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Brendon Mclean tipped me the wink on Splunk. A search engine explicitly for logs and message queues and database transactions and the like, “IT information”. Sometime ago Chris Locke had told me about Krugle. Finding search code and related technical documentation. Dohop, from Iceland, concentrates on building the best travel search engine. Dibdabdoo is all [...]

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I was reading the New Scientist over the weekend, and came across this interview with Tim Berners-Lee. [My apologies, but unless you have a subscription the magazine won’t let you get past the article stub].
I’ll paraphrase what the interview said; any and all errors and misinterpretations are mine and mine alone. Where I have quoted [...]

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I was intrigued to see this story about an RFID enabled purse that lets you know what’s not in it. While the specific story is unnecessarily sexist, the principle has potential. RFID enabled checklists.
And it made me think about something else.
I’ve lost an iPod nano and an iPod shuffle. At home. I know they’re both [...]

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I’m mildly confused by all this kerfuffle about Supernova 2006, apparently kicked off by Marc Canter’s comments on his blog. I don’t know Marc, and I do know Kevin, and I intend to be at Supernova again this year. [Disclosure: I have been on panels at Supernova before, and cannot rule out being on one again some [...]

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[Now how on earth did I move from Technorati rankings to Sarbanes-Oxley in one Saturday step? Easy when you know how. File Not Found to SOx via 404….]
The latest Economist, in an article entitled The Trial of Sarbanes-Oxley, reminded me of this document. It’s written by an economist and a law professor and well worth [...]

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For the first time in yonks, someone’s knocked Boing Boing off the peak of Technorati Mountain.
Who?
It’s someone called Page Not Found News Tools MSNBC.com
I guess that’s one way to make Number 1.
Check it out here.

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I was re-reading The Next Net 25 on Business 2.0 at a more leisurely pace than the first time around, you can find the whole article here.
In the article, all Gaul is divided into five parts:

Social media
Mashup and filters
The new phone
The webtop
Under the hood

An interesting list, one that I want to look at more carefully [...]

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I’ve been reading the Summer 1984 issue of the Whole Earth Software Review. Some unbelievable quotes, makes me feel truly humble. Read them and see for yourself.
From Richard Dalton’s editorial titled “Enabling Computers”

” A very liberating environment where you bump into electronically-linked communities of people you didn’t know were out there. Where your physical limits or disabilities [...]

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There’s been a sequence of fascinating comments to my post on Empowering Communities, with Clarence Fisher, Dominic Sayers and Nollind Whachell all chiming in, along with forays into Tribes Learning Communities and Kathy Sierra’s Cognitive Seduction post, coming to a temporary halt at Eve-Online.
A ravelling snowball that I’ve been following with interest, maybe even glee. But.
I think we need [...]

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I was reading the Guardian this morning and chanced across this article. [How nice it is to be able to reference something in the press without having a zillion passwords and accounts…. thank you, Guardian].
The article refers to tonight’s California bake-off between Esther Dyson of Release 1.0 and PC Forum and Flight School fame,  and Danny O’Brien of [...]

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