Yostivanich

This has to be made up there is no other explanation.

“Per­haps more than any other cor­po­rate intranet inno­va­tion, social soft­ware tech­nolo­gies are expos­ing the holes in cor­po­rate com­mu­ni­ca­tion and col­lab­o­ra­tion — and at times fill­ing them before the (usu­ally slow-moving) enter­prise can fully grasp (and con­trol) the flow.” Also as I’ve said main times “But in truth, social soft­ware isn’t really about the tools. It’s about what the tools let users do and the busi­ness prob­lems the tools address.”

“In March, a pre­lim­i­nary study reported by Carnegie Mel­lon indi­cated that LED lamps were more energy effi­cient through­out their life, but the researchers pointed out that not every aspect of the pro­duc­tion process was taken into account. A new study released on Tues­day by Osram, the Ger­man light­ing giant, claims to con­firm those findings.”

“It’s not even Word’s fault, really, that these prob­lems hap­pen. Word was designed in a dif­fer­ent era, for a very spe­cific pur­pose. We don’t work that way any­more. Microsoft has added a met­ric ton of col­lab­o­ra­tion fea­tures to Word over the years to try and adapt to this real­ity, from Track Changes to Share­point inte­gra­tion. I’ve used almost all of them, and not only are they some­what clunky, but get­ting other peo­ple to use them is like push­ing a rock uphill. There has to be a bet­ter way.” I vote for mov­ing away from Word and desk­top apps and onto either wikis on open servers or a Google Docs system.

“For­mer US Pres­i­dent Bill Clin­ton has arrived in Pyongyang, North Korea’s state news agency KCNA reports. He trav­elled there to dis­cuss the fate of two jailed US reporters, South Korea’s Yon­hap news agency says. It says Mr Clin­ton will try to nego­ti­ate the release of Laura Ling and Euna Lee, who were sen­tenced to 12 years hard labour in June.” Helps to have friends in high places.

“Sen­a­tor Kay Bai­ley Hutchi­son (R-TX) is run­ning for re-election, but her web­site has suf­fered Google and Yahoo’s death penalty and has been removed from the search index. The rea­son: Hutchison’s web­mas­ter embed­ded thou­sands of invis­i­ble search-terms in the site in a bid to game search-engines; among them was the phrase “rick perry gay” (Rick Perry is Hutchison’s Demo­c­rat oppo­nent).” Note Rick Perry is a Repub­li­can, arti­cle has a mis­take, com­ments caught it, should be revised soon. All that being said, lol.

“Why is Kevin Rose screw­ing around in Las Vegas with a movie star when a frick­ing URL redi­rect ser­vice is prepar­ing to eat their lunch? Digg isn’t the shiny new startup that it once was. Twit­ter has almost twice the audi­ence that Digg has (45 mil­lion v. 24 mil­lion world­wide uniques in June accord­ing to Com­score). As recently as March Twit­ter was still smaller than Digg. Now, it’s not even close.” Never thought about this before but makes sense.

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If you have been an avid user of Cam­paign Mon­i­tor as well as Joomla!, this is prob­a­bly what you have been wait­ing for. We are cur­rently in paid beta to gather some sup­port and see what kind of seri­ous inter­est exists for this com­po­nent. We are plan­ning to have the beta for about three months before we come up with a final version.”

“So let’s see… i can request a fea­ture, but there’s no guar­an­tee that it will be imple­mented. Even if it were imple­mented, i’d have no way of using it until they decide to bless us with another code drop. I also have no way of pro­vid­ing the fea­ture myself and con­tribut­ing it to the project, unless i keep it pri­vately and keep main­tain­ing it for every new ver­sion they release. I don’t care what license they put on it, but you really can’t call this Open Source development.”

Who doesn’t carry around a boxcutter?

“Roller­coast­ers! I like roller­coast­ers!” Sad but true.

“Every morn­ing, mil­lions of peo­ple wake up to a very refresh­ing expe­ri­ence at work. They don’t see “mail­box is full” errors in their email. They don’t worry about back­ing up their data. They can get to any file they need from any com­puter, any­where with Inter­net access and a browser. They can all access and edit the same doc­u­ments and spread­sheets at the same time as their col­leagues. They use Gmail and Google Cal­en­dar at work as flu­idly and eas­ily as they use their per­sonal Gmail accounts. They video, voice and text chat with their peers glob­ally as nat­u­rally as they send email.” Google wants you to switch.

“And he’s like, Steve? Don’t hang up, okay? I’m seri­ous. Don’t hang up. Steve? Steve? Oh! Goddammit!”

“More than 4,000 pris­on­ers on death row in Kenya will have their sen­tences com­muted to life impris­on­ment, Pres­i­dent Mwai Kibaki has announced. Giv­ing rea­sons for com­mut­ing all these sen­tences to life impris­on­ment, Pres­i­dent Kibaki said the law did not allow those pris­on­ers to work.”

“Twit­ter hasn’t announced this, but we just noticed that they have now started fil­ter­ing Tweets that con­tain links to known mal­ware sites.” Great job Twitter.

Awe­some demon­stra­tion of Can­vas and Audio elements.

“You see Barack Obama’s totally real Kenyan birth cer­tifi­cate that is not pho­to­shopped and com­pletely believ­able unlike those phony Hawai­ian doc­u­ments? I mean, if there’s one coun­try that you know won’t scam you, it’s Kenya!”

“This thread just solved a big con­vert per­for­mance bot­tle­neck for me, in which basic image oper­a­tions (resize, sharpen, etc.) would take orders of mag­ni­tude more time than with older ver­sions of ImageMag­ick and would sat­u­rate mul­ti­ple CPU cores for far too long.” ImageMag­ick has issues with multi-processor environments.

” So we need some objec­tive met­ric. The most nat­ural would seem to be voter opin­ion: what frac­tion of the Amer­i­can pub­lic is to Malkin’s right? Would some­body with an equally small num­ber of peo­ple to his or her left get on a Sun­day morn­ing panel? The trou­ble, of course, is how to mea­sure that. In prin­ci­ple, it shouldn’t be hard. What I’d like to have is a Guttman scale of posi­tions on polit­i­cal mat­ters, such that almost every­one who gave the “lib­eral” answer to ques­tion 7 also gave lib­eral answers to ques­tions 1–6, while almost every­one who gave the con­ser­v­a­tive answer to ques­tion 7 also gave con­ser­v­a­tive answers to ques­tions 8–13. And we’d want pop­u­la­tion shares asso­ci­ated with each point on the scale. So we could then take known posi­tions of pub­lic fig­ures and place them on the scale: say, we might find that only 19 per­cent of Amer­i­cans are to the right of Michelle Malkin, while 23 per­cent are to the left of Michael Moore.” Really good idea.

“On his radio show, Bill Cun­ning­ham asked con­ser­v­a­tive colum­nist Michelle Malkin whether Michelle Obama’s Uni­ver­sity of Chicago Med­ical Cen­ter “salary triple[d]” for work­ing “the same job” “when her hus­band became a U.S. sen­a­tor.” Malkin replied by cit­ing a chart from her book which falsely claimed that the first lady’s salary was $317,000 from 2005 to 2008. In fact, Obama’s salary did not increase for work­ing “the same job” — in 2005, she received nearly $317,000 because of her pro­mo­tion to vice pres­i­dent, which came with an increase in respon­si­bil­ity, as well as a one-time bonus and pen­sion pay­out.” That whole logic thing is so hard to do.

“I’m Boom­town, bitch. Call me.” Kara Swisher wants to join Apple’s board.

Scoble really wants to be on Apple’s board.

“While nearly 80 per­cent of cool kids—whose lev­els of sub­stance abuse have risen steadily through­out the ‘90s—use drugs, the study found that just .007 per­cent of uncool kids between the ages of 12 and 19 use drugs, down from .012 per­cent in 1990. “Really, this should sur­prise no one,” Health and Human Ser­vices Sec­re­tary Donna Sha­lala said. “If you’d ever met any of these kids, you’d be amazed they ever left their own bed­room, let alone smoked a joint.”” The Onion FTW!

A search for recur­sion leads to a search for recursion.

“About 87% of 1,000 adults ques­tioned in June said they pre­fer to deal with other peo­ple in per­son instead of via com­put­ers or smart­phones, accord­ing to a sur­vey from Brightkite, a mobile social-networking ser­vice, and GfK Tech­nol­ogy, a mar­ket research agency. What’s more, half of the respon­dents said that they do not use social net­works.” I want to know some ages for this survey.

“Apple® today announced that Dr. Eric Schmidt, chief exec­u­tive offi­cer of Google, is resign­ing from Apple’s Board of Direc­tors, a posi­tion he has held since August 2006.” FCC inves­ti­ga­tion has to be mak­ing every­one a lit­tle scared.