June 2007
60 posts
BBC NEWS | Technology | The Tech Lab: Bradley... →
There is a problem of managing identity across the internet, so when I say Darren Waters I mean this person and all of the manifestations and representations and personas of that person. The ability to knit those together is a huge challenge and opportunity for us as an industry. That’s what I mean by resolving people - I mean this person and not the likely thousands of other people who...
Barkings!: How to Erase Your Macs Hard Drive... →
Lending Club - How it Works →
Lending Club is an online lending community where people can borrow and lend money, bypass the banks, and get better rates. By working together, members can borrow money more easily and at a better rate than they would get from a bank, or invest in a pool
Web Worker Daily » Blog Archive Open Thread: Are... →
A filer is a person who organizes information using a rigid structure, and a piler is someone who maintains a mostly unstructured information organization.
Costs Skyrocket As DHS Runs Up No-Bid Contracts -... →
The arrangements with the McLean consulting firm, one of the nation’s largest government contractors, illustrate a transformation in the way the federal government often gets its work done: by relying on private, sometimes costly consultants to fill staffing shortfalls in federal agencies. Contracting specialists said companies are increasingly being called upon to handle duties once...
Do We Like Mike? Yes, and He Would Be Good for... →
Suddenly the dynamic has changed. New York has become the intellectual center of the fledging 2008 Presidential campaign, home of two announced candidates and another one, maybe. When, or if, Mr. Bloomberg joins the race, he will join Mrs. Clinton and Mr. Giuliani in touting their achievements in New York as a template for what they would do nationally and even globally.
The Futurist: When Gadgets Become Emulators →
This can only be seen as a trend within the technology industry: What were once standalone hardware items are increasingly being ported into simple software emulators, emulators that have the potential to be loaded onto numerous devices.
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A List Apart: Articles: Testability Costs Too Much →
When success criteria are removed because they are not testable—even if they are otherwise valid and useful success criteria—the Working Group has lost its way, and we need to guide them back to the right path. The Working Group has made significant changes to WCAG 2.0 after the Last Call Working Draft; among other things, one of the most contentious issues, baseline, has been significantly...
Web Content Accessibility Guidelines →
Mahalo.com: Human-powered Search →
Angler: The Cheney Vice Presidency |... →
Dick Cheney is the most influential and powerful man ever to hold the office of vice president. This series examines Cheney’s largely hidden and little-understood role in crafting policies for the War on Terror, the economy and the environment.
Viewing American class divisions through Facebook... →
Over the last six months, I’ve noticed an increasing number of press articles about how high school teens are leaving MySpace for Facebook. That’s only partially true. There is indeed a change taking place, but it’s not a shift so much as a fragmentation. Until recently, American teenagers were flocking to MySpace. The picture is now being blurred. Some teens are flocking to...
Speed Media Blog » On-Site at Supernova 2007 →
To manage choice, you may need to throw more choices at the problem. Specifically, it’s helpful to surface related choices to users and group them by their associative properties. Why? Because choice helps qualify choice. For example, if I’m at a web site and wondering whether to take the plunge on a link it’s highlighting, I might look at what other links are being grouped with it. If the...
A Military Second Earth →
“The DOD is developing a parallel to Planet Earth, with billions of individual “nodes” to reflect every man, woman, and child this side of the dividing line between reality and AR. “Called the Sentient World Simulation (SWS), it will be a “synthetic mirror of the real world with automated continuous calibration with respect to current real-world information”,...
Boing Boing: Camera in parcel tracks journey... →
Tim Knowles put a digital camera inside a cardboard box and rigged it so that it would snap a photo every ten seconds through a small hole in the box. Then he sent the box through the mail. It recorded a total of 6994 images and he made a movie with them.
Murdoch Reaches Out for Even More - New York Times →
In the fall of 2003, a piece of Rupert Murdoch’s sprawling media empire was in jeopardy. Congress was on the verge of limiting any company from owning local television stations that reached more than 35 percent of American homes. Mr. Murdoch’s Fox stations reached nearly 39 percent, meaning he would have to sell some. A strike force of Mr. Murdoch’s lobbyists joined other media companies in...
Study on I.Q. Prompts Debate on Family Dynamics -... →
The new evidence that eldest children develop higher I.Q.’s than their siblings has intensified the debate over two of the most stubborn questions in social science: What are the family dynamics that enhance intelligence? And can they — and should they — be changed?
Immigration Lifts Wages, Report Says -... →
More than 90 percent of native workers benefit from the influx of low-wage labor because immigrants take jobs that complement higher-paid native workers rather than competing with them, according to the report. For example, Lazear said, immigrant roofers lower costs for contractors and home-builders, creating jobs for plumbers and electricians and lowering the price of houses for consumers. The...
A graphic language for RFID · Touch →
Chumby: One Year Later →
Chumby is a small, wifi-enabled linux hardware device is designed to be hacked and changed by its owners. The device has a 350MHz ARM controller, 32MB SDRAM, 64 MB Nand Flash Rom, a 320×240 3.5 inch touch LCD screen, two speakers, audio output, a microphone, and two USB ports. Chumby also has a squeeze sensor. All of this is housed within a soft, sqeezable shell about the size of a...
Tugboat Industry Is Experiencing a Revival - New... →
Never in the tugboat industry’s 170-year history has there been such demand for new equipment, according to a study published this spring by Marcon International, a tugboat brokerage company. Shipyards that were nearly abandoned five years ago now have enough work to last at least through 2010. The demand for tugs is driven in large part by new needs in the industry. As behemoth container ships...
General’s Report on Iraq Progress Has Competition... →
The reality, officials said, is that starting around April the military will simply run out of troops to maintain the current effort. By then, officials said, Mr. Bush would either have to withdraw roughly one brigade a month, or extend the tours of troops now in Iraq and shorten their time back home before redeployment. The latter, said one White House official, “is not something the president...
BuzzDash →
BuzzDash is a site and tool for gauging popular opinion on a wide range of topics - from sports, movies and politics to relationships and philosophy. Built upon individual polling modules called buzzbites™, BuzzDash provides a real-time forum where people can solicit, measure and share opinions on nearly any issue. With BuzzDash, people can: * View real-time popular opinion on a range of timely...
Cheap Flights, Airfare, Hotel Reservations, Car... →
Metacrap →
Putting the torch to seven straw-men of the meta-utopia
Farms Fund Robots to Replace Migrant Fruit Pickers →
As if the debate over immigration and guest worker programs wasn’t complicated enough, now a couple of robots are rolling into the middle of it. Vision Robotics, a San Diego company, is working on a pair of robots that would trundle through orchards plucking oranges, apples or other fruit from the trees. In a few years, troops of these machines could perform the tedious and labor-intensive...
ISPs Inserting Ads Into Your Pages →
“Some ISPs are resorting to a new tactic to increase revenue: inserting advertisements into web pages requested by their end users. They use a transparent web proxy (such as this one) to insert javascript and/or HTML with the ads into pages returned to users. Neither the content provides nor the end-users have been notified that this is taking place, and I’m sure that they...
Everything is Miscellaneous Interview Series on... →
David Weinberger talks with leading businesspeople, scientists, and thinkers behind the innovative new ways we are putting ideas, information and knowledge together now that the digital age has blown them apart. Interviewees include Cory Doctorow, Arianna Huffington, Markos Moulitsas Zuniga, Neil DeGrasse Tyson, Paul English, Richard Sambrook, Jimmy Wales and Craig Newmark. Sponsored by the...
Boing Boing: Photography banned in Silver Spring,... →
'Blog', 'cookie', 'wiki' top list of hated... →
“Blog”, “netiquette”, “cookie” and “wiki” have been voted among the most irritating words spawned by the Internet, according to the results of a poll published Thursday.
Cheney Defiant on Classified Material -... →
The dispute centers on a relatively obscure process but underscores a wider struggle waged in the past 6 1/2 years over Cheney’s penchant for secrecy. Since becoming vice president, he has fought attempts to peer into the inner workings of his office, shielding an array of information such as the names of industry executives who advised his energy task force, costs and other details...
Adobe extends online video remixer to YouTube and... →
Home Page - Anthro Corporation, Computer Carts,... →
Since 1984, Anthro has designed and manufactured furniture for technology. From compact computer desks to large, spacious workstations, you’ll find solutions that are mobile, modular and adjustable. And don’t forget Anthro’s Lifetime Warranty!
Study Says Eldest Children Have Higher I.Q.s - New... →
“Like Darwin’s finches, they are eking out alternative ways of deriving the maximum benefit out of the environment and not directly competing for the same resources as the eldest,” Dr. Sulloway said. “They are developing diverse interests and expertise that the I.Q. tests do not measure.”
New age town in U.S. embraces dollar alternative -... →
in Great Barrington, MA, a town of 7,400 in the Berkshire Mountains, which now has its own currency, called BerkShares. Why? According to BerkShares Inc’s website, “The purpose of local currency is to function on a local scale the same way that national currencies have functioned on a national scale, building the local economy by maximizing circulation of trade within a defined...
Jaiku/Twitter/Facebook/Kyte/Plaxo = something... →
Truveo →
Mint | Free, Simple Personal Finance Software →
Wesabe: Take Control of Your Money →
People have no idea why they're doing what they're... →
Clotaire Rapaille believes all purchasing decisions lie beyond conscious thinking and emotion and reside at a primal core. He helps Fortune 500 companies discover “the code” (i.e. unconscious associations for their products) that will help them increase sales.
F.D.A. Tracked Poisoned Drugs, but Trail Went Cold... →
In a global economy, ingredients for drugs are often bought and sold many times in different countries, sometimes without proper paperwork, all of which increases the risk of fraud, the authorities say.
A Gadfly Becomes Persona Non Grata in City Hall -... →
But administration officials say that they denied the applications of both Mr. Martínez Alequin and Mr. Levitt because they did not show a need to cover breaking news for a legitimate news organization. “An individual’s declaration that they are a news-gathering organization does not make it so,” said Paul J. Browne, a Police Department spokesman. The definition of a news organization appears to...
Restaurant Reservations Go Online - New York Times →
Mr. Shapiro said he and he wife had a couple of favorite restaurants that did not take reservations. “The truth is, those places have gotten less attention from us lately,” he said. “It would be as if an airline didn’t allow you to buy tickets online.”
MediaShift . Digging Deeper::Collaborative Radio... →
“It absolutely adds work and it’s absolutely rewarding,” Pemberton said. “We talk about this at big public radio conferences and some people are jumping on the bandwagon, which is fantastic. But we tell people it does add a tremendous amount of work. Every producer has to take an hour out of their day to read comments from the site, and decide whether we need to respond to them or not. It becomes...
MediaPost Publications - Widget Advertising:... →
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A Guide to Anywhere, Right in Your Hand - New York... →
Where, a subscription service from uLocate Communications, based in Framingham, Mass., takes the concept a step further. Instead of requiring that the user type in a city or ZIP code, Where works with G.P.S. phones to find its users and automatically prov
Radar Online - Sindergarten →
Mailbox Map - USPS mailbox locator that uses an... →