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 | 2003-02-10: Blog idea capture activity has now moved from here to my sideblog, recent entries from which automatically appear in my current weblog's left sidebar. |
 | Interesting leads |
| Now that I've got Marc's activeRenderer tool in place, why don't I accumulate potential blog post topics here in this outline, then expand some of them later into full posts? (07/08/02; 11:01:34 PM by MWJ) |
| Good news / bad news |
| Good news topics |
| 12/5/02; 9:43:08 AM by MWJ |
| NPR (on 12/3/02): Southwest Airlines success, sincere taking care of employees and customers, president Colleen _____ |
| Marketplace (on 12/4/02): Highwire fuel cell-powered automobile, GM appears to be serious, waste product is H2O, Larry Burns, VP Research & Development, "leaving petroleum economy, entering hydrogen economy," only responsible way forward, by 2010, good way for GM to make a lot of money (Jamie Kittman) |
| 12/11/02; 9:09:46 AM by MWJ |
| NPR Morning Edition: |
| Ev Erlich, undersecretary of state in Clinton admin |
| "Trade protection is a form of corruption . . ." |
| Bad news topics |
| 12/6/02; 12:21:02 PM by MWJ |
| NPR (on 12/6/02): Migratory songbird population being devastated by cell phone tower beacons |
| Marketplace (on 12/4/02): explosion of SUVs in U.S., poor fuel economy, increased emissions, increased dependence on foreign oil, "I'm changing the environment, ask me how" |
| Articles to read |
| Research this |
| XFML |
| liveTopics pref for XFML export available, but shows "Macro error: The file 'xfml-map.xml' wasn't found." |
| "Drupal is an open-source platform and content management system for building dynamic web sites offering a broad range of features and services including user administration, publishing workflow, discussion capabilities, news aggregation, metadata functionalities using controlled vocabularies and XML publishing for content sharing purposes." |
| Dublic Core (as used by Horst) |
 | Archives |
| 2002 |
| 06 |
| 06/04/02; 5:57:12 PM by MWJ |
 | Zeldman's Exit Gallery |
| 06/05/02; 5:52:38 PM by MWJ |
| CUPS success on Mac OS X via fink |
| centering prayer |
| getting galeon to work in Mac OS X |
| GCONF_CONFIG_SOURCE=`gconftool-1 --get-default-source` sudo gconftool-1 --makefile-install-rule /sw/etc/gconf/schemas/galeon.schemas |
| sudo gconftool-1 --shutdown |
| 07 |
| 07/08/02; 10:51:27 PM by MWJ |
| My local public radio station regularly announces, ". . . also webcast at www.___.org." This pisses me off, as I don't think a Windows Media Player feed by itself qualifies as webcasting. The whole idea of a single proprietary media format on public radio is just wrong. |
| I notice several public radio stations in the Kevin's big list provide alternative feeds as indicated by |
| 07/09/02; 3:30:12 PM by MWJ |
| 07/10/02; 11:19:39 AM by MWJ |
| I particularly like Joe's line, "When George W. Bush talks about the importance of honest business practices and corporate integrity, it's like listening to Bill Clinton lecture about chastity. (Which Clinton would, thankfully, never do.)" |
| Interesting knowledge logging links: |
| Using Joe Jenett's blue dot Radio weblog randomizer |
| For someone like me who's now in his 0x28s, this is encouraging: Doc notes that Marc Canter "likes hiring people over 40 because their high-mileage wisdom and long-term perspectives are necessary for a company's durable success." |
| Main point of article: "Linux and other forms of infrastructural software--as well as all the protocols that together make up the Net is not only that it's open and free, but that it's transparent. It is see-thru infrastructure. In fact, what makes it infrastructural is the fact that you can see through it. You can trust it because it has no secrets." |
| Doc continues, "Bill [Gates] says, 'Trustworthy Computing is computing that is as available, reliable and secure as electricity, water services and telephony.' We should note that all those services are pure infrastructure whose workings are mostly transparent. Yet for all its popularity, Windows lacks that same transparency, which makes it inherently less infrastructural." |
| 07/12/02; 5:33:28 PM by MWJ |
| 07/13/02; 9:49:26 AM by MWJ |
| activeRender/opmlRender: any way to have collapsible outlines in sidebars? |
| outlines |
| Tools I use |
| Generalist vs. specialist |
| Cover page photo linked to story of many? How to automate? |
| 07/14/02; 11:11:58 AM by MWJ |
| Newsfeed sources: |
| How best to blog/aggregate/learn? (see also Matt's 07/16/02 Why Radio?) |
| Radio: blogging + aggregator BUT not open-source toolkit |
| 07/15/02; 11:30:40 AM by MWJ |
| Dave says "Dubya should be very worried about this here story." It's on how the state of the stock market is "playing havoc with older Americans' dreams." |
| Terry at Blunt Force Trauma writes on The Synchronicity of Klogging Culture, highlighting how klogging raises our awareness of new ideas by (1) giving us more than one chance to see them aka not letting them fall through the cracks, and (2) letting other people's perspectives shed extra light on the same ideas. (Curiouser!) |
| Jeremy observes, "[Mac] OS X: It's spreading . . . fast!" and points to Nat Torkington's fresh iBook experiences. Yes. Meanwhile, I work at a company whose official position is still "Windows is the answer to everything." I find that position to be both impractical (impossible to adhere to, actually) and thereby a huge stealer of credibility. (YOP) |
| 07/16/02; 4:23:49 PM by MWJ |
| 07/17/02; 10:39:58 AM by MWJ |
| Harold Evans on Salon: The watchdog didn't bark: Why didn't the media question Bush's shady stock dealings before he became president? (Rafe) |
| Matt quotes Jenny concerning "e-mail storage issues facing North American companies," and then observes, |
| "My experience of KM leads me to expect that k-logging will not provide a turn-key answer to managing email. What it will do is, in all practical terms, to kill email. That's the solution. |
| "Many of the business contexts for e-mail could be replaced by publish & subscribe RSS feeds and Wiki leaving e-mail purely for private correspondance." |
| Apple's iTunes 3 (I'm also looking at Monday's release of Audion 3 because I really like the guys at Panic) |
| A friend pointed out "pervy hobbit fanciers" and other parody at [Lord of the Rings] Secret Diaries. |
| How to implement a more up-to-date search of Radio weblog? |
| 07/24/02; 10:09:50 AM by MWJ |
| Cool--Mark Pilgrim makes his "30 days to a more accessible web site" into a downloadable book. |
| "If you would like to centralize your Radio CSS you can simple save your Style sheet as "#cascadingStyleSheet.txt" then place it in your "www" folder. Then simply add the macro to your template. Your CSS will be included where you included your macro. |
| This method will work even if you create a theme out of your design. " |
| 07/25/02; 9:43:06 AM by MWJ |
| Rick Klau has one of the best "About this site" descriptions of a Radio weblog site I've noticed so far. |
| Rick asks, "Politics aside, I really just miss having a president who can orate. Is that so much to ask?" (I ask, Why hasn't Ashcroft thrown a curtain over that boob?) |
| Rick quoting from Information Week, ""Give individual employees within a company their own weblogs, encourage them to document their best ideas and personal experiences, link them, add search capabilities, and it's easy to imagine that at least some innovation will arise from the ordinary." |
| "Each time a Mac moves into an office environment it gets harder to maintain the fiction that homogeneous (meaning all Windows) systems are cheaper or easier to run." |
| ". . . All of these are, I think, early warning signs that the social controls whose operation has kept so many users and executives in the dark about the real costs and consequences of making an all-Windows decision are weakening dramatically." |
| 07/26/02; 2:13:13 PM by MWJ |
| 07/28/02; 5:11:49 PM by MWJ |
| blogs4God: Definitive List of Christian Blogs (formerly Martin Roth's "Semi-Definitive List of Christian Blogs" ) (Dean) |
| 07/30/02; 1:31:00 PM by MWJ |
| Finding newsfeeds (including scraped ones from sites that don't provide them--like, are there any Blogger site feeds?) |
| 07/31/02; 12:41:49 PM by MWJ |
| Clean way to export Radio weblog entries to MT yet? |
| 08 |
| 8/16/02; 1:11:22 PM by MWJ |
| Mac OS X 10.2 (Jaguar) notes |
| Radio command to force a news aggregator scan? |
| xml.aggregator.readAllServices () |
| How to lower Radio's CPU load in Mac OS X? |
| Renice app: open "/Volumes/OSX/Applications/Radio UserLand/Radio UserLand" && renice +12 `ps ax | grep Radio | grep Applications | cut -c 1-5` |
| user.radio.prefs.thread.secsBetweenChecks: 10->20 secs [ Al -> Scott -> Bryce ] |
| 09 |
| 9/5/02; 11:37:18 AM by MWJ |
| 9/9/02; 9:34:50 AM by MWJ |
| 9/10/02; 11:08:39 AM by MWJ |
| 9/18/02; 2:58:59 PM by MWJ |
| 9/19/02; 10:38:16 AM by MWJ |
| 9/25/02; 7:58:54 PM by MWJ |
| Hoosier Review: Brian Balta: No [Rachel] |
| MacWorld review: Adobe FrameMaker 7.0: Industrial-Strength Document Application Eases Publishing to Expanded Formats |
| 9/26/02; 10:12:54 AM by MWJ |
| 10 |
| 10/1/02; 10:43:58 AM by MWJ |
| 10/2/02; 10:46:23 AM by MWJ |
| 10/4/02; 1:18:19 PM by MWJ |
| 10/5/02; 1:24:52 PM by MWJ |
| 10/6/02; 3:00:13 PM by MWJ |
| 10/7/02; 6:07:19 PM by MWJ |
| 10/9/02; 10:18:25 AM by MWJ |
| 10/11/02; 12:58:46 PM by MWJ |
| Ken Bereskin on Bluetooth: "Simply put, Bluetooth is wireless USB." |
| Fortune: Tuning out the customer (with their defensive posture on digital piracy, media companies are damaging their long-term interests ) |
| MacWorld: Serve it up (in Mac OS X 10.1): Build Dynamic Web Sites Without Leaving Your Mac |
| 10/12/02; 9:19:18 PM by MWJ |
| 10/13/02; 10:51:57 PM by MWJ |
| "In a world where rationality prevailed, we'd launch a new kind of Manhattan Project to remove the energy and communications choke points. We'd actively discourage a software monoculture that leaves us so open to cyber-vandalism and corporate power hunger. We'd work harder to establish more competition for telecommunications, not let the industry consolidate to a tiny number of players." |
| 10/14/02; 3:43:26 PM by MWJ |
| 10/15/02; 4:14:28 PM by MWJ |
| 10/16/02; 1:23:38 PM by MWJ |
| 10/18/02; 1:55:29 PM by MWJ |
| I absolutely understand Dorothea's reason for no comments at CavLec. I'm "conflict-averse," too. She says, "Ordinary little meannesses that wouldn't faze a normal person can send me into a days-long episode of upset rumination." Yes. In this regard I'd like to be BigToughGuy, but I'm not. Nobody's issued me any meannesses so far, God bless them every one. |
| In amusing contrast, my wife has been known to say, "Ah, conflict--what a tonic!" |
| "Hawks in the Bush administration may be making deadly miscalculations on Iraq, says Gen. Anthony Zinni, Bush's Middle East envoy." |
| 10/20/02; 9:10:54 PM by MWJ |
| 10/21/02; 11:40:33 AM by MWJ |
| Inside Bush's mind (addictive personality?--3 articles to check out) [Aardvark] |
| 10/22/02; 11:40:47 AM by MWJ |
| HIPPA/HIPAA |
| 10/23/02; 4:38:19 PM by MWJ |
| 10/24/02; 9:33:36 AM by MWJ |
| Tech mailing list access alternative: Gmane.org (read mailing list with newsreader like Gnus) |
| 11 |
| 11/2/02; 4:40:09 PM by MWJ |
| 11/4/02; 2:12:48 PM by MWJ |
| 11/5/02; 11:48:31 AM by MWJ |
| 11/6/02; 2:11:17 PM by MWJ |
| 11/12/02; 10:38:26 AM by MWJ |
| "President Bush is a liar. There, I said it, but most of the mainstream media won't . . . What I want to know is why this kind of lying is apparently OK. Isn't it worse to refer "repeatedly to intelligence...that remains largely unverified"--as the Wall Street Journal puts it--in order to trick the nation into war, as Bush and other top US officials have done, than to lie about a blowjob?" |
| 11/13/02; 12:25:08 PM by MWJ |
| Horst: It is done (Jake Savin says Radio HTML4 compliance breaks fixed) |
| Chimera tips |
| 11/14/02; 11:16:05 AM by MWJ |
| If the Homeland Security Act is not amended before passage, here is what will happen to you: |
| Every purchase you make with a credit card, every magazine subscription you buy and medical prescription you fill, every Web site you visit and e-mail you send or receive, every academic grade you receive, every bank deposit you make, every trip you book and every event you attend ã all these transactions and communications will go into what the Defense Department describes as "a virtual, centralized grand database." |
| 11/15/02; 10:40:27 AM by MWJ |
| 11/27/02; 3:09:24 PM by MWJ |
| All Consuming ("an aggregation website that will let you know what the weblog community is reading") [Jon via Will] |
| 11/29/02; 11:15:32 AM by MWJ |
| 11/30/02; 11:11:39 AM by MWJ |
| "With industry henchmen in complete control of Washington, the Clean Air Act, wilderness preserves and environmental enforcement are all endangered species." |
| "It seems odd that the voters who gave Bush a 'mandate' don't endorse his program. They don't want drilling in Alaska, they don't much care for the giant tax cuts, they're concerned about the continuing degradation of the environment, and they aren't thrilled about privatizing Social Security. They're not particularly confident about his capabilities, yet his popularity remains comfortably over 60 percent. " |
| Then why the hell did they vote for him? This doesn't give me much confidence in the intelligence of the U.S. electorate (of which I am part). |
| 12 |
| 12/4/02; 12:35:54 PM by MWJ |
| 12/9/02; 2:56:34 PM by MWJ |
| Terry's copyright notice says "under the terms of the OpenContent license"--sounds good, investigate |
| 12/6/02; 12:21:02 PM by MWJ |
| To investigate |
| Of particular interest to me today: |
| "You write [in "Nine Parts of Desire"] that Islam is one of the few religions to include sex as one of the rewards of the afterlife." |
| "Well, for men anyway. Although there's been some pretty interesting research on that passage of the Koran that says the word 'virgin' is mistranslated and it should say 'white raisin.' Which is going to leave a lot of people very disappointed. " |
| "Drupal is an open-source platform and content management system for building dynamic web sites offering a broad range of features and services including user administration, publishing workflow, discussion capabilities, news aggregation, metadata functionalities using controlled vocabularies and XML publishing for content sharing purposes." |
| 12/13/02; 12:15:53 PM by MWJ |
| Philip Berrigan, American hero, is dead [Geodog] |
| 2003 |
| 01 |
| 1/8/03; 1:15:48 PM by MWJ |
| The Art of Blogging |
| Part 1 -- Overview, Definitions, Uses, and Implications |
| Part 2 -- Getting Started, "How To", Tools, Resources |
| Washington Monthly: John Edwards, Esq.: Republicans believe that Americans will never elect a trial lawyer president. They're wrong. [Rafe] |
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