In the US, some of the most influential work is being done by Janet Murray at Georgia Tech and by MIT's Henry Jenkins.

Game Theory Evolves With Mouse, Click, PhD

... and the winner is: Postfix!

Qmail versus Sendmail

] Stratton Sclavos, chief executive of VeriSign Inc., told
] investors in a conference call last month that the
] company might relaunch its "Site Finder" service as early
] as April.

Sometimes it feels as if there is not to be a moment of rest, on any front.

Where are the non-wildcard DNS based methods of directing browsers to lookup services? I remember there was much talk here of other ways to approach the problem. A quick search revealed this thread: http://www.memestreams.net/thread/bid8950/

washingtonpost.com: VeriSign Reconsiders Search Service

] Thomas Thurman has developed Joule, a nice application
] that tracks 'friend-of'? relationships over time on
] LiveJournal and displays a user's friendships over time
] in either tabular or graph format. Note that LiveJournal
] features an integrated aggregator; friendship there is
] roughly equivalent to subscription in the weblog world.

This guy is going in the right direction with his visualization engine. These graphics are way more useful then the GraphViz stuff I've been playing with.. There I am showing a little chunk of activity (or a complex mass of crap), here he is showing relationships over time..

I was thinking at one point about having a sidebar graphic that did this kinda thing, only vertically. User activity, audience, sources. This is _very_ cool.

I hear this is all MS based. People I respect keep telling me I need to get re-hip to various elements of MS tech. Grrr..

Many-to-Many: Visualizing Friendship Dynamics

This is the graphed out web of trust formed by pgp keys of people involved with Apache.

This is using GraphViz also. I like the use of shading to draw certain nodes out.

Found via Kevin Burton's blog.

Apache Keys - Web of Trust Graphing

] SAN FRANCISCO -- Lots of people wish they could jack
] their brain directly to their computer and toss out those
] annoying keyboards and joysticks -- especially people who
] can't use keyboards or joysticks.
]
] Five quadriplegic patients might be months away from
] testing a brain-computer interface created by
] Cyberkinetics, a privately held company in Foxboro,
] Massachusetts. The company's system, called BrainGate,
] could help patients with no mobility to control a
] computer, a robot or eventually their own rewired
] muscles, using only their thoughts. If the trials go
] well, a product could be on the market by 2007.

{ insert something quasi-serious sounding here that uses the word "convergence" }

Wired News: Transforming Thoughts Into Deeds

This is fun to watch, and doesn't take up *too* much bandwidth.

This is neat, I've previously only been exposed to NASA TV via various friends' satellite TVs. It has that "high school tv station" feel to it. Meaning, that they are either playing some educational tapes, showing a blank screen, etc.. Although, it tends to get interesting whenever NASA has something going on of public interest. In the past, I've seen everything from just idle shots of the earth spinning coming back live from the shuttle to cycling through various information screens from probes they are in current contact with. For instance, during shuttle flights they usually relay some telemetry data and the comm channel if they do not have other programming..

[ Update: NasaTV hasn't changed that much since the last time I exposure to it. However I don't think I emphasized enough how much random rad stuff they pump over it whenever they have something going on, and its easy to forget how much NASA has going on at any given time. The ISS (and its leak), animations built from Chandra data, the current Mars activity.. As I typed this, I just caught a series of gnuplot graphs fly by plotting out various rover related stuff. This is a nice feed to have chilling out on monitor #2.. ]

Live stream from NASA TV

] Where's a superhero when you need one? The Net, which
] once seemed so invincible, is under attack by the forces
] of evil. Viruses knock servers to their knees. Spammers
] hijack our inboxes. Hackers and identity thieves menace
] our collective security and personal privacy.
]
] Desperate solutions range from abandoning email to
] requiring a license to log on. Halt, fools! The
] Internet's problems stem from the same virtues that make
] it great: open architecture, the free flow of
] information, peer-to-peer cooperation, and a bias for
] linking strangers, not disconnecting them. Take those
] away and the Net might cease to infuriate us - but it
] will also cease to amaze us.
]
] Here's a smarter approach: 101 proposals that harness the
] Net's own superpowers to defeat its foes. Up, up, and
] away!

Paul Boutin, with help from Rand Wacker, Kevin Werbach, Bruce Schneier, Hal Varian, Scott Rafer, Dave Winer.

Some good, some unreasonable, some funny..

Wired | 101 Ways to Save the Internet

] You run an Applet, it reports to us the search results.
] Distributed computing without installing anything...and
] without people knowing you're stealing their idle CPU
] time. ;)

This is one of those link graphics that's actually a java distributed computer aplication. Although, It didn't seem to be using any CPU on my machine.. I clearly saw the applet load, but it never wound up actually using any system resources.. OSX problem perhaps? Couldn't retrieve some file? Didn't look closely.

Well, I'll say this at least.. Its not uncommon these days to visit certain web pages that suck down serious CPU. Now it may not just be flash apps and whatnot.

dcomp

] The inventor of the world wide web, Tim Berners-Lee,
] has been awarded a knighthood for his pioneering work.

] "The original idea of the web was that it should be a
] collaborative space where you can communicate through
] sharing information.
]
] "The idea was that by writing something together, and as
] people worked on it, they could iron out
] misunderstanding."

] He added that his knighthood proves what can happen to
] "ordinary people" who work on things that "happen to
] work out", like the web.

BBC NEWS | Tim Berners-Lee gets a knighthood