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Saturday, July 26, 2003 |
 Anil:
"I'd pay $500 for a Google-branded microcontent management platform based on the Mozilla core if it were scriptable, stable, and integrated API-neutral blogging and aggregation tools"
Here is the classic response. First, would you really pay that much? Second, the microcontent management platform will end up on the client (a PC) and that functionaly will be integrated with the browser, eventually. Third, it will include blogging and aggregation capability. It may or may not be API-neutral, but even if it is, it won't matter because it will bundle similar tools on the desktop (most likely for free) and most people won't want to purchase any other software. Finally, if Google or Yahoo (AOL is too confused to even play) decide to reignite the browser wars with a 2-way browser, they are going to have an uphill battle once Microsoft gets into the fray because of the platform lock-in.
A more interesting response: is there a way to embrace and extend IE? I think there is.
2:05:24 PM 
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Nathan.com (thanks Jason): Nice taxonomy of communication (sans weblogs).
1:47:04 PM
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U.S.: 3 more troops killed [CNN: World] Did a little back of the envelope calculation on this with my an ex-military buddy of mine. The recent average of US combat related deaths in Iraq is ~2 a day right now, or ~700 a year. With ~140,000 troops in theater and ~13 to 1 tooth to tail ratio in theater (estimates vary on this ratio, Hackworth has one for the entire US military circa 1998 -- "we have 1.4 million military personnel on the books, but we have only 29,000 trigger pullers -- the indispensable rifleman who put holes in enemy soldiers."), there are 10,000 actual trigger pullers in the front line in Iraq. With 700 killed a year, that is a %7 chance of getting killed in Iraq over the course of a year. Sure, some support people are going to get killed, but the vast majority of recent casualties are among riflemen. Deaths in Vietnam were 21 a day from all causes (including accidents) over the course of 8 years with on average twice the number of men in theater.
1:33:53 PM
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Mamamusings, perhaps in response to Robb's Law, decides to move her MT weblog. She found a way to overcome the database relocation problems involved in moving her MT weblog to her new domain/server.
12:06:07 PM
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Ash. First hand experiences from the cult of Microsoft (is there deprogramming available? ;->):
"I must honestly say, the energy and passion that Steve has is amazing—almost “rock star-esque” (Almost, but not quite). Words cannot truly capture the energy and buzz in the Superdome for the 90 minutes that Steve presented. There were times when I had to remind myself to breathe as I became so engrossed in his vigor and passion for customers, partners, the corporation and employees."
11:55:43 AM
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Vikas Kamat doesn't think knowledge can be contained within a bit of text in a weblog post. He claims that online knowledge needs rules, decision making, and learning ability (AI). For example: a collection of facts in a database doesn't represent a knowledge base (as most KM vendors would claim). I agree. However, weblogs can contain knowledge. Why? There is a person sitting behind each post made to a weblog, and it is axiomatic that this person has all of the attributes Vikas requires for the production of knowledge.
11:37:16 AM
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ACMQueue: Good primer on Open Spectrum and ubiquitous connectivity. more...
11:34:48 AM
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Just a quick note on FTP hosting for those who haven't done it before. Here are the instructions I used to publish to my site using Radio (for those of you who know what they are doing technically, please disregard this post):
First, I bought a domain at Network Solutions (cost: $75 for three years). I then used the account manager at Network Solutions to put in the location of Digital-Crocus' (my hosting company) DNS servers for the domain I just bought (Note: Network Solutions defaults to their own servers, so you need to change them):
primary: ns1.digital-crocus.com and the secondary: ns2.digital-crocus.com
OK, now that I did that, the new location of my domain will take 24-48 hours to percolate through the Internet's domain system. In the meantime, I published my weblog to the new location.
First, using Digital-Crocus' domain manager to register my domain www.mindplex.org. I waited a bit until it showed up and then I created a subdomain: jrobb.mindplex.org
I then went to my FTP preference in Radio (with Radio running click this link):
http://127.0.0.1:5335/system/pages/prefs?page=1.5
and put in the following information:
- UserName: xxxx (the UserName on my Digital-Crocus account)
- Password: xxxx (the Password on my Digital-Crocus account)
- Server: ftp.digital-crocus.com
- Path: /jrobb.mindplex.org/
- Url: http://jrobb.mindplex.org/
After submitting that information, I then republished my entire weblog from Radio. To do this, I right clicked on the Radio icon in the system tray (near the clock) and selected "Open Radio." Next, I selected from the menu in the application: Radio>Publish>Entire Website. I set down the computer and waited, 30 minutes later it was done.
A final note: I did use Radio's category feature to publish additional category weblogs to different locations on my domain. More on how I did that later.
11:09:31 AM
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