Posts from ‘December, 2003’

No addresses or URLs have been shuffled, but today I finally managed to move our ‘Jade’ server (if anyone has caught notice, all machines in my area are domain named after minerals… my G4 laptop is ‘Topaz’, my beige PC is “Pyrite’, there is an old Mac named ‘Sphalerite’ acting as a mulit-user server for [...]

This slow time has allowed a rare luxury: finishing a good book.
On one forgotten trip a few months back, thumbing through the schlock selections at some airport bookstore, one caught my attention because of a geology cross-section on the cover. Simon Winchester’s “The Map that Changed the World” is the riveting story of [...]

Just announced, Jan 21-22, 2004, RSS Winterfest:
a free Webcast, and hear from some of the world’s foremost experts and commentators about RSS and the future of Internet content syndication.
We’ll give an overview of RSS and look at its future. We’ll feature case studies that will examine the applications for enterprise content syndication. We’ll [...]

Time for a break- this CogDog is off at our secret hideaway, tethered to the net only by a 28 kbps modem line. At that rate, the RSS reader chokes and sputters on those fat feeds, bloated graphic web sites are not worth the bother, and those internal emails full of attached Word files or [...]

Now that the copies of our mcli Forum have gone out to our colleges, we are getting a lot of interest, questions, head scratching about RSS from the “Pssss… Have You Heard About RSS?” article.
An email came today from one of our Governing Board members who found the article “interesting”– this is remarkable and [...]

There are a few threads to this story. I had seen an odd thing on one of our new XHTML designed web sites– this one uses an HTML <ul> list and CSS for rollover effects and graphic-looking buttons for the navigation.
In Internet Explorer 6 (and then reports came in for IE5 users) the text [...]

Although I miss the literary references, I do like the spin that Jason Kotke puts on meta-data:
Nothing takes the fun and personality out of writing like metadata.
As software developers, photographers, writers, and users struggle to organize creative work so that people can locate what they’re after, the work itself has necessarily been de-emphasized. As [...]

There are people who can look at a peaceful valley or serene mountain vista and only see how it can be exploited; they see only golf courses, shopping malls, and asphalt.
Likewise, there are those that can only look at a useful communications technology and only rub their hands in glee trying to figure out [...]

Blog on Blogs, a Weblog Review does double duty as a great resource for getting a handle on weblogs and a wonderful example of using blogs in an educational context, a New Media Studies course:
This project is collaboration produced by the students of the Fall 2003 Introduction to New Media Studies course at Richard [...]

No centerfolds but… for those that enjoy the history of how the Net unfolded, if you could not get enough of “Where the Wizards Stayed Up Late” (a great read by the way), check out “The Faces in Front of the Monitors”– this is an alphabet listing of those wizards, many with multiple photos. [...]