1-800-FREE-411: Update
The Free 411 concept is the easiest thing to explain! This is an audio update to the original story. You can listen to the audio below. Your browser does not play mp3s, download the audio file instead.
Technical Update
On infrequent occasions I have something to say about the technical aspects of patrickWeb. Today I made a change that is important to me but will go unnoticed by close to 100% of the people who read this blog. From now on Atom is the protocol I use to publish the index to what I […]
Browsing At 30,000 Feet
Opera Software is turning out to be a high flyer. The company just announced an agreement with Thales in-flight entertainment systems to include the Opera browser in one of their new products. TopSeries, the Thales in-flight entertainment system will allow airline passengers to enjoy a full-featured and fast Internet experience nearly all Boeing and Airbus […]
Open Office Is Here
Many people are already aware of the new free Open Office 2.0 productivity suite, but if you are not I highly recommend taking a look. You can find it at openoffice.org, I am quite impressed with what the team of collaborators around the world has done. The spreadsheet application, presentation tool, and word processor are […]
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. […]