• Technorati with CNN at the Democratic National Convention

    Posted on July 22, 2004

    Weinberger picked up the post about Technorati providing blog information during the Democratic National Convention. The story has been picked up and spread all over the place by the blogging “in crowd”, but I figured I would spread it here also cause it seems like I have more of a... [Read More]

  • The State of Mapping

    Posted on July 16, 2004

    infogargoyle has a post about mapmaking, in particular the use of RDF to collaboratively define space. I’m surprized that a strong open source community hasn’t already started to form around mapping for mobile devices. Maybe it has and I just don’t know about it yet? I see projects like OpenGIS... [Read More]

  • Now That Bluetooth Is Alive, It's Dead Again

    Posted on July 15, 2004

    TheFeature has an article, Now That Bluetooth Is Alive, It’s Dead Again, which is a nice even bit of commentary about Bluetooth. I am actually pretty surprised that Bluetooth sales have picked up the way that they have. I’m a pretty heavy Bluetooth fan I guess. Maybe fan isn’t the... [Read More]

  • Educators Corner

    Posted on July 15, 2004

    At the AlwaysOn conference Tom Byers mentioned the Stanford Technology Ventures Program Educators Corner. The web site has a number of video clips from famous or interesting people in business, talking about the kinds of things they normally talk about at conferences. But you can download them any time and... [Read More]

  • AlwaysOn Web Cast

    Posted on July 14, 2004

    There’s a web cast from AlwaysOn today and tomorrow. There’s also an event wiki at SocialText. And a few of us have jointed #alwayson on irc.freenode.net instead of using the live chat they have setup.

  • An introduction to open-source hardware development

    Posted on July 12, 2004

    Mohamed Salem mailed me to say that his article An introduction to open-source hardware development was published in EEDesign. Congratulations Mohamed and Jamil!! He mailed me a copy while he was still working on it, and I’ve been anxiously awaiting the publication so that I pontificate on the subject without... [Read More]

  • Bay Area Mobility Forum

    Posted on July 10, 2004

    We just finished up the pre-forum forum meeting of the Bay Area Mobility Forum (BAMF). I hung around to drink more cause, well, I have a GPRS connection and it’s nice out :-) The meeting was actually really good. What we’ve decided to do is have a few relatively low-key... [Read More]

  • Spontaneous Collaboration

    Posted on July 10, 2004

    I’ve been thinking a bunch about what makes people contribute to shared online systems. I mean both public systems like wikis or shared blogs, and private systems like a corporate mailing list or intranet site. CommunityWiki has lots of great information about this topic in general. There are a bunch... [Read More]

  • Thunderbird and Enigmail

    Posted on July 8, 2004

    I just installed Gentoo on my girlfriends old laptop, and I’ve started using Thunderbird as my mail client. I do miss some of the features of Nautilus, like correct as you go spellcheck (not sure what the name for the feature is, where there’s a colored underline under misspelled words... [Read More]

  • Darwin.com

    Posted on July 6, 2004

    There’s been a lot of talk lately about trying to get Sun to open source Java (my personal favorite article is at theRegister). The arguments are good on both sides, and the debates have brought to light some areas that aren’t very well explored. I don’t care all that much... [Read More]