Mapping the space. I was noodling around trying to organize “the space” in my head and put this picture together. The x axis is the “context”. IE low context is stuff like CD’s and books which don’t change, are worth approximately the same amount to most people and don’t have much timing or personal context. The far right is very…
Author: fioritto
When blogs get /really/ popular…
When blogs get really popular. While there are a hell of a lot of blogs and blog readers, blogs aren’t even close to being a mainstream phenomenon the way email is. It’ll happen. And here are some guesses (note: guesses) about what they’ll look like when they do: 1. The word “blog” will expand to cover any linkable posting (a…
Text Mining [1].
Text Mining. NYTimes writes: [Text-mining is] a technique that academics have been experimenting with for years but for which tools have only recently become commercially available. The prospect of rapidly scanning through reams of documents is stirring interest among researchers and analysts faced with more material than they can handle. To the uninitiated, it may seem that Google and other…
Unicode primer [1]. Joel-on-Software’s posted…
Unicode primer. Joel-on-Software’s posted a great primer on Unicode character sets. If developers all read this piece, I’d never get a bloody question-mark and a broken RSS feed when I pasted in a curly-quote or an accent-character. In this article I’ll fill you in on exactly what every working programmer should know. All that stuff about “plain text = ascii…
SAS targets media industry [1]….
SAS targets media industry. As the media sector weathers vast change, SAS Institute Inc. has launched a series of software-based initiatives for beleaguered industry executives. [InfoWorld: Top News]
Community Services for Enterprise Blognets…
Community Services for Enterprise Blognets. Community Services for Enterprise Blognets While your firewall protects you from intrusion, it also cripples the community software that keeps the blogosphere hopping. Here’s are some of the services you might want to bring inside to help your blognets grow and prosper. The list grows, changes, and is not complete. I’ve grouped these services, arbitrarily, into three…
*TV’s Tipping Point: Why The…
TV’s Tipping Point: Why The Digital Revolution Is Only Just Beginning. : Ashley Highfield, Director of BBC New Media & Technology, spoke at the Royal Television Society, yesterday: “Future TV will may be unrecognisable from today, defined not just by linear TV channels, packaged and scheduled by television executives, but instead… [PaidContent.org]
Financial Times — Subscriptions must…
Financial Times — Subscriptions must not be working. The Financial Times and Yahoo Finance have expanded their relationship, meaning a lot more FT content, currently protected by a subscription barrier, is going to be available free on Yahoo!. Now, if I had to guess, based on negotiating with… [RatcliffeBlog – Mitch Thinking Out Loud]
Heath Row’s [1] incredible BloggerCon…
Heath Row’s incredible BloggerCon notes. [Scripting News]
Adam Curry [1] is doing…
Adam Curry is doing a feed he calls SyncPod to help developers adapt aggregators to work with enclosures. Scott Johnson says Feedster will have a special report listing all feeds that support enclosures. Now that I have more free time, I’m going to tweak up enclosure support in Radio. There are some serious problems that are relatively easy to fix.…