Archive | 2003

Software you can install on your desktop to respond to a hack attack on your computer. Just in time! Free software gives hackers taste of own medicine. Controversial retaliation fromThe Register

After some sweet weather in the 60s in the past week, a little reminder that we’re still in New England. Cold and windy in the 30s today, with a fresh dusting of snow last night.

And I still didn’t make the list, bummer. The list is available for free browsing here, but the in-depth articles and back-stories are for paying customers.

Some interesting changes. Wal-mart’s number one. It used to be the Fortune 500 list was held by companies that made things.

Many familiar names on the list, a few former clients and employers, too.

In a piece entitled “Permanet, Nearlynet, and Wireless Data,” Clay Shirky argues that 3G cellular phone data services are solving a problem that doesn’t exist, using a marketing model that makes no sense. Interesting reading, from Clay Shirky’s Writings About the Internet.

Amazing! First day I missed this month, first day since Januray, too. There just didn’t seem to be anything that interesting to relay. My own time was spent putting the finishing touches on speaker’s notes and slides for the upcoming Essential Fox conference, and puttering about the house doing Saturday-in-Spring things.

Tim Bray wrote recently that XML was too hard for programmers, and many people (most didn’t read the article, I suspect) turned that into “XML Sucks.” Tim, one of the co-inventors of XML, needed to clarify that it isn’t XML that’s the problem, in this article.

Dave Winer had mentioned an interview on NPR for blogging. I couldn’t find that one on-line yet, but I did find these two on the NPR web site:

• Omar Wasow interviewed by Alison Keys on the Tavis Smiley Show, 13-Feb-2003, and
  
• Linguist Geoff Nunberg explains the phemomenon of blogs: personal websites that function as public diaries on Terri Gross’s awesome Fresh Air, 10-Dec-2001
  

And, of course, NPR points to the requisite Iraq blogs.

It looks like Chris Lydon had a blogging show on WBUR’s The Connection on May 5, 2000.