I'm going to briefly depart from my usual blog topics to comment on two holidays early in July that are important to me Canada Day and The Fourth of July. I was reminded today by a post on Contentious by Amy Gahran about National Public Radio (NPR) in the States doing their annual reading of…

Amy is right on the mark here! And the article on CMS watch is a must-read for anyone working or starting to work in this space. I think one of the real barriers to collaboration and KM is ease of use and flexibility. In one former company I worked in Lotus Notes was the collaboration…

It appears that many companies feel the Holy Grail of desktop computing is search. I'm not sure I totally agree with them, but I can certainly see the powe in the Blinkz model where you could find information online related to your current document. My first thought is that it would be a boon for…

Robin's summary of Mike Rundle's article is quite good, as are his comments on the article itself. It's got me thinking about this…hmm Tris Hussey, independent publisher. Probably, not. Mike Rundle writes about how the weblog medium is morphing into something more than just a “daily-updated website”. Finally someone is taking note! He writes:”A weblog…

Ah, Canadian humour. I'm not sure Robin gets our sense of humour. So read Robin's comments, then go read the Toque (which, for you non-Canadians who might be reading this, what Americans call a stocking cap…the winter knitted hat). I like Points 4 (Install a game), 6 (turn on a TV), 7 (read), 8 (go…

I haven't noticed a spike coming from MSN, but my robots.txt might have been blocking them inadvertently. Regardless, this very pubic foray into search definitely raises the stakes for Yahoo and Google. Although Google is the most popular search engine, how many folks accidentially search through MSN or don't change their default settings? On the…

This is a very disturbing ruling. Of course it only applies to the US, but where are Google, Hotmail, and Yahoo servers? Between this and the Patriot Act it almost makes encrpyting all your e-mail worthwhile. Hopefully the US wiretap law will be updated to include electronic communications in addtion to voice. Court case: E-mail…

I gave OneNote a shot when I upgraded to Office 2003 (yes, I know MS Office vs. OpenOffice…I needed to work with a lot of PowerPoint…) and I thought that it was pretty cool. I did do some brainstorming with it and doodling. I think it could have potential. Frankly the only reason I stopped…

MS is really taking it on the chin right now. This is yet another problem with IE. I think this vulnerability is perhaps the scariest. The fact that a trusted site's content could be altered right under your nose is very scary. One minute there are links to other good and trusted site, then the…

Sounds interesting, but they are almost too good to be true. I think this will be an interesting one to watch. Qnext Releases the World's Most Versatile P2P Communications Suite: “SAN FRANCISCO, CA — Qnext Corp. today announced the public beta release of its groundbreaking P2P communications suite available for the Windows and Linux operating…