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Monday, July 29, 2002

Traction and Radio are Not Exclusionary

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Paul Kulchenko of toolbox makes some good additions to my quick-and-dirty overview Traction vs. Radio - A Personal View. I like the idea of news2email and mail_to_category, but I can't get the script noted in Paul's post to work. Anyone who's actually installed the mail_to_category script feel free to chime in.

I'm running community server behind the firewall and for some business users it's very important to be connected via email. Although, there are some [Radio] tools like news2email and the ability to mail to category that allow you to do that.

And also:

[...]I'm all in favor of bottom-up approach, but it seems like the most practical approach is somewhere inbetween: company will benefit from using both, top-down and bottom-up systems, they just have to be well-connected. [toolbox]

Also, John Robb chimed in via e-mail to point out that Traction and Radio are quite complementary -- Radio being a great tool to get users over the start-up hurdle and get them contributing; Traction as a higher-end solution for a small core of knowledge architects to use in gathering together all the company's disparate knowledge sources.

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2002 GATF InterTech Awards

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Perusing this list of technology winners for the graphic arts industry really points out the level of stagnation that has set in across the industry. It also shows the relative misplacement of focus on rather simple, user-level advancements such as PDFTansit as opposed to developments that can really change the fundamental production models of the industry.

Adobe is a great company and has done more in the graphic arts space than anyone. Their PostScript, and then PDF, technologies have literally revolutionized the entire industry. But to choose PDFTransit as the top technical achievement in 2002 is like granting Schering Pharmaceuticals an achievement award for their remake of Claritin into Clarinex -- it is a change from existing products, but not much of one.

Eleven Technologies Honored with a 2002 GATF InterTech Technology Award [WhatTheyThink]
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Why Shouldn't I Use AMD

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I'm thinking of building a new desktop computer -- although I really like my present setup, I guess 733mHz is getting a little long in the tooth. But I really don't want to spend a lot of money. It looks like an AMD processor and AMD-compatible mobo from Gigabyte or Asus or someone could be had for 15-20 percent under comparable Intel parts. Is there any good reason I should not use AMD?

I don't presently do any 3D modeling or gaming. If I do so in the future it will be quite limited, I suspect. But I might do a little video editing if I get an ATI Radeon All-In-Wonder 8500 video card.

Comments welcome.

Prices are falling at AMD. Vendor cuts Athlon, Duron price in bid to stay with Intel [InfoWorld: Top News]
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My Patent is Bigger Than Your Patent

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More patent silliness from two companies we all know and love.
Adobe, Macromedia settle patent suits. CNET Jul 29 2002 4:20PM ET [Moreover - IP and patents news]
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Inside Views from CIO Summit

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Phil Windley's trip report from the Western CIO Summit provides some great insight into how our government officials are thinking and acting on the issues of Homeland Security and IT. Everyone should read it.

Windley is to be congratulated. I'll say this, if the CIO of every state were as open as Windley and made his views public we'd all know one hell of a lot more about what is going on in our bureaucracy and we'd be a hell of lot less at the mercy of our conniving politicians.

I think I'll move to Utah...

Second Day at Western CIO Summit.

Here is my trip report from my second day at the Western CIO Summit sponsored by Western Information Technology Council. [Windley's Enterprise Computing Weblog]

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Friday, July 26, 2002

Improvements in Paschal's Kit

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Kit is probably the single best improvement in Radio I've made in my brief experience. The news aggregator filtering is a great improvement over the standard Radio aggregator, and the search tool is very good. I haven't used the date modification tools yet, but I'm beginning to understand how they could be used. Highly recommended.

I suspect activeRenderer will be an equally enlightening addition, as soon as I can figure out how to ger a browser that works with it.

Kit 1.1.7 [markpasc.blog Headlines]
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Publisher Profits Up

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McGraw-Hill Reports Profit Rise of 14%. New York Times Jul 26 2002 2:06AM ET [Moreover - Book publishing news]
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Thursday, July 25, 2002

Lessig In Law Journal on Libraries and Copyright

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I wrote about this earlier -- how Librarians are our first, best hope for stemming the Copyright Cabal. I need to find it.
Library Journal | Cahners - Copyright in the Balance: LJ Talks with Lawrence Lessig. Code and Other Laws of Cyberspace - by <a href=Lawrence Lessig" title="Code and Other Laws of Cyberspace - by Lawrence Lessig" >

Stanford University professor Lawrence Lessig is certainly no stranger to the library community. Considered the nation's most eminent legal scholar on the nexus of copyright, technology, and the Constitution, he is the highly regarded author of the landmark works Code and Other Laws of Cyberspace (Basic Bks.) and, most recently, The Future of Ideas (Random). In these works he eloquently defends the need to balance creators' rights with public benefits. Now, in a more direct way than ever before, Lessig carries the hopes of the library community, and by extension a largely unknowing public, squarely on his shoulders.

Future of Ideas: The Fate of the Commons in a Connected World - by Lawrence Lessig

In a promising sign for libraries and the public, the U.S. Supreme Court agreed in February 2001 to review whether Congress overstepped its bounds in 1998 when it passed the Sonny Bono Copyright Term Extension Act, extending copyright terms for another 20 years. Lessig will argue the case, Eldred v. Ashcroft, on behalf of a group of online publishers that offer digital editions of public domain books for free over the Internet. Two lower courts already ruled against the plaintiffs, but hopes are high in the library community that the third time could be the charm.

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This simplistic notion of what copyright is and how people think about it is weakening the debate substantially. We need to be much more aggressive in calling people on this rhetoric, because it's just wrong. It's just not the case that copyright has ever been understood to mean that if you use a copyrighted work in a way unintended by the copyright owner that's "theft." [Privacy Digest]

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Klogging: Chapter and Verse

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I took a quick run through the on-line version of Chapter 8 and have to say it looks pretty good. 2.5 minutes at midnight isn't a fair assessment of anything, but it looks like this chapter does justice to both the concept and content of business blogs -- enough so that I'm going to see if I can find an on-line copy down at the Georgia Tech Library like Paul Holbrook mentioned when I meet him for lunch on Thursday.

Blogs and Business, Take 3.

The BlogRoots authors are publishing their book on the Web, in its entirety. Chapter 8, Using Blogs in Business, is online now. Excellent. [Scripting News]

The birth of a meme. I've now counted at least five separate sources of info on the blogs and business topic. And I got my copy of Information Week today with the cover dedicated solely to blogs:

"Give individual employees within a company their own weblogs, encourage them to document their best ideas and personal experiences, link them, add search capabilities, and it's easy to imagine that at least some innovation will arise from the ordinary."

More on this later. [tins ::: Rick Klau's weblog]

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