Take a look at How Long Can the Country Stay Scared? by Bruce Schneier (via Dan Gillmor). The DHS’s threat warnings have been vague, indeterminate, and unspecific. The threat index goes from yellow to orange and back again, although no one is entirely sure what either level means….This kind of behavior is all that’s needed […]
Verisign’s suit dismissed
Yohoo! Verisign suit against ICANN (wrt to Sitefinder) is dismissed! :-) But then again, everyone (including Verisign I believe) expected this suit will go nowhere. IMHO, the other reason it is filed is to set a court precedence of what is within ICANN ‘jurisdiccion’ over Verisign and what’s not. As to that goal, Verisign has […]
Digital Content Exchange
My team called for a tender to build a prototype for a Digital Content Exchange using Semantic Web technology 2 months back and we awarded the contract to HP last week. More specifically, it is awarded to Semantic Web team in HP Labs leaded by Brian McBride, the creator of Jena. Oh yea, if you […]
Powerpoint (or Keynote) wishlist
I always wonder why there isn’t such a feature in Powerpoint or Keynote, that is, the ability to project your slides onto the screen but display your notes on your notebook screen instead. It would save so much paper and time…
IM and Metcalfe’s Law
Bill Koff, VP of Leading Edge Forum from CSC, is in town doing some project with us. And he gave a 2 hour presentation on some of work and we have several interesting discussions. One of the discussion reminded me of Metcalfe’s Law and its importances to IM. As companies started to introduce IM into […]
Teams That Succeed
Teams That Succeed by Harvard Business Review
“Ben & Jerry” on US Federal spending
Ben Cohan (the Ben in “Ben & Jerry icecream :-) made an very cute but informative animation on US Federal spending in support of truemajorityaction.org. Check it out :-)
Who “manages” the Internet?
Who “Manages” the Internet by Michael Nelson. (via Internet Policy) “Phone governance” Who makes choices about the Net?
Email, a Dying Technology
A friend once told me “A guru is one who advocates common sense…except he makes sense of it before it is common.”. It is easy to look back on hindsight and make remarks how obvious things are but foresights are often not so easy. For instance, no one doubts that Internet is here to stay […]
Singapore e-Government
A nice article was published on Public Sector Technology & Management, (a site that discuss IT usage in Asia governments) on Singapore e-government. (via InternetPolicy) Amidst the flags and fly pasts, and other very visible signs of four decades of Singaporean nation building, a profound civic achievement deserves the attention of anyone interested in Asian […]