One ping if by land, two if by sea, three if by train…

From the Globe and Mail today on wireless Internet access nearly everywhere: By air, sea or rail, travellers can stay connected Until recently, going on-line on the road meant Internet access from hotels and perhaps Internet cafés. Getting a connection while actually moving was more difficult and usually slow, using cellular modems and the basic…

Shared Spaces Aug 5

Today's updates from Shared Spaces… What concerns me (and makes me happy I don't live in the US anymore) is that the Dept. of Health and Human Services is trusting Microsoft to build secure e-mail. Call me a cynic, but I'm skeptical. Shared Spaces Research & Consulting- Shared Spaces Briefing, Aug 5 Today's highlights: US…

Brainstorming is messy

Ah brainstorming. Like Amy says in her Artistic Aside post, brainstorming is often challenging and uncomfortable. I think the irony is for me that great ideas very often come from brainstorming sessions, but often the sessions are tortuous or worse, the great ideas are lost in the sea of corporate bureaucracy. Amy has two great…

Contentious and GMail

Amy is definitely using GMail more than I am right now! But with Firefox's GMail extension GMail Notifier, that's changing. I have already started to use it as my newsletter e-mail and I'm starting (after Amy's suggestion) moving some of my non-critical newsletters to GMail. I still like getting the CBC and Globe and Mail…

Videotron announces VoIP

Videotron, the Quebec cable and Internet company is joining the ranking of the other big providers in announcing that VoIP service is coming. Theirs will launch mid-next year. The other cable companies have announced launches as has Telus and Bell Canada. I wonder if the days of the standard POTS (Plain Old Telephone Service) line…

KM posts on Contentious

Amy has a pair of great posts here that deserve attention. The first article in here lists some great KM articles and posts. I haven't gone through all of them, but some I have already read. Her second post delves into the whole information⁄knowledge duality. Another great article. The whole field of KM really does…