June 24th, 2006
I wandered into the kitchen last night, and noticed that my wife had left her recipe-notebook open on the counter. It contains numerous pages of neatly typewritten (on a computer, of course) “personal” recipes, plus others that she’s clipped out of newspapers. The recipes are printed or taped onto ordinary white sheets of paper, which […]
June 23rd, 2006
I’ve added a second page of mind-map information for the emerging collection of stuff for Web 2.0. You can download the revised PDF (which contains an overall summary page, plus this new page of references) by clicking on this link: Web 2.0v002.pdf (link removed, 7/12/06).
Also, if you know of any good books on Web 2.0, […]
June 23rd, 2006
I decided to add a little content to my evolving mind-map on Web 2.0 by collecting some references: books, Websites, articles, etc. Interestingly, Amazon shows only one book that’s directly and exclusively focused on the subject of Web 2.0 — and it was published back in 2002 (which, in these fast-moving times, seems like ancient […]
June 22nd, 2006
I’m going to be presenting a seminar on Web 2.0 this fall, and I’ve also found myself in more and more situations where I need to share my thoughts, opinions, and resources on the concepts and technologies of Web 2.0. So I’ve decided to start a new web site to make all of this available […]
June 22nd, 2006
This is the initial version of a mind-map describing the concept of Web 2.0; it will be expanded as time goes on… You can open (and then save, or print) the mind-map as a PDF file by clicking on it anywhere (link removed, 7/12/06).
June 20th, 2006
On June 12, I commented on the news story about cell phone ringtones (known as Mosquito tones) that only teenagers could hear. In the current issue of The New Yorker, Louis Menand has a wonderful commentary on the subject. As Menand points out, “Well, first of all, who wants to hear someone else’s cell phone? […]
June 20th, 2006
Of the professional journals that I force myself to read each month, IEEE Software and IEEE Computer are usually the most relevant and interesting. In the June 2006 issue of IEEE Computer, I found a short, but very practical article by Gerard Holzmann entitled “The Power of 10: Rules for Developing Safety-Critical Code.” The entire […]
June 12th, 2006
LIke a lot of nervous parents and frustrated teachers, I read the article entitled “A Ring Tone Meant to Fall on Deaf Ears” in this morning’s New York Times. It says that American kids are importing cell-phone ring-tones from England, which ring at a frequency of 17 kilohertz. That’s great for kids, who can actually […]
June 7th, 2006
A recent article in the Washington Post finally trickled to the top of my reading list this morning. In a May 25th article entitled “Computers’ Mistakeover,” Leslie Walker reviews several recent examples of computer “glitches” (aka “bugs”) — including a recent bug that caused Citibank to make 274,800 incorrect banking transactions in Japan, another one […]
June 3rd, 2006
I don’t usually read the obituary section of the New York Times, but today it was on the back page of the first section — and a large slug caught my eye as I flipped the paper over to get to the editorial page (a slug which, by the way, doesn’t exist in the online […]
