] "GeoURL is a location-to-URL reverse directory. This will
] allow you to find URLs by their proximity to a given
] location. Find your neighbor's blog, perhaps, or the web
] page of the restaurants near you."

A few of you will recall me talking about this sort of service in 1996/1997... This site is slashdoted to hell, but I think that ultimately this sort of thing will be extremely important. Espeically with respect to mobile devices. You will want to be able to attach a blog entry to a geographic location, and the reputation system will find blog entries of interest to you as you walk around town... This will allow you to share information about businesses in the area, history, etc...

GeoURL ICBM Address Server

January 02, 2003

For the first time, we Kenyans have more or less agreed that this time we have had a fair election with the highest number of voters turning out to vote.

One key instrument has been the mobile phone.

Smart Mobs - Kenya Elections

] "Weblogs are so efficient that they destroy the financial
] value of publishing."

I decided to go ahead and simply recommend this guys entire collection of writings. Occaisonally its nice to learn that there is somebody out there who actually does have a clue.

Clay Shirky's Internet Writings

] "A utility that reads aloud predefined web pages."

Back when I was regularily driving between Atlanta and Nashville I really wanted something like this.

Web Talker

] "In Washington, as in other parts of the country, pay
] phones are disappearing from the landscape."

The death of the fortress phone. A sad day. If these are eliminated this will create a market for anonymous "recallers" that operate like remailers.

Requiem for the Pay Phone (TechNews.com)

This is a really poor website, with few details, but these folks seem to have a very interesting polymer with dramatic piezoelectric properties. Its marketed as "plastic muscle."

EAMEX Corporation

] "People cheated."

Blogging this for future reference (if/when I speak at the O'Reilly conference. In addition to creating oligarchies, the mono-hierarchical moderation systems that people are now spinning as "reputation systems" do not work because they can be manipulated.

Why Mono-hierarchical Reputation Systems Fail

] "Sun Microsystems Inc. (NasdaqNM:SUNW - news) won a major
] antitrust victory against Microsoft Corp. (NasdaqNM:MSFT
] - news) on Monday when a federal judge ordered Microsoft
] to distribute Sun's Java programming language in its
] Windows operating system.

While definitely good, this is just a prelim injunction, which primarily means that the damage done to Sun if they ultimately win by not having Java included during the trial process would be worse then the damage done to Microsoft if THEY ultimately win by having to include it. Given that the trial process is going to last several years, this much should be obvious.

Sun Wins, Microsoft Ordered to Carry Java

] "As the Web grows, websites continue to come up with ways
] to annoy users. Following are ten design mistakes that
] were particularly good at punishing users and costing
] site owners business in 2002."

A few good UI clues, at least two of which I'm breaking. :)

Top Ten Web-Design Mistakes of 2002 (Alertbox Dec. 2002)

] "We ought not to let pass unnoticed the impending 20th
] anniversary of the Internet. The most logical date of
] origin of the Internet is January 1, 1983, when the
] ARPANET officially switched from the NCP protocol to
] TCP/IP."

[IP] The 20th anniversary of the Internet