Information Letter 14. This memo by John Walker was one of my touchstones more than a decade ago. Written in 1991, it talks about the quaint Eighties. It’s amazing to me how much changes with the Internet and how in many ways nothing changed. I rate this a must read for everyone. Actually, his whole […]
Day: December 16, 2002
Categories and Website organization
Categorization. An interesting piece on categorization. I’m a little obsessed with this too as I figure out how to turn the rest of my web site into a giant blog. He’s a bit like John Ludwig in believing in dynamic categorization or a big content search
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Rise of the Stupid Network
Stupid Network. This is one of those classic articles written by Dave Isenberg five years ago about how the basic telco assumptions aren’t valid anymore. I’ll be a little contrarian in a day when essentially every startup carrier is in bankruptcy and say that the trend is still in the direction the he talks about. […]
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Email Innovations
It’s amazing that there hasn’t been more innovation in email. Part of the problem is that there isn’t an easy to code, modular platform to innovate on. Here are some of the projects I’ve found with food for thought. POPFile – Automatic Email Classification. It’s interesting that this is the most active project current on […]
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Gallery 2 column mode
Gallery is now working and up on Tong Family. It requires a logon though, so you need to send me email if you want to look at photos of the kids, etc. Gallery :: your photos on your website. As usual, there are tweaks galore. One that I need to install right away is how […]
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Supernova conference notes
SUPERNOVA 2002 – by pulver.com. Hey the cool think is that the conference was actually both blogged and group blogged, so read it and weep. See Pulvar for more general information since the blog seems to be a temporary site with no DNS address, just a TCP/IP address
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Great conferences (at last!)
Joi Ito’s Web: World Blogging Forum and the Tao of Conferences. At last some interesting conferences to visit. I have to admit, I’ve done so many conferences, I’m terrified of them. I’m sorry I missed the event down in San Francisco. Nice to have a list of ones that you liked. Sign me up for […]
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VOIP arriving
Boing Boing: A Directory of Wonderful Things. This is a neat geek site for interesting gadgets and a multiuser site. Here’s a note from Clay Shirky about VoIP. I have to give it a try! I have been testing Vonage’s VoIP service, and it comes close to the critical mix of simple, useful, and cheap. […]
