Cloudy Thinking

Sascha Becker Shine (check out an interesting resume) works for Laszlo Systems, and also writes a (personal) ShinyBlog. On Friday, November 25, 2005, Sascha wrote:

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Everybody (including me) has stopped talking and writing about the riots in France. For good reason: the wave of nightly violence, mainly young people burning cars, has dropped to what’s considered normal in France (around 100 burned cars per night). But it’s worth noting what a horrific time it was in France.

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You’ve been reading about the $100 laptop designed by MIT and the One Laptop Per Child organization. It’s a cool and revolutionary idea. As the fortunate affluent few, we forget that most of people on earth have no contact with the Internet and little if any of the technology we take for granted.

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The Wall Street Journal provides new data points about the spread of H5N1 avian (bird) flu:

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There’s a lot of buzz around Dave Winer’s OPLM, an XML dialect for outlines. Wikepedia says:

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Starting today I’m attempting to use the built-in “category” system WordPress provides.

Since I’ve “launched” (to use a grand term for an ultra-minor event) my ronj OpEd notebook (which ios using categories) I decided to also experiment with them here.

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Dionne Searcey and Peter Grant write in The Wall Street Journal that Verizon and Cablevision are in a street brawl. At issue is Verizon’s build-out of it’s FIOS fiber access network which can deliver digital IPTV video, and very high speed internet access plus pain old telephone service (POTS).

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My friend Jim Soriano pointed out this Business Week tidbit written by Arik Hesseldahl. One reading (mine): Apple may be using it’s enormous financial leverage to corner the market for NAND flash (as used in iPODs and similar music players).

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The possibility (however remote) of a global avian flu pandemic is on the radar of ordinary people. Consider these personal experiences:

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Maija Palmer reports in FT.com that Microsoft has agreed to open its file formats.

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Ray Ozzie is turning Microsoft upside down and inside out in his role as CTO. He has enabled the Microsoft Monolith to create a specification called Simple Sharing Extensions (SSE). It brings the proven power and simplicity of the Notes replication algorithm to the now ubiquitous Real Simple Syndication (RSS) XML protocol used to create “news feeds” for weblogs and other sites. [FAQ about SSE]

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This Saturday I was finally able to play with a live HP 6515 thanks to a knowledge Cingular sales person. I like the (pricey! $499) HP 6515 a lot:

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