One of the earliest efforts to get newspapers to work together online was called New Century Network (NCN). There were several powerhouse newspaper chains involved, and the goal was to build a national portal which pulled together the best news and information from each of the various chains involved. Various fatal flaws: Newspaper chains hate…

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OK, that’s not true. Voting is easy. Informed voting is hard. And I can’t say that I really live up to the informed part as well as I should. In California, we’re voting on various initiatives which determine how billions of dollars should be spent, and it all boils down to yes or no answers.…

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I enjoyed researching my college thesis more than writing it, so I appreciate that the Brittanica folks are providing suggested citations formats for the web. [via Hypergene] I don’t expect to use these guidelines much, but I hope you enjoyed your Leap Year. “leap year” — Encyclopedia Britannica,from Encyclopedia Britannica Premium Service. (http://www.britannica.com/eb/article?eu=48637) [Accessed February…

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When driving to Tahoe, you want to check road conditions. And you hope that it doesn’t say — as it does right now — chains required. Oh well.

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Must go to sleep, so saving the following for later (when?): Interview with those who converted Wired News to CSS – Macromedia marketing, but still probably intriguing. Whole lotta RSS from HyperGene. Guessing I’ll have seen some of these links, but just in case. What Jim Moore wants from blogging tools – I want XHTML…

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I had my first experience with public key encryption this afternoon. It was not pretty. Our work servers all use SSH. While I’ve had a Unix login for years, I rarely have used it for anything but FTP. Today, I wanted to install something, which meant I needed to use the command line. I’m not…

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I opened up NNW this evening with over 240 headlines to scan. Boiled the list down to a score or so, and I have some work I want to do, so better to just bake in the links now, and hope I can find time to get to them later (much later?). Marketers (and publishers)…

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I had a short plane ride all to myself this weekend, so I put down my non-fiction and bought William Gibson’s Pattern Recognition. According to the early pages of this paperback, this is Gibson’s eighth book. I’ve read them all, although I’ll admit that — other than Neuromancer — I don’t remember them separately by…

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This morning, at the Phoenix Zoo, I heard a lioness woofing. Maybe that’s the wrong word, because it certainly was nothing like a dog barking. But she repeated this deep, piercing ‘wooofff’ several times, almost as if she were coughing. It seemed too intentional to be coughing though. I wonder what had her riled up,…

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Rajesh Jain brings together three commentaries on information markets in one post. He adds only one line of context, explaining who is commenting on whom and what. Ross Mayfield comments on Jeff Jarvis’s commentary on Eli Noam’s article in the FT on the market failure in the information economy. That one line, plus the three…

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