Archives for May, 2005
On Parenthood
Monday, May 23rd, 2005
…and then, one finds oneself saying to a four-month-old: “okay, if we’re not going to take a little nap, then why don’t we go listen to the violent femmes?” Weird.
Google Factory Tour in Stereo
Thursday, May 19th, 2005
Just sat down to check my feeds, and it feels like half the posts are about today’s Google Factory Tour. Amongst those posts I found this entertaining pair, that look like they were posted just a few minutes apart… Om Malik: Google executives are on stage talking about how they want to work with developers [...]
Scoble Ranks RSS Feeds
Wednesday, May 18th, 2005
Scobleizer: Microsoft Geek Blogger says: “Here, let’s rank RSS feeds from worst (least useful for readers) to best. Worst: headline only feeds with ads. [...]“ Yes, he’s looking at you, Moreover…
IP on IP: Defining Patent Trolls
Monday, May 16th, 2005
There’s an interesting little thread going on the IP list, started by a pointer to this article on proposed patent reforms. Robert (Internet guy of long standing) Raisch’s question, and Jason (Lawgeek/EFF Attorney) Schultz’s response, are an interesting starting point for all of our musings…reproduced below: Question: From: Rob Raisch Date: May 15, 2005 6:24:37 [...]
How Class Works – Graphical Representation of Data
Monday, May 16th, 2005
The New York Times has a nice little graphic up, entitled How Class Works, which nicely illustrates how households moved between economic bands in a ten year period (1988 – 1998). This gets right at one of my little side obsessions: when you’ve got a lot of complex data, how can you represent it graphically [...]
Fun With Server Logs
Thursday, May 5th, 2005
Somebody at Microsoft is either really on the ball or has a whole lot of free time on their hands. About two hours after putting this post live, I got a ping from a log monitoring process that I have running (yes, I’m an obsessive freak who has a process running to look for interesting [...]
Want to License a Piece of Microsoft Research?
Thursday, May 5th, 2005
Microsoft Watch has a little post up today entitled Want to License a Piece of Microsoft Research? Apparently Microsoft yesterday announced the creation of a new business unit called “IP Ventures,” tasked with licensing Microsoft-Research-developed technology to VCs and startups. Color me unsurprised. [You can skip down to the paragraph starting "Why are we here?" [...]
NYT on Patent Farmers
Monday, May 2nd, 2005
The New York Times today published an article entitled “A Payday for Patents ‘R’ Us,” that uses the recent settlement [shakedown] in the long-running NTP/RIM patent infringement case as a jumping off point to address some of the issues and tactics often associated with “patent holding companies” [patent trolls]. I’m pointing this out largely as [...]
