Rough Drafts

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)

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 th

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

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 commun

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 th

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 grea

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

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.

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-pub

Printing tip: If you’re recycling paper by printing on the backs of old press releases, white papers, other printouts, etc — make sure you separate any stapled pages before running them through your laser printer.

WordSpy uncovers such useful neologisms as metrosexual and corporate anorexia. A new word every day, with definitions and a serious attempt to discover the word’s earliest usage. It’s scholarly and fun!

My latest column for Business 2.0 talks about the risks of leaving laptop data without a backup. You do back up your laptop regularly, don’t you? Sure you do. (This is a little late making it onto my blog, but hey, I was busy celebrating my birthday.)