bram Cohen released BitTorrent 3.4.1 yesterday. Better support for peers with dynamic IPs. (see track.py) Clients also cache peers longer. Bencode is also faster, using int instead of long….
Starbucks digital music store
Starbucks will launch its own digital music offering next Tuesday, March 16, according to BusinessWeek. 250,000 songs accessed through a HP Tablet PC and burned in the store. Minimum purchase is 5 songs for $6.99 ($1.40 a song). The service will expand to 2,500 stores in the next two years….
PubSub EDGAR feeds
PubSub lets you create a RSS feed for any company or individual with a central index code in the SEC database. Very cool….
Star Trek: Borg Invasion 4D
Next week Las Vegas Hilton will open Star Trek: Borg Invasion 4D. The Hollywood Reporter reviews some of the technical aspects of the attraction. First Star Trek production to be shot digitally. They liken the picture quality to when stereo became surround sound. I was at the opening of Star Trek: The Experience in 1998 and I was impressed. The cast members supposedly had to go through 18 months of training before opening day, preparing them to deal with the toughest trivia Trekkie. The casino area surrounding the attraction is decorated to look like a casino from the 24th century:…
Salon Media Group reopens Washington, D.C. office
Salon Media Group will expand operations and reopen its Washington, D.C. office. The office is led by Sidney Blumenthal, former aide to President Clinton, and former staff writer for The New Republic, The Washington Post and The New Yorker. Salon.com has more than 3 million readers a month, of which 74,000 are paying subscribers….
Reuters : Resume Fraud Gets Slicker and Easier
Reuters published an article today about how background searches are now being manipulated in the hiring process. Phone numbers to confirm a phony degree, crackers adding a name to a university's database, and even transcripts are for sale. "ADP Screening and Selection Services, in a 2003 study, found that more than 50 percent of the people on whom it conducted employment and education checks had submitted false information, compared with about 40 percent in 2002" How long will it take before third party verification services (think VeriSign Secure Seal) step in for hosted resumes? Would the market bite?…
Wall Street Journal : Microsoft’s failure to innovate
Lee Gomes of the Wall Street Journal asks: What does the world get for the 10% Microsoft tax on every PC? (via Slashdot) "When asked which research from its labs has made its way into Microsoft products, the list from Microsoft officials doesn't exactly bowl over a listener: better software-verification techniques, digital media-player technologies, additions to the SQL database language."…
Steve Gillmor interviews Sun EVP Jonathan Schwartz
Steve Gillmor interviewed Jonathan Schwartz, executive vice president of Sun Microsystems' software group, about Sun's plans to include RSS feeds in everything they do. Schwartz also has some good insights into what makes good software for enterprise users as well as developers. "Right now the overwhelming, the preponderance, of feedback we have from customers about what they want from a desktop from Sun is security, familiarity, and affordability —and almost typically in that order." "Developers don't buy things, they join things. That's the epitome of our developer strategy. Give them a community to join."…
Adobe Designer public beta
Adobe Systems announced today the public beta availability of Adobe Designer, a new point-and-click graphical XML form design tool for designing and deploying intelligent forms in Adobe PDF or HTML….
New York Times : Tickle
Saul Hansell profiles Tickle in Monday's New York Times. Create a site specializing in helping people discover various aspects of themselves. Add social networking and job connections and a smart business model develops….
BitTorrent 3.4
Bram Cohen released BitTorrent 3.4 yesterday. Notes lots of bandwidth savings and lots of bug fixes over last September's point release….
Jason Shellen’s Google Blogger webcam
Jason Shellen, who works in the Blogger department at Google, has a webcam serving pictures of the Blogger office. (via evhead) Interesting that Blogger, Feedster, and Technorati are full of Mac people….
Wayback Machine brings my past entries to life
Before I ever started using weblogging tools I edited HTML by hand in weblog style. Thanks to the Internet Archive's Wayback Machine, I just went back to my UCLA site and gathered entries as old as October 2000. I tried to keep everything as it was, but took out broken images and patched up some code to make it XHTML compliant….
Macworld First Look : Office 2004
Macworld takes a look at the new features included in Office 2004 for Mac….
Vulcan Ventures Project Halo
Luke Timmerman of the Seattle Times wrote about one of Paul Allen's new ventures last month. Project Halo will attempt to program a computer in the next 30 months to create a computerized tutor that's smart enough to pass college-level Advanced Placement tests in chemistry, biology and physics. Teams from the University of Texas at Austin, Boeing Phantom Works, the University of Massachusetts Lowell and Kraka, Carnegie Mellon University, iSoco, Stanford Medical Informatics, the University of Southern California's Information Science Institute, KSVentures and Klein Associates will compete to complete the task….
Verizon call forwarding to your airplane seat
Verizon Wireless now supports call forwarding to in-flight telephones in airplanes using Verizon Airfone service. $0.69 a minute, or $10 a month subscription plus $0.10 a minute….
Family Guy coming back in 2005
Family Guy will return to TV for as many as 35 episodes beginning in January 2005 according to an IGN.com interview with creator Seth MacFarlane. E! Online News also has coverage….