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Boston.com / News / Blogs / David
Weinberger bl0gs the Democratic National
Convention on Boston.com: Blogging
crosses over

Boston.com / News / Blogs / David
Weinberger bl0gs the Democratic National
Convention on Boston.com: Blogging
crosses over 07/29/2004 05:21 PM
fun post about the blogger breakfast

boston.com/news/blogs/dnc/2004/07/blogging_crosse.html
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Internal Blogs: So, Are They Different
From External Blogs?

Internal Blogs: So, Are They Different
From External Blogs? 03/29/2005 07:22 AM
Internal Blogs: So, Are They Different From External Blogs?
http://www.llrx.com/features/internalblogs.htm

Dennis Hamilton shares his experience with launching a blog behind the corporate firewall, and suggests parameters that focus on content value to ensure its successful implementation. This is an feature article appearing in the March edition of Sabrina I. Pacifici's LLRX.com.

Reading bl0gs, writing bl0gs

Reading bl0gs, writing bl0gs 06/06/2004 06:45 PM
Kansas City Star (subscription),MO-9 hours ago• BlogPulse.com offers a blog search engine. Just type in keywords of interest. Or use Google to search for “blog” and keywords of interest. ...

What's the Problem?

What's the Problem? 02/01/2005 09:28 PM
and Tim Meehan Freud asked, "What does a user really want?" Ten-plus years into web development, we still don't know. One of the biggest problems in creating and delivering a site is how to decide, specify, and communicate exactly what we're building and why. Use cases can help answer these questions by providing a simple, fast means to decide and describe the purpose of your project. In this quick-reading article, Messieurs Carr and Meehan introduce use cases and their, uh, uses.

a problem we could fix

a problem we could fix 05/25/2004 12:50 AM
"It's extremely difficult to govern when you control all three branches of government." John Feehery, spokesman for House Speaker Dennis Hastert, Washington Post, 5/23/04. And when did political parties begin to claim "control" of the Judicial Branch? Someone should inform the Justices. I don't think they've been told yet.

Another Day, Another IE Problem

Another Day, Another IE Problem 07/02/2004 08:22 AM

Security risks swell for Microsoft's Explorer: From the Gee, That's Obvious Department.

Using Microsoft's Internet Explorer Web browser to surf the Internet has become a marked risk — even with the latest security patches installed.

That's the upshot of the discovery of yet another Internet Explorer security hole being exploited by intruders bent on swiping personal information from unwitting Internet users.

[...] "Internet Explorer's track record is such that the software just cannot be trusted right now," says Jeremiah Grossman, CEO of WhiteHat Security.

Again, I ask: if you're still using IE...why?

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A look at the problem

A look at the problem 12/30/2004 06:51 AM
USA Today Dec 30 2004 10:57AM GMT

Win XP Sp2 Problem

Win XP Sp2 Problem 08/27/2004 01:56 PM
Introduced in Service Pack 2, along side many other security features, Windows XP gained the "security center" (screenshot). A nice addition, and a central place for people to check their system's security status. So we thought.

eWeek and PC Magazine have published reports suggesting that the system can be spoofed very easily, allowing potentially nasty programs to perform un-wanted tasks. "Based on an anonymous tip, we looked into the WMI and the Windows Security Center's use of it, and found that it may not only be a security hole, but a crater in the wrong hands. Due to the nature of WMI, the WSC could potentially allow attackers to spoof the state of security on a user's system while accessing data, infecting the system, or turning the PC into a zombie for spam or other purposes."

The PC Magazine article explores the problem and how it can be exploited in good depth. It makes very depressing reading for users who had hoped that Microsoft had over-come this kind of problem with Service Pack 2. Microsoft responded to the article suggesting that they didn't think it was a problem at all; they added that you needed to be running as an administrator for it to be an issue; true, PC Mag agreed, but they also noted that XP Home runs (by default) as Admin, and most users of XP Pro make themselves administators to save hassle when installing and running programs.

Service Pack 2 is a necessary upgrade for all users, and everyone should install it. However, as the article and Neowin recommend, don't rely to heavily on these new security features. Ensure you update Firewall / AV / Windows often, and check the status of your protection often. Microsoft will never be able to be 100% safe / problem free, but they are trying, and should be commended for their effort.

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Top Tip: Do I have a RAM problem?

Top Tip: Do I have a RAM problem? 02/12/2004 12:51 PM
After POST but before win xp starts up I hear two beeps and the computer never gets past detecting the drives (the hard drives and dvd-rom). Most of the time it boots fine. Then when I shut the system down sometimes I get the two beeps agian and it never shuts off...

What's Your Problem?

What's Your Problem? 11/27/2002 07:36 AM

P2P Porn Is Not The Problem

P2P Porn Is Not The Problem 12/12/2003 12:51 PM
A few months back, when Senator Orrin Hatch was convinced by some wealthy backers that the real problem with P2P file sharing systems was that porn was available, we wondered how that was any different from the internet. There's lots of porn on the internet, but politicians aren't running around saying that we need to shut it down. But, because of some misleading statements by the entertainment industry, politicians are freaking out about the file sharing networks. If they do try to do something to shut them down, of course, the porn will just move elsewhere where it will be harder to shut it down. In fact, the porn already is elsewhere - as it has been all along. The U.S. General Accounting Office (GAO) is telling Senator Hatch that P2P porn is no worse than what's already available on the web. Hatch's original statement was based on a GAO report, but they're now saying that wasn't based on a comprehensive study, but tips that were sent in to the National Center for Missing and Exploited Children. Only about 1.4% of those tips concerned P2P networks.

om on the problem with free

om on the problem with free 06/15/2004 11:56 AM
free blogging has its place, and it also has its costs. god bless the export button.

Bad Search Is Still A Problem

Bad Search Is Still A Problem 07/23/2004 06:25 AM
Bad Search Is Still A Problem
http:/ /www.cioinsight.com/article2/0,1397,1610163,00.asp

Web usability guru Jakob Nielsen says that one of the most persistent challenges facing the Web is the difficulty in finding anything: "Bad search continues to be a problem today even though, from a technology perspective, great progress has been made. You can see this plainly when you use the public search engines. They're much better today than they were ten years ago. But the search on individual Web sites or inside intranets is, typically, still bad. [On intranets] things are divided up into different knowledge bases, so you've got to know where to search, and if you need to know where to search, then that defeats the entire idea. The other problem about search is the content, which is to say the individual pages, or units of information, are typically poorly described in terms of things like the headline and summaries, which is all people have to choose from when they get the search-results listing. So if there was just one thing we could fix on the Web, and for intranets as well, I would say let's fix search; that's still the number one thing that's causing people problems." Nielsen estimates that an average mid-size company (10,000 employees) could expect a return on investment of 1,000% and a gain of $5 million a year in employee productivity, simply by improving the usability of its intranet.

PCs certain, Left no problem

PCs certain, Left no problem 05/29/2004 06:16 PM
Calcutta Telegraph May 29 2004 9:57PM GMT

Mac Or PC, No Longer A Problem

Mac Or PC, No Longer A Problem 04/05/2005 04:18 AM

There is a blurring of lines between computer platforms these days, and it might be good news for computer users of all stripes. By Mark Kellner, Washington Times

What RSS Bandwidth Problem?

What RSS Bandwidth Problem? 02/05/2005 10:12 PM
The so-called RSS Bandwidth Problem is a meme that just won't frickin' die. I think Joel Spolsky started it way...

Quitting Is Not A Problem

Quitting Is Not A Problem 12/02/2003 01:26 PM
A new study has found that, despite the slower job market, employees are just as willing to quit their job now than they were at the height of the boom years, when jumping ship seemed like a monthly option for some workers. Many people will jump for just a little bit more money, but good working conditions and the belief that the company is going somewhere helps. Of course, many companies have been treating their employees terribly lately, believing that they have no other options - but that may be changing.

Another includer.cgi problem?

Another includer.cgi problem? 03/19/2005 03:11 AM
cout_at_cyberspace.org (Mar 16 2005)

The Problem With Presntations

The Problem With Presntations 12/18/2003 05:45 AM
Doc Searls' advice on PowerPoint .. The Problem With Presentations .. It’s the story, stupid .. piece

searls.com/present.html
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ANTISEMITISM ISN'T A PROBLEM

ANTISEMITISM ISN'T A PROBLEM 12/07/2003 07:07 AM
Noam Chomsky .. no mention

pejmanesque.com/archives/005164.html
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The Problem with Web Polls

The Problem with Web Polls 01/24/2004 10:36 PM

Gay Marriage Poll Gets Annulled: Here's a example of why Web polls are silly. The American Family Association put a poll on their Web site asking people if they were opposed to or in favor of gay marriage with ultimate plans to take the results to Congress. Of course, they assumed that with their sympathetic visitor base, they'd have great results. Sadly:

Against the wishes of the AFA and its members, the poll leaked to the outside. And soon, people like Gabe Anderson began posting it to blogs, social-networking sites such as Friendster and sundry e-mail lists. When Anderson posted it to his blog on Dec. 18, 2003, the anti-gay-marriage position was leading, with 51.45 percent of respondents opposing gay marriage or civil unions.

But with his posting, in which he alerted his readers to the poll, Anderson — and many like him — began to unleash the democratic power that the Internet promises, and which organizations like the AFA must have forgotten: the ability to bring people together to fight for, or against, a cause.

You have to wonder why the AFA would do this in the first place. Web polls are not even remotely scientific, so what results did they plan to take to Congress? Incredibly biased ones?

This reminds me of something that happened with Microsoft two years ago. There was a poll by ZDNet about which platform was better: J2EE or .Net. .Net was trailing, until...

Only 21.5 percent said they planned to use Microsoft .Net--even less than the figure (23.5 percent) planning to use neither. But by the time the poll closed, on January 5, the results had dramatically changed, with three quarters of voters claiming to be implementing .Net.

Sadly, there was a clear trail of an email campaign.

Several of the voters evidently followed a link contained in an e-mail, the subject line of which ran: "PLEASE STOP AND VOTE FOR .NET!" ZDNet logs include the Web address from where the e-mails were sent and showed that the people who followed that link all had e-mail addresses in the microsoft.com domain.

It got worse. ZDNet claimed to have proof of bots voting multiple times, and people casting multiple votes.

These things are obviously bad, but is there any problem with the email campaigns in either case? Companies put these things on the Web to get input, and can they realy complain about world-of-mouth. It's anyone's right to email anyone about something they think they'd be interested in. The problem comes when there's a tipping point and the results get irretrievably skewed.

Which leads me back to an important point: Web polls are of no use to anyone. Period.

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What Happens When You Don't Understand
The Problem

What Happens When You Don't Understand
The Problem 12/16/2003 06:28 PM
The real source of the vulnerability is not Apple's code, or really even their implementation. But the DHCP standard itself. (John C. Welch via MyAppleMenu)

Houston, We Still Have A Problem

Houston, We Still Have A Problem 07/28/2004 09:41 AM
According to Walt Mossberg of Wall Street Journal, Sony's latest Network Walkman (what a stupid name) is "markedly inferior overall" when compared with the iPod.
Which means that the entire tech industry has yet invented the iPod-killer.

CSS Problem-Solving

CSS Problem-Solving 04/09/2004 04:01 PM
Save your sanity. After spending an hour debugging CSS with Tim Bray this morning, I've written up some of my handier CSS problem-solving techniques.

The Problem of Consciousness

The Problem of Consciousness 08/07/2004 09:01 PM
Time for another paper on the problem of consciousness! This new one by Murat Aydede and Güven Güzeldere has the impressive title, Cognitive Architecture, Concepts, and Introspection: An Information-Theoretic Solution to the Problem of Phenomenal Consciousness (PDF format). It goes over a lot of the problems and disagreements that persist among philosophers and scientists about consciousness, and then proposes a new theory. Their idea, which should be good news for anyone working on intelligent machines, is basically that good old-fashioned information theory contains everything that's needed to explain phenomenal consciousness. Along the way, they talk about introspection, daydreaming, phenomenal zombies, vertical versus horizontal information processing, and other fun stuff. The 65 page article includes loads of lengthy footnotes referencing just about every modern philosopher who has philosophised about consciousness, from Dennett to Searle (with cameo appearances from Descartes and Locke).

Low Numbers, New Problem

Low Numbers, New Problem 08/06/2004 10:25 PM
In the face of paltry numbers on job growth, President Bush's new slogan, "we've turned the corner," sounds premature at best.

An $8 Billion Problem

An $8 Billion Problem 08/05/2004 04:12 PM
Plus, Microsoft wants your thoughts, Gap takes a spill, and Sara Lee has indigestion?

The Problem with .NET Generics

The Problem with .NET Generics 08/05/2004 03:28 AM
One of the most awaited features of Microsoft .NET 2.0 is generics. Generics promise to increase type safety, improve performance, reduce code duplication and eliminate unnessecary casts. The most obvious application of generics in the framework class library are the generic collections in the new System.Collections.Generic namespace. Much has been written about those, but they are not the topic of this article.

AMD compatibility no problem

AMD compatibility no problem 02/16/2004 06:49 PM
CNET Asia Feb 16 2004 9:55PM GMT

No chads, no problem

No chads, no problem 02/13/2004 11:47 PM
USA Today Feb 14 2004 4:08AM GMT

Image problem

Image problem 08/02/2004 08:46 AM
I'm a strait-laced progressive. Why do people think I'm a Republican?

Bluetooth Problem!

Bluetooth Problem! 12/25/2004 04:52 PM
All About Symbian Dec 25 2004 9:42AM GMT

No regs, no problem

No regs, no problem 01/24/2004 03:30 AM
USA Today Jan 24 2004 7:11AM GMT

The Barbie Problem

The Barbie Problem 05/24/2004 06:27 AM
What is it with Barbie and commitment?

The Version Problem

The Version Problem 01/23/2004 02:23 PM
The cobbler's children go barefoot -- or, why the Safari guy's Safari blog doesn't work right in Safari 1.0 -- or linking the browser to the operating system. Wasn't that supposed to be a bad thing?

Policy problem

Policy problem 01/03/2005 10:04 AM
USA Today Jan 3 2005 2:07PM GMT

The only problem was that there was two
women for every man.

The only problem was that there was two
women for every man. 01/22/2004 02:12 AM
50's Women and Their World
:: via blort and Madamjjj ::

The problem with abundance

The problem with abundance 11/01/2003 07:33 PM
BoingBoing pal Clayton says:

Here's an interesting piece on the unforeseen problems that can arise in modern society when previously scarce resources become commonplace... from obesity to P2P. And it kind of puts the Amish desire to "freeze" progress in a new light, as if it were the desire to blunt massive societal upheaval from new tech developments.

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The Problem with JavaScript

The Problem with JavaScript 03/20/2003 01:05 PM
JavaScript is the scapegoat for many of the Web's problems, including pop-ups, pop-unders and other much-maligned browser behaviors. The language's reputation also has been sullied by malware, such as the infamous Nimda worm, that uses it to spread through the Web. The truth, however, is that JavaScript is not to blame.
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