Thursday, 30 June 2005

William Mitchell - Me++ - ***

Read about this ages ago, but only recently saw a copy (although I could of course have just bought it from Amazon). From early reading looks good - one of the better books on the Internet, society and the future thing.


... not too bad in the end, some nice ways of looking at things (particularly migrating functions through different shells (clothing to buildings to domes), and plugging in/out of infrastructures (from WiFi to going to the toilet), and the notion of shedding bits and calling services to you rather than going to the point of distribution. He's on less sure ground when describing technology per se though.

Buy from Amazon (as I should have done!)


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Wednesday, 29 June 2005

Google Earth

Google Earth - Home

Pity it's not working at the moment. And just as I was about to buy the full 1km res package from Earth Explorer (Google Earth goes to 1m in places!)


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Tuesday, 28 June 2005

Microsoft Longhorn Support

longhorn rss support

Longhorn Developer Center Home: RSS Support in Longhorn

This is the spec for the RSS support that will be in the next generation of Windows (codenamed Longhorn). When Longhorn hits the streets expect the use of RSS to sky-rocket.


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Graphs

aiSee Graph Gallery

Lovely site demonstrating different graph/network maps using Aisee software. Just right for topic maps....


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Monday, 27 June 2005

Clarissa - Mother of Hal?

New Scientist SPACE - Breaking News - Space station gets HAL-like computer

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NASA is puttnig a voice activated PC on the space station. Not quite HAL but it's a start.


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A Google Usenet Timeline

20 Year Archive on Google Groups

Stunning, just stunning. Particularly the first mention of the WWW by Tim Berners Lee.


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Thursday, 23 June 2005