Author: fioritto

Deja vu, courtesy of Feedster…

Deja vu, courtesy of Feedster. For those of you who have not yet swung by Feedster, you should give it a look. It’s a powerful new addition to the searcher’s arsenal. Many weblogs provide XML feeds. These feeds are in one of two popular formats – RSS or RDF. (Though the flame wars between the two camps are legendary, and,…

Images and Metadata [1].

Images and Metadata. Fotonotes: The Cool New App “Greg Elin has rolled out his new tool, Fotonotes annotation of JPEG files with metadata. It allows you to embed stories in a picture and, as you roll your mouse over the image, sections are highlighted and the text appears. Dan Gillmor gives Fotonotes a rave here, and demontrates how the image…

Talk about Weblogs, Democracy, Risk…

Talk about Weblogs, Democracy, Risk and Japan at MIT Enterprise Forum. Gave a talk on March 19 at the MIT Enterprise Forum in Tokyo hosted at the Nikkei BP office. I tried to tie a bunch of things together. I started out by saying that at a macro level, I was very depressed, but that at a micro level, I…

Analysis of the media’s coverage…

Analysis of the media’s coverage of the war in Iraq “My partner in production efforts, Peter Shaplen, who began his career as Walter Cronkite’s desk assistant, chimes in. Alas, Peter is blogless, so I’m posting this for him: Once again we are confusing technology with editorial substance. The ability to see a military column with night-scope technology and moving in…

NoteTaker [1]. We all make…

NoteTaker. We all make a lot of notes as information flows past us during the course of a day. I like to make paper-based notes in my book, and then will post some of the more organised ones on the blog. But there are definitely ways this can be improved – it is especially hard for me to search the…