Five years of Cluetrain.
“Giles Turnbull writes in The Guardian on how that Cluetrain stuff
worked out now that it’s been five years since the site went up. Good
article. I’m always a bit awkward talking about Cluetrain. I think it
was basically right about the value of the Net at a time when the media
and most businesses were (IMO) insistently wrong. But, for example, the
other day at a conference someone very sweetly thanked me, crediting
Cluetrain as the inspiration for the company he’d founded. That’s great
to hear, but it also invokes my Flight or Polite instinct. Cluetrain
tried to articulate…” from Joho the Blog
Archive | 2004
Mac OS X 10.3.4 Update Released
Mac OS X 10.3.4 Update Released. The 10.3.4 Update delivers enhanced functionality … read more at [OSNews]
SAX Processing in Python
OSNews links to this great article on SAX processing in Python on DevChannel by Derek Fountain:
An
application developer can choose any one of a number of strategies to read and use an XML
document. In some very simple examples a script containing a
number of regular expressions might do the job, but normally
a more rigorous technique is required. The Simple API for XML
(SAX) is one of the two key techniques for analysing and processing
XML documents (the other is the more complicated Document Object Model (DOM)).
application developer can choose any one of a number of strategies to read and use an XML
document. In some very simple examples a script containing a
number of regular expressions might do the job, but normally
a more rigorous technique is required. The Simple API for XML
(SAX) is one of the two key techniques for analysing and processing
XML documents (the other is the more complicated Document Object Model (DOM)).
The article is very timely, as I’ve just
been working to convert some XML processing into Python.
A new product from Software Garden
Dan Bricklin announces
a new product from Software Garden: “Finally, I’ve released the first
new product from Software Garden since returning full-time. The product
itself is very simple — less than 400 lines of Perl plus
documentation. The goal was not to make a major product. Rather, the
goal was to do a complete release of a simple product, web site and
all, to run on Windows, Mac, and Linux.”
FoxPro user group meeting in Waltham tonight
Off to Waltham for the monthly meeting of the Boston Area FoxPro User Group where I’ll be presenting my “Introduction to Data Design” session as practice for the upcoming DevEssentials conference.
Christof just got married!
Christof just got married!. “Long-time Fox expert, Christof Wollenhaupt (nee Lange) just got married this past week.” From Garrett Fitzgerald’s Blog
Best wishes, Christof!
The Buzz is finally over: Gates says ‘RSS’
Paying Attention.
Bill
Gates finally speaks the ‘R’ word as he highlights the increasingly
strategic role of RSS in Microsoft’s seamless computing direction,
eWEEK’s Steve Gillmor writes.
More on Gates and RSS on IT Conversations’ The Gillmor Gang.
And more on IBM Workplace in my print column, Signal to Noise.
[Steve Gillmor’s Blogosphere]
Fahrenheit 9/11 via BitTorrent? It’s a nice idea…
The Doc Searls Weblog blogs: Panning for gold in the bitstream.
Brian Dear says Michael Moore‘s “Fahrenheit 9/11,” which won the Palme D’Or at Cannes, will be distributed via BitTorrent:
In
a stunning move, controversial documentary filmmaker Michael Moore
announced today that his latest film, “Fahrenheit 9/11”, will be
released by BitTorrent, the popular peer-to-peer file-sharing network.
From Brian‘s Denounce.com.
Warning: It always pays to read the whole article, and the disclaimer, which in this case says in part: “Denounce is a satire website specializing in false press releases that
are meant to neither inform nor educate. If it makes you smile and
think, we’ve done our job”
Interoperability is Good
An associate has a client that upgraded their file server to Windows
Server 2003 and broke my associate’s application. He has a DOS machine
at the client site that handles their faxing and EDI functionality, and
the client can’t get the DOS box to authenticate to the Windows Server
2003. Based on this KnowledgeBase article,
it looks to me like Windows 95 and DOS systems are out of luck if they
need to attach to Windows 2003 shares, as they lack the ability to
encrypt their authentication information. I wonder if Microsoft had
some legitimate reason to break backward compatibility, or if they did
it just to force obsolescence of older clients…
Wardriving a Zip Code and Looking at Demographics
Wardriving a Zip Code and Looking at Demographics.
“A writer becomes curious about his California Zip code’s Wi-Fi
penetration, and creates a map: Lee Gomes of The Wall Street Journal
drives around for hours, picks up 3,000 hotspots in a population of
70,000 households, and then maps the results against income. His
conclusion: Wi-Fi has become so ubiquitous in urban areas that even
though it’s not linked together, we have practically a seamless network
already. (Tie that idea in with community mesh, and you’ve got
ubiquitous access.)” [link via Brian Chin]… [Wi-Fi Networking News]