Brief hiatus

Earlier in the week I wrote about trying Macromedia's Breeze and Convoq's ASAP today I had the chance to put ASAP to the test. As it turned out this test not only tested ASAP but LiveMeeting and proved again why Boy Scouts are on to something. My meeting today was scheduled to be held over…

Bloggers suffer burnout I've only been seriously blogging for a little while now, but I can comiserate with this Wired article. I look at each post I read from my 80+ feeds I read now and wonder “should I post this?” I wonder if it's interesting enough, what value I can add, etc. A lot…

Like most of GrokDotCom's articles, this is particularly good and insightful. I always look at what search terms people use to reach my site. Interestingly, most folks arrive because of something I've posted in this blog and it relates to what they are looking for in someway. Whether I helped or hindered I don't know….

The Internet was designed as a collaboration tool and we've come a long way since the first website was launched. E-mail has also always been a tool for collaboration, but inboxes are so cluttered with spam and other messages that many pundits are even claiming e-mail's days are numbered. How, then, can you collaborate with…

With this standard being ratified, Wi-Fi will start getting more secure. Though, it is hotspots where I think there is still a security gap. I wonder how hotspot operators will implement security, if at all. Given that the idea of hotspots is to connect quickly and easily, putting up security barrier goes against the grain….

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…