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Net Hacker Tool du Jour: Google |
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| Topic: Technology |
11:42 am EST, Mar 4, 2003 |
Google. It's not just for making yourself seem smarter than all the other 1Us3rS. Net Hacker Tool du Jour: Google |
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Radebaugh: The Future We Were Promised |
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| Topic: Arts |
3:50 pm EST, Mar 3, 2003 |
Welcome to the exhibition of rediscovered works by the mid 20th century illustrator A.C. Radebaugh. A very cool exhibit, soon to open in Philadelphia, displaying lots of futuristic graphic artwork from the 1950s. Flying cars, urban airships docked at skyscrapers, and more. This stuff is almost propagandist in its technological optimism. Radebaugh: The Future We Were Promised |
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News: Expert: Router holes threaten Net |
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3:48 pm EST, Mar 3, 2003 |
] The border gateway protocol, a widely used technology for
] efficiently routing data through the Internet, is rife
] with security holes and needs to be replaced, a security
] consultant warned. I can't believe there hasn't been more 'incidents' involving BGP. News: Expert: Router holes threaten Net |
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Pondering Value of Copyright vs. Innovation |
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3:29 pm EST, Mar 3, 2003 |
] Technology scholars, business leaders and policy makers
] gathered at California conferences this weekend to argue
] whether a mismatch between two different technologies and
] the legal policies that govern them could inhibit free
] expression and innovation. registration for the NYT required. Pondering Value of Copyright vs. Innovation |
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Tech businesses in disguise |
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| Topic: Business |
3:25 pm EST, Mar 3, 2003 |
Article about outsourcing HR and finance processing to other companies. Tech businesses in disguise |
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Looking for Intelligence in Ice Cream |
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3:17 pm EST, Mar 3, 2003 |
A great article about business intelligence software, with some interesting examples of usage. Looking for Intelligence in Ice Cream |
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Transformation Trends - 17 February 2003 |
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12:00 am EST, Mar 3, 2003 |
Power is moving to the larger system level, while violence is moving downwards to the individual level ... Networking is about human behavior. Remember that to network is a verb. If you want to increase the richness of your information you get that by sharing it. The power of information comes in the ability to share it as opposed to the ability to hoard it. The soldier on the front line needs a network structure and he has to be shown that power comes out of that network structure. He have to institutionalize peer-to-peer and power-to-the-edge. ... If we do that well we find that we step out of the information domain of merely networking and into the cognitive domain where battles are truly won or lost. One of the most gut wrenching things that occured during the raid in Somalia depicted in Black Hawk Down was the direction of the caravan through the city through two levels of higharchy. It was obviously stupid. You had someone in a command center looking at a video of the caravan, making a decision, relaying that decision to someone in an airplane, who relayed that decision to the driver. By the time the driver got the decision the circumstances had totally changed. Thats it in a nutshelll. In the past the people at the top made decisions because they were the only ones with the perspective to make them. This is an extremely inefficient way to operate. The people on the frontlines need to be making the decisions, and the people in the offices are simply there to give them the perspective they need to make those decisions. These changes will mirror the changes you'll see in every kind of organization that exists. Transformation Trends - 17 February 2003 |
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Why Ma Bell should buy Covad |
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3:36 am EST, Mar 1, 2003 |
] Here's why AT&T should buy Covad: it'll keep losing
] customers like myself if it doesn't get with the program
] and offer another product. First, Bambi looks like Haifa.
Second, the reason why ATT couldn't do anything with Northpoint was because there was no one with a brain in their head left at Northpoint when ATT bought up the assets.
Third, if ATT can't make anything of Northpoint when it only cost pennies on the dollar, what makes her think they could plow $300M+ for COVD and get anything?
Fourth, I really really want to slap the guy that says that this is an obsolete service. What the hell is this guy gonna buy next month? Telepathy?
Finally, as much as I'd like to see ATT buy COVD, if just to have a somewhat blunt instrument against the Bells, it will never happen. No one wants to touch COVD because they've got stink all over them. A feature that is well, quite deserved. Why Ma Bell should buy Covad |
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