Software, Digital Content, Geopolitics, Economics & More from of a Libertarian Serial Expat and Entrepreneur
In: web apps
22 Mar 2004http://mediacooperative.com.mn.sabren.com/mt-pi.cgi
Rob Galbraith DPI: "Digital photography has changed not only the magazine’s workflow but also its visual aesthetic, says Geoff Michaud. "There’s a different quality expectation with digital vs. film. With film, grain was accepted and tolerated. It was a by-product of sharpness. When we moved to digital we found that the expectation changed. I’m not [...]
In: software
17 Mar 2004BetaNews: "Adobe has begun external beta tests of Adobe Designer 6.0, a graphical XML form design tool. [...] When combined with other Adobe document products and services, Designer connects to backend systems to automate business processes and collaboration between internal and external users. The software features a drag-and-drop interface with form elements based upon XML [...]
In: fun|web services
15 Mar 2004Scott Hanselman: "Crapola. Got this error message today, from the Outlook plug-in that syncs my Calendar with the MSNDirect Smart Watch services. Sync started at 03/15/2004 10:09:49 Add of [Appt: Some Appt.] failed: You have exceeded your monthly quota of calendar updates." This is too funny. For context, MSN Direct costs $9.95 a month or [...]
In: web services
15 Mar 2004This is very anecdotal evidence, but when I see that the people in charge of the Amazon Web Services don’t know about an XML standard sponsored by the National Retail Federation and launched two years ago, I’m curious about how much traction these (wanna-be) industry standards actually get. Are bodies like OASIS doing anything actually [...]
In: software
15 Mar 2004Onfolio, Inc. is: "an independent software company dedicated to empowering Internet users with software for collecting, organizing and sharing information found online." J.J. Allaire is behind this company. I watched the Flash demo, their product is a desktop app that lets you store online documents offline as well as organize, comment and share them. Pricing [...]
In: politics
15 Mar 2004Eric Olsen writes this mouthful: "I only care what justifications the twisted mass murderers of innocents and civilians make in terms of how they facilitate intelligence gathering and predicting their behavior – all with an eye toward finding and liquidating them and preventing further attacks. The point isn’t to respond to the accusations and justifications [...]
In: politics
12 Mar 2004It’s floating around the Internet, but I had to make sure it wasn’t a joke and recounted. There are indeed 911 days (2 1/2 years) between 9/11/01 and 03/11/04. Considering the kind of sick fuck you need to be to plan and execute such terrorist acts, it wouldn’t surprise me if this was some sort [...]
In: software
11 Mar 2004For some reason I had completely missed the fact that Adobe bought Syntrillium Software last year. Here’s a review of Adobe Audition, the new name of Cool Edit Pro. That puts Apple, Sony and Adobe with roughly matching product ranges. Interestingly, the three of them mostly bought their way into audio and video editing, rather [...]
In: search engines
11 Mar 2004Since I read this phrase for the first time today, here’s what it means: "Latent semantic indexing adds an important step to the document indexing process. In addition to recording which keywords a document contains, the method examines the document collection as a whole, to see which other documents contain some of those same words. [...]
I'm CEO of an online trade publishing firm in the marketing and defense verticals. We try to make news and data digestible and useful in an environment that is more noisy each day. This personal blog mixes my thoughts and interests on politics, business, software, and more, based on my business and personal experiences. Over the years I have posted items that turned out spectacularly wrong, and a few posts that stood the test of times better. Personal views only.