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Down at Comdex … creating the future …
I’m down in Las Vegas … spent the whole day, and will be here all day tomorrow as well. It’s been a fun day so far. The registration was light, there was security present at the doors, and the number of people on the floor was light.

I’m walking the floor with a good friend, John Pugh, who I haven’t seen in quite a while. I’s a blast to get a chance to brainstorm with him … spew ideas at him … and catch up on things.

It’s been a fun show, and as usual I spent my time looking through all of the little booths that are here representing the various Pacific Rim countries – Korea, Thailand, Tiawan, etc. I have to say that the Korea booths were filled with some cool stuff … a lot of wireless, new funky computer cases, and some other cool products. I barely made it half way through the Tiawan section, and so we are going to pick up there tomorrow morning.

I spent some time at the Xybernaut booth … I’ll be working closely with them as we move forward with HumanXtensions. Here at the show, most of the folks are oriented towards WinCE, Palm, and the new PocketPC 2002 … but Xybernaut and few others are seeing the future … full blown PCs with full power operating systems.

I found a large number of interesting technologies and products … I found the LCD panels that I wanted for one application … and I’m searching for the others tomorrow. I found some cool peripherals, and several interesting security peripherals. There are large numbers of “Internet Appliances”, or appliance developer kits …

I’ll be writing all about this in the upcoming month or so … there is a lot going on in the market place!

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Radio Noiz!
My Radio is again making NOIZ!

I ended up getting frustrated enough that I chose to debug through the problem. After adding some new stats to one of the tables, and then modifying my viewStories script … I was able to find a “bad” story that had no table values. It appears this was crashing Radio …

So now it’s fixed … and I’m back up and running!

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Radio problems … Radio Silence!
Ahhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh ………………….
I was right in the middle of clearing out all of my back-logged reading this morning … honing the 13,000+ articles (that accumulated during my marriage and honeymoon) down to ~9,000 when all of the sudden – BANG!

  • HTTP 500 – Internal server error

That’s it. That’s all that I can get back from my Radio home page now … no more news … no more reading … no more deleting. ;-(

I’ve now e-mailed the Radio mail list … but no reply all day …

I am truly bummed out … this is the first time that I have been let down by this incredible product … I am at a stand still.

The interesting part is that I can not find anywhere to go for support or assistance … there is only “Radio Silence” …

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A good review of programming SmartTags …
I wanted to know more about the SmartTags that are being implemented by Microsoft. I first saw this concept with “Flyswatter” … a product being used by a friend that also showed me Netcaptor. This article gives a complete overview on how to implement and use SmartTags in IE …

Smart Tags: Dumb Technology?. Need some smarts on Microsoft’s latest innovation? Our XML expert Michael Classen discusses the pros and cons of Smart Tag technology and shows you how to use XML to create your own. 0828 [WebReference News]

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Alternative UI for blogging …
I have to admit that I am seeing more and more uses for blogging … both posting and reading. As these types of interfaces become available it will make it easier and easier to post to your blog, and to receive notifications of new posts.

Jogger is a Jabber-powered weblog system. Let’s get this working through Manila and Blogger too. [Scripting News]

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Nice lesson on dialogs and web applications …
This is a nice tutorial in how to create dialog boxes in javascript. I found it very useful and am going to play a little bit with my site!

Modal and Modeless Dialog Boxes. How do you like your dialog boxes: modal, or modeless? Learn the difference between the two, how to pop up both flavors in later Internet Explorer versions, and what you can and can’t do with them in this IE dialog box primer. By Yehuda Shiran and Tomer Shiran. 0815 [WebReference News]

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Tracking the popular memes …
One of the areas that I have been facinated about for quite some time is the tracking of popular ideas and current trends. There are numerous ways to do this, and I proposed one at Novell while working for Drew Major – Flow Mining. Flow Mining is the mining of data which flows through the net … with Novell I was interested in mining the flow of URL requests received by a proxy/cache.

This is another innovative approach to the same thing … looking at what URLs are placed in weblogs … what is of interest to people generating weblogs. There is a lot that can be learned by this, including observing which domains generate the most interesting URLs, and which URLs are growing from no interest to more interest.

This is a very cool project that has a huge amount of potential in many directions … IMHO.

Tracking Bloggers With Blogdex. MIT’s Media Lab just rolled out Blogdex, which tracks the most popular links across thousands of weblogs. The plan is to help the media get a handle on the explosion of personal news. By Leander Kahney. [Wired News]

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Weblogging … a truly “humaneural” application …
This is a very good article, and outlines some of the benefits of “weblogging” … which I see as another step in the direction of “humaneural” applications.

A “humaneural” application is one which improves the effectiveness of communications with a community of people. It is an application which begins to mirror the neural structures of the brain. A neuron has the ability to monitor hundreds or thousands of other neurons, and then generate it’s own output signals. In the case of weblogging, when coupled with an application like Radio from Userland, this same architecture can be mirrored …

What become amazing is the concept of Internet attached devices which will generate weblogs that can be subscribed to. If you are not watching weblogging, Radio, and Userland … you might want to!

WTF is Weblogging

Chris Ashley has written one of the best articles I’ve seen about Weblogging, Really Simple Syndication and the communities that these systems create and cultivate. It’s no surprise that his site links to Peter Ford, who I’ve been working with on integrating weblogging into education. If you want to know what Weblogging is all about then put this on your reading list.

[Adam Curry: CurryDotCom]

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Very cool “sniffer” application …
I couldn’t help but read through this application description. Very innovative … I really like it. This application not only “sniffs” IP traffic off any Internet connection, it looks for images being transferred over HTTP connections, and grabs the images … displaying them for your viewing pleasure! (Or displeasure!)

What I really like is that this demonstrates how insecure your connections can be … it looks for specific data types and snatches them … and could be a very usefull tool for administrators. This again shows how VPNs and SOCKS proxies can really provide you more security … if implemented correctly.

Driftnet 0.1.1 (Default). Picks out and displays images from network traffic. [freshmeat.net]