by Tom | Aug 28, 2001 | General
via Google: Readable synopsis of Velikovsky-like resynchronisation of ancient Egypt and Israel. I like the enormous amount of effort that goes into trying to proove / disproove biblical stories. 11:29:33 AMBBC don’t-miss: Illiterate Indian street kids crack the...
by Tom | Aug 19, 2001 | General
DaveNet: Google upgrades the Web. I call it a JIT-SE or Just-In-Time-Search-Engine. The JIT-SE feature is particularly suited to weblogs, which are time-oriented websites. The Google crawler notices that I update my site every day, so it knows it should come back and...
by Tom | Aug 17, 2001 | General
Cringely: MSIE dropping plug-in support to boost .Net? 2:35:20 PMThe Economist survey on drugs. The Economist has published a survey on illegal drugs. Its long, but its packed with facts. I love the Economist’s tone – I don’t know how they manage to...
by Tom | Aug 14, 2001 | General
Mark Pilgrim: “Groove is an overkill solution in search of a problem.” 2:06:37 PMColumn | The Universal Canvas Revisited. Readers describe experimental approaches to live editing of web pages. Some great stuff on WYSIWYG editing of web pages. 2:06:08...
by Tom | Aug 13, 2001 | General
Interactive Week: Fueling Bandwidth Trading. But the energy giant and a few of its neighbors in downtown Houston believe that – regardless of the current wreckage – they are going to transform the telecommunications business and the way bandwidth is...
by Tom | Aug 10, 2001 | General
Whatis: The Map To Better Web Searching. Whatis would include available site characteristics like news and discussion, that would make finding the type of site you want easier, and help researchers map the Net. Should we map against the Dewey Decimal system? 4:16:35...
by Tom | Aug 9, 2001 | General
MS poised to switch Windows file systems with Blackcomb.. The Register: MS poised to switch Windows file systems with Blackcomb. 2:48:09 PMNYObserver: Byron reveals $425M pump’n’dump dotcom scam. Astonishing. 2:47:05 PM
by Tom | Aug 8, 2001 | General
The fattest ever fat cats?. This has to be illegal or something like that? 5:00:36 PMContext Magazine: Bluetoothless. I have to run my WAP 1.x argument here as well. Bluetooth isn’t the net, or compatible with it. Therefore it won’t spread as far....
by Tom | Aug 7, 2001 | General
Internet Week: Content Management: Integrate To Dominate. 6:35:04 PMContext Magazine: graphs,it becomes obvious that there is a segment of the Internet populationthat either hasn’t seen reports of Code Red, or is composed of peoplewho don’t believe that...
by Tom | Aug 6, 2001 | General
Context Magazine: Churning Out Ideas. A large proportion of Cincinnati has access to broadband, and people are using it as a test bed for new services. I don’t think this is unusual, but the results are interesting. 6:37:25 PMSlashdot thread on Breaking Windows....
