Saturday, January 03, 2004

How to display del.icio.us links in a sidebar. courtesy Jeff Veen [Learning the Lessons of Nixon] 5:54:20 PM    comment []

How many bytes to store all human speech, ever? [bOing bOing via Ben Hammersley] 3:46:15 PM    comment []

Booxter. Deep Pröse recently introduced a MacOS-X program to manage your book library. It allows you to enter all kinds of information about your books both official and personal. It allows for create book lists. The program looks very nice and is reminiscent of iTunes. The interesting feature is however the integration with Amazon. Dragging an Amazon URL into the library will add a new book and the then the field can be populated... [Blueblog] 12:42:19 PM    comment []

That Parent-Child Conversation Is Becoming Instant, and Online. Instant messaging, long a part of teenagers' lives, is working its way into the broader fabric of the American family. By John Schwartz. [New York Times: Technology] 12:31:51 PM    comment []

To Help Poor Be Pupils, Not Wage Earners, Brazil Pays Parents. Latin American governments are giving the poor small cash payments if they keep their children in school and take them for regular medical checkups. By Celia W. Dugger. [New York Times: Education] 9:00:34 AM    comment []

Will Richardson: Blogging and RSS. (For educators.) [Scripting News] 8:57:37 AM    comment []

The Economist: How the radio changed its spots. Ultimately, smart radios could do away with the standards wars that bedevil the wireless industry and so irritate users. The technology would promote innovation by allowing all kinds of new standards to flourish, while concealing the underlying complexity from users who are currently mired in an alphabet soup of incompatible standards. [Tomalak's Realm] Great issue that everyone should know about. Here's more from A blog doesn't need a clever name on cognitive radio and on smart radio. 8:44:58 AM    comment []

Card Browser. This service provider has a database of people, which they harvested from business cards collected at events. The database is mainly sold to enterprises for finding leads or possible employees. Probably the making of this database is illegal, as the owners did not give to end up in a database and have their data sold. I tried to find some people in the database, but I did not succeed. [inspiration... [Blueblog] 8:40:07 AM    comment []