This week’s New Yorker has a banjo cartoon.… Read the rest
Month: October 2002 (Page 2 of 5)
Former Oracle business analyst Mei Lin Fung reflects on a bit of Oracle’s sales history, circa 1990.
“After five to eight years — with the benefit of distance, hindsight and detachment — it eventually worked its way to my consciousness that we had changed the way things worked in one part of the system.… Read the rest
The Onion: FAA Considering Passenger Ban. “In every single breach of security in recent years, whether it was an act of terrorism or some other form of crime, it was a passenger who subverted the safety systems on board the aircraft or in the terminal,” FAA administrator Marion Blakey said.… Read the rest
Webloggers are discovering the subtleties of journalistic ethics, bit by bit. First lesson: Disclosure. If Microsoft pays your way to attend a product preview in Redmond, you might want to disclose that fact before raving about their products in your weblog.… Read the rest
Movie and music moguls are hopping mad over the new technologies that are transforming digital entertainment. Washington is listening. What’s at risk? Your ability to enjoy DVDs and CDs you’ve bought, your privacy–even your control over your PC.
Dylan F. TweneyFrom the November 2002 issue of PC World magazine
Posted Wednesday, September 25, 2002
Posted Wednesday, September 25, 2002
Some PCs crashed.… Read the rest
Last night I watched the video release of Startup Dot Com, last year’s documentary about the rise and fall of GovWorks, a New York-based dot com. Interestingly, the founders, Kaleil Isaza Tuzman and Tom Herman, have gone on to start a new company specializing in helping other companies wind up business, declare bankruptcy, or find buyers.… Read the rest
Steve Gillmor: “LAST NIGHT I HAD a strange dream. The DRMocrats have just been re-elected, sweeping all three houses of government in a virtual landslide.”… Read the rest
Dan Gillmor notes that personal computing pioneer Doug Engelbart will be visiting a group of federal government IT executives this week, on a mission to raise their collective intelligence. Gillmor also posts a Howard Rheingold essay on Engelbart.… Read the rest
Lots of bloggers covered the DigitalID World conference in Denver last week, posting live transcripts, notes, and reports from the front of what turned out to be a very exciting conference. However, Jon Udell’s post is the first one that really boils down the conference and extracts some interesting thoughts I could get my head around.… Read the rest