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  • 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

  • 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.…

  • 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…

  • 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…

  • 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

  • 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…

  • 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.…

  • The next Office

    The Outlook Killer?. I think Ludwig blogged this before I switched to MovableType, but I saw this article again. I think he is right aobut the problems. It shouldn’t take all that much money to make it work and Chandler looks interesting. This next take on Outlook could of course benefit from the right kind…

  • Buy the device, hate the network

    Returning my Sidekick. It is amazing to me how many times people just want to love their device like the new Danger, but the network just gets in the way. Sounds like Matt needs to look up

  • Linksys Router updates can silently hurt you…

    PPTP disabled by default. Turns out that when I upgraded the firmware to my Linksys router last month, they added a new parameter buried somewhere deep that was disable PPTP so all my VPN access would hang. This was enabled by default. Amazing what some folks do. Probably in the name of security, but talk…