Rough Drafts

Stereotypical librarians — would the field be better off with a hipper image? Interesting links & discussion. “Libraries are the last bastion of freedom,” writes one commentator.

Spent the Labor Day weekend camping at Salt Point, on the Sonoma county coast, with my family, including the in-laws. Woke up Saturday morning to a world of fog, the tall pines towering above us in the grey light, everything quiet and still. It stayed foggy until midafternoon. We walked up and down

Why you should fall to your knees and worship a librarian.

Spacewar! Fanatic life and symbolic death among the computer bums. “Ready or not, computers are coming to the people.” by Stewart Brand —Rolling Stone, December 7, 1972.

MouseSite: featuring video clips from Engelbart’s famous 1968 demo, in which he showed off the mouse, a graphical interface, WYSIWYG editing, shared-screen remote collaboration, hyperlinks, and lots more.

BT loses hyperlink patent case.

Just found this interview with Userland’s John Robb that explains pretty clearly and succinctly the benefits of knowledge management weblogs, or, as Robb refers to them, k-logs.

I just posted a new tweney report, which tries to clarify my thinking about weblogs as knowledge management tools.

Telcos enter the copyright fray: “Verizon and other telecommunications giants have ordered their phalanx of lobbyists to oppose the entertainment industry’s demands for new copyright laws,” Declan McCullough writes in this interview with Verizon VP/general counsel Sarah Deutsch. Why is this such big

The Weblog Metadata Initiative is trying to interconnect information about weblogs from different sources, such as Blogdex, the Blogosphere Ecosystem, and weblogs.com. So far, they seem interested primarily in collecting data about various blogs’ popularity and the links between blogs — but this see

This looks like a good introduction to the semantic web and RDF.

Fellow PC Computing alumnus Rafe Needleman is convinced that big, national wi-fi providers like T-Mobile spell the end for small, local wi-fi service providers. I’m not so sure. People have been predicting the demise of the mom-and-pop ISP for years now. The truth is, however, local ISPs increased i