Month: September 2002 (Page 3 of 5)

Side by side illustrations of covers from Vanity Fair, Vogue, Playboy, and even Good Housekeeping prove the point: magazine covers ain’t what they used to be. (thanks, BoingBoing)… Read the rest

Sergey Brin, one of Google’s founders, tends to stay out of the limelight. That’s why I was so interested to see Jon Udell’s summary of Brin’s talk at the InfoWorld Web Services conference. Udell asked Brin about RDF and the semantic web — here’s what he said: “Look, putting angle brackets around things is not a technology, by itself.… Read the rest

I wrote a feature for CIO Magazine about intrusion detection systems. (alternative URL from the tweney.com archive)… Read the rest

eWeek reported earlier this month on a new library built, with HP’s help, in Cerritos, Calif. It’s loaded with Internet connections, places to set up your laptop, info kiosks, and “intelligent building” features. “We wanted to create a library everyone would enjoy as a gathering place for the community for a shared learning experience,” said Fred Ying, MIS manager for city of Cerritos.… Read the rest

I’ve moved things around on my site, so everything that was formerly www.tweney.com is now dylan.tweney.com — including this weblog (whose new address is https://dylan.tweney.com/weblog). Please update your bookmarks & XML syndication links.

NOTE: I believe that webmasters should do everything in their power to preserve URLs, once they’ve been published — and especially once other people have linked to those URLs.… Read the rest

posthoc, Susan MacTavish Best’s outstanding San Francisco guide, is back — and now it’s a weblog. SMB and friends have been posting restaurant reviews and other SF related goodies for a few months now. Down to earth, opinionated, entertaining reviews of where to eat, drink, relax, have fun: All great stuff.… Read the rest

Now you’re talking, Walt: Mossberg reviews Roomba, a robotic vacuum cleaner (subscription required). This little guy, shaped like a UFO, rolls around on your floor in random patterns, bouncing off of obstacles, vacuuming as it goes. There are some drawbacks: Bits of string and such can choke it, and it got “beached” on the tapered base of a Scandinavian chair.… Read the rest

Who wants to hire a weblogger? I have no idea. But just because I don’t understand it doesn’t mean it’s not a good idea. That’s why there’s Weblogs4Hire, a site where you can, well, hire webloggers.… Read the rest

There’s a very thoughtful debate between Scot Hacker and Sean Graham about the significance of weblogs. My horribly reductive summary: Graham says, what’s the big deal? Weblogs are not significantly different from other forms of media. Hacker argues that actually, there’s a lot that’s new:

• “Self-publishing has never been this easy.