Making the Pitch
Clever lads have run the CES address of Bill Gates and the Macworld Keynote by Steve Jobs through a variety of text analysis tools to get an idea of why one has greater impact than the other. The article demonstrates…
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Google Terrorism?
There have been a wide swath of recent headlines connecting the success of insurgent activity in Iraq with their ability to acquire precise targeting data from Google Earth. Apparently searches of suspected locales in Iraq have turned up detailed satellite…
The Shape of Houses to Come
Just like those 3D laser printers that have been used to prototype product design, comes
Assembly Lines are Fascinating
There are a fascinating series of pictures detailing the flextronics XBOX assembly line in Hungary posted at xbox-linux. Flextronics seems to have product assembly to the ultimate art these days with factories around the world for a huge variety of…
iPhone Anticipation…
OK. It’s hit hit every front page in Christendom in the last 24 hours and with one fell swoop, Jobs was able to eclipse the entire CES show, RIM stock took a huge hit and Cisco has announced its suing…
Geotagging Just Keeps on Getting Better
The release of Google Earth 4.0 features the addition of Panoramio to their georeference layer. I was using a competing product for geotagging, but the seamless flow between Google Earth and Panoramio intrigued me. After tagging a few pictures in…
Transient Paper
From those ingenious folks at PARC comes a new way to save trees. They have developed an erasable type of paper that holds a low resolution toner-based image that lasts for about 16 hours after which the paper can be…
Military Remnants
Not to suck dry an interesting blog, but EnglishRussia had another fascinating post this morning. Its a wonderful collection of tagged Google Earth shots from Russian military sites. I was particularly interested to see that the ‘Kirov’ is still floating.…
When Do We Blog?
I added a neat little plug-in to the blog site today. blogTimes. It is a small, but powerful, script that generates a timeline plotting the time of day at which blog entries are made. I added this to the archives…
Journal versus Diary
Allan Bishop and I engaged in a rather interesting short discussion this morning on blogs, public discourse and what it means to share your thoughts in the internet era. He raised the story of the chap that went online and…
Do Ten Years Make a Difference?
It is interesting to consider the vastly different (yet similarly targeted) Apple eMate of 1997 and the OLPC pof 2007. Floating about the internet currently is a really cool screen capture of the ‘Sugar’ interface used by the One Laptop…
Privacy Concerns in the 21stC
Another interesting list I came across during the season of listing. This one comes from a bit of a site of paranoia…but maybe we should be afraid :-0. On the upside, this is a list of 13 Easy Ways to…