Magellan Maestro 3225 GPS Review
Thursday, April 3rd, 2008Summary: love the predictive texting; some quibbles with routing, usability, street name pronunciation
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Summary: love the predictive texting; some quibbles with routing, usability, street name pronunciation
The Here and Now … or soon, anyway
Friday, March 21st, 2008More often, I blog about abstract concepts and remote events that catch my interest. I'm not even sure this blog has any local (Rockville, MD) readers. Occasionally, though, local happenings are irresistable topics:
Upgrade: more open to comments
Tuesday, March 11th, 2008Now that my blog server has been upgraded to WordPress 2.3.3 (hurray!), I've made some changes: Folks should be able to post and see comments immediately, without having to leave their name/emails (though they're welcome to provide such information). Akismet should hold off the spam. I changed the permalinks to use dates ...
WiFi World
Wednesday, March 5th, 2008I've been taking my little XO (OLPC laptop) around with me a lot of places. It's good at picking up wifi, and there are a lot of places that offer it for free, which makes it easy to check email and RSS feeds while I'm on the run, or ...
Creative Commons: blip, and “Unported”
Monday, November 19th, 2007"Uh-oh!" I thought as I saw that the Creative Commons website wasn't coming up (I'd clicked on a link to it from a wiki page I was proofreading; more about that in an upcoming entry). I did a Google search and checked the cache to make sure that ...
New spam trend: quotes instead of nonsense?
Thursday, October 18th, 2007It's bad, because it slows me down. But it's good, because there are some good quotes in there. Today's best: Some men, in order to prevent the supposed intentions of their adversaries, have committed the most enormous cruelties — Clearchus, in Xenophon
Permalinking
Wednesday, April 4th, 2007Occasionally I run across blogs I'd like to follow, but they make it hard to point my readers to the bits that particularly interested me. But I'm not going to add this blog to my list for reading regularly, because half the value of good stuff I read is the ...
Information Overload and Ruthlessness
Tuesday, April 3rd, 2007I've read a lot online lately. I can't keep up with everything that interests me. I've begun abandoning new sites I'm exploring as soon as I notice typos or grammatical errors or stylistic quirks that annoy me, even if some of the other content looks good -- if it's good enough, I'll ...
NSF Town Hall at CIKM 2006
Thursday, March 22nd, 2007An unscheduled event at the ACM Conference on Information and Knowledge Management was a presentation by Le Gruenwald from the NSF, all about their restructuring (what was going where, what was going away, and what new stuff was coming in) and what that meant to the grant application process. I wrote down ...
User experience of links
Wednesday, March 14th, 2007I can't get over the missing e in usability, so I'm using the term I've seen from a colleague the last few months: user experience. In his write-up of CHI 2006, Sebastien Paquet passes along this nugget from Jared Spool: The best links are 7-12 words (long). It makes sense to me. I'm sure ...
Humo[u]r
Tuesday, March 6th, 2007It amuses me that on the current Connotea tag cloud display, "humor" and "humour" have about the same freshness (the redder, the newer) and popularity (the bigger, the more times a tag has been used).
Attention waste
Friday, March 2nd, 2007Most of the time I'd rather point to good examples than spend anyone's time talking about bad ones. But I'm mystified at the ACM's new beta site -- they have Special Interest Groups for Design of Communication (SIGDOC) and Computer-Human Interaction (SIGCHI), after all. Why would such an organization put up a site with ...
Attention theft
Thursday, March 1st, 2007Alas, I have begun getting comment spam (caught so far via moderation, so I don't think they've been visible to readers here). Weeds in my little knowledge garden. From the Introduction to Knowledge Management book I reviewed earlier: Attention is the currency of the Information Age, and trust is the bandwidth. If ...
Good Corporate Citizen
Thursday, February 15th, 2007Yesterday, the CRO magazine released its list of the 100 Best Corporate Citizens. For the first time ever, my employer made the list -- yay! CRO stands for Corporate Responsibility Officer (the magazine covers business ethics, communications, compliance and governance, the environment, international affairs, politics and legislation, social responsibility, and socially ...