...could make up the majority of message traffic on the Internet by the end of 2002, according to data from three e-mail service providers. "

News: Spam hits 36 percent of e-mail traffic

Well, here is a poorly designed website that actually appears to sell one of the phoney products they used to advertise in the back of "Boy's Life" magazine. Unfortunately its a little out of the reach of the average 12 year old's allowance. Now that they've accomplished this, I'm waiting on "Hover-Boards." With a pair of X-ray specs and a hover-board my life will be complete.

X-RAY SPECS!

"Weblogs have solved the publishing problem, and done a great job of it. Now let's get to work on knowledge management, and see if these things really do boost our collective IQ."

Tweney.com - Understanding weblogs

"In practical terms, this means encrypting all information that passes over the network and equipping every computer with its own host-based firewall."

This is an anti-recommendation. Besides the obvious observation that Garfinkel's friend's network probably doesn't work too well if his whole company is connected by *hubs,* there is a serious flaw in this logic. If all security is host based, then control is in the hands of each individual employee. This doesn't make sense in a corporation, where policy needs to be in the control of the people who own the network. If policy is in the control of the individual, then this requires an organizational struture where everyone is an independent contractor who is responsible for his own personal business. Despite how attractive this idea might seem, business organization should be designed around what helps people work better, rather then what helps computers work better.

Do firewalls really give protection?

"An electronic device on board the Pontiac, however, told police exactly how fast the car had been going 124 mph in a 40 mph zone. And it enabled Trotwood to join the growing number of police departments and insurance companies across the country experimenting with data stored on computers, originally designed and installed on cars and trucks to control air bags, to determine what happened in the seconds leading up to accidents."

FYI, your air bag has a flight recorder. No big deal unless they start to use it, but just so you're aware...

DDN | Big Brother hiding inside cars airbags

"I have been able to infer that the NASA proposal will likely use sensors that are relatively close to the passengers (similar to the wands) only these will be picking up EEG/EMG readings. How the data can be correlated in any way seems far fetched. The following data are the PUBLIC sources of data I have gathered about the NASA project."

Details on NASA EEG project...

"Regrettably, the best advice I have is this: Find a different field of endeavor. Unless you're in the top rank, there's little future for you in IT... The supply of programmers exceeds demand "

The IT rust belt

Ed Felton's Weblog, stored so I can follow it.

Freedom To Tinker

"Blogs are also powerful knowledge management tools. Two new business blogging products from Trellix and Traction Software show how that might work."

Business 2.0 - Web Article - Blogging for Dollars

There is no easy way to search for blogs by content or popularity. But a bevy of new sites offer interesting ways, if somewhat esoteric ones, to browse the blog universe.

A Nation of Bloggers and Googling by E-Mail