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 […]
Open Documents — Part 2
There are some questions people have asked me about the OpenDocument Format . The first question is what is the consumer benefit of ODF, in other words why should you care? Nice that the automotive and aircraft industries can benefit but does it mean to the average consumer? The one-word answer is compatibility. How many […]