Blogs and Bots

The story about some possible future roles for blogging brought a number of comments from readers. Pito Salas at BlogBridge liked the hospital application I described and took it to the next level. He feels that aggregators (blog readers) do not have to be limited to displaying their results as a time-ordered series of posts. […]

Healthcare Update: Blogs, Robots, PT, and IBM

The story about some possible future roles for blogging brought a number of comments from readers. Pito Salas at BlogBridge liked the hospital application I described but took it to the next level. He feels that there is no reason why aggregators should display their results as a time-ordered series of posts. For example, BlogBridge […]

BlogOn 2005

The Copacabana Hotel in Manhattan is said to be an excellent place to enjoy salsa. This week it was also a place to enjoy a discussion about the past, present, and future of blogging as more than three-hundred people gathered at BlogOn 2005. One of the ways that you can tell if a new Internet […]

Open Documents — Part 3

The battle over OpenDocument Format has begun and Microsoft is using their traditional brass knuckles approach. It was revealed this week in some blogs that a recent article, "Massachusetts Should Close Down OpenDocument", which ran at Fox News, was written by a journalist hired by Microsoft. (See an interesting rebuttal). The stakes are high. The […]

News Update

There have been a number of interactions with the press in the past couple of months. An email exchange with Keith Ryan, Managing Editor at Caspian Publishing in London resulted in a story called Beyond Blue Skies. A podcast by by John Furrier was called Time-Machine 1995 and appeared in “Always-On“. Finally, Worthwhile Magazine ran […]