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Sunday, July 11, 2004
Unboxing computing 
| | I think there's a return to the old ways coming about. I don't think it has as much to do with IT here in Trinidad and Tobago as much as it has to do with businesses maturing. In The Need For Computers In Trinidad and Tobago, I made a few points related to age and computer exposure locally, and how computers aren't being best used - but it seems that I may have to eat crow on that if the trend I am seeing picks up. |
| | Tailored solutions which incorporate specific business intelligence are platinum. Ask Google. Heck, you can ask Microsoft too - they produce software that fulfills their business needs, and has been the shotgun approach to IT for about 20 years. And it looks like people in the business world are learning that they need to use their computing properly. |
| | Bonus link: Intellectual Usability. Even if you don't agree, it helps get past whatever keeps us from thinking outside the boxes of intellectual property, free software and open source. |
Up2speed
| | Technorati is back up and working, fast. Even on keywords. Made the last three posts happen so quickly it's scary. |
Privil edge
| | The Web isn¹t primarily a medium for information, marketing, or sales. It¹s a world in which people meet, talk, build, fight, love, and play. In fact, the Web world is bigger than the business world and is swallowing the business world whole. The vague rumblings you¹re hearing are the sounds of digestion. |
| | The change is so profound that it¹s not merely a negation of the current situation. You can¹t just put a big "not" in front of Fort Business and say, "Ah, the walls are coming down." No, the true opposite of a fort isn¹t an unwalled city. |
| | Which is why I love what Dick said. But then, I'm from New Jersey. Which is why I'm also wondering why there aren't more t-shirts that leverage the VP's short-for-Richard nickname. (That's your cue, Sean.) |
Eventitude
| | Some of us are heading to AlwaysOn. I'll be there for my part of it on Thursday. Flying Wednesday. Driving home afterwards (only 350 miles, after flying 5400 to get to Stanford) on Thursday night. Nutty. |
Denise excepted
Needed: a history bridge
| | Interesting process... 1) look up cell phone rental london on Google. 2) Find http://www.rent-mobile-phone.com/quote.html; 3) Get told I don't have javascript, by the browser page; 4) call the toll free number. 5) get told to see the conceirge who will fax over an order form. |
From the Dept. of Salivation
| | A dinner is shaping up for this evening. Details as they unfold. |
| | [Later...] Okay, events have unfolded. It's at Garlic & Shots (the usual, great place) in Soho, 18:30-ish. |
Toward a Public Radio commons
| | PublicRadioFan.com is a cool discovery. It tells you what's playing, right now, on a hundred or more public radio stations, along with what format they're using and other helpful information. Way too few use MP3 (the only popular format that doesn't require its owner's proprietary player), but among them are a still-impressive list: WFUV, KKJZ, WEMU, KRVS, WUNC, KCRW, KPUB, WNYC-AM and FM, KUOW, KUSC (to which I'm listening right now), KXPR, KRWG and NRK. The majority of stations and networks (CBC, BBC and NPR itself) require a Real or a Windows Media player. |
| | Even among the MP3 streamers, the situation is far from perfect. For example, neither of WNYC's MP3 streams is working right now. |
| | And too many sources, such as the BBC and WBGO, use a browser with a RealAudio plugin as the required receiver — a pretty clunky approach. |
| | Once again, I think the way to make radio truly real as a Net-native medium is to put it on the World Live Web via RSS. Look at the list of programs running right now at PublicRadioFan.com. Wouldn't it be nice to have a little orange XML by each one? Or just a little "subscribe" link? |
| | Earth to Public Radio: What do you call your contributing listeners? Right: Subscribers. They have the will. Give them a way. |
| | I also think a necessary long-term step for getting a real radio market happening on the Net's commons is widespread adoption of ownerless codecs, starting with Ogg Vorbis (and for video, Theora). Toward that end, kudos to RealNetworks for creating Helix and making possible the creation of codec-agnostic players. |
Still, wearing the worst bra ever
| | Says (and shows) here that the movie studio gave Keira Knightly a boob job somewhere between one promo picture and the next. |
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