Dead pixels instead of dead trees

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Samsung Guarantees Zero Dead Pixels

Samsung Guarantees Zero Dead Pixels 12/31/2004 10:12 AM

Sony Recants on Dead Pixels (Sort Of)

Sony Recants on Dead Pixels (Sort Of) 03/30/2005 02:05 PM

Embracing Dead Trees

Embracing Dead Trees 06/07/2004 05:36 PM

I've started noticing these totem pole-like sculptures around Helsinki and, I presume given the Finnish fondness for wood, that there are plenty of others around Finland. Perhaps Finland and Alaska could trade artists and Helsinki could get a Native American totem pole and the Inuits could proudly display a totem featuring Finnish ice hocky or giant makkara. :)

Updates may be light for the next few weeks as I get my brain flossed by the nuances of louna, loukse, louta, kanssa, mukana, mukaansa, itse, the plurals, et al. After 3 or 4 hours of homework every evening, I'm not much for anything save staring at the TV. Pääni on täysi.

Dead trees = journalism

Dead trees = journalism 04/19/2004 01:46 PM

Congrats to Richard!  Until your words go onto dead trees - you are not a journalist.  But now you are!

I guess this makes me a journalist.

Today I got my first article in print. My interview with Marc Canter made it into Computerworld New Zealand (pg 16, April 19 edition - right over the page from Jon Udell). It was one of my goals at the start of this year to get my writing published in the print world, so I'm chuffed to have achieved it! I'll upload a scanned version of the article tomorrow, because it isn't on the Computerworld NZ website at this point in time.

For those of you who may have arrived at my personal website via Computerworld, you may be interested in reading the extended version of the Marc Canter interview. Or perhaps pay his company website Broadband Mechanics a visit (newly re-designed, with my interview linked on the homepage too. Excellent!). Or you could stick around, make yourself at home, put your feet up and browse through my archive of weblog writings - by date or by topic.

What the heck is Blogging?

Some of you may be wondering what all this "blogging" business is about. The best way I can explain it is invite you to participate in the personal publishing revolution. Firstly, to read and subscribe to weblogs - try out Bloglines as an easy-to-use "newsreader". You can start by subscribing to this weblog ;-) Click here to subscribe to Read/Write Web in Bloglines. Or, see that orange button with RSS on it - to your left? RSS means "Really Simple Syndication". Right-click that and copy it directly into Bloglines.

The second part of the blogging equation is the writing and publishing. There are a variety of tools out there, including Radio Userland, Movable Type and TypePad. I currently use Radio Userland to publish this weblog and Movable Type for my linklog (daily list of links).

So am I really a Journalist?

Not really, but my interview with Marc Canter was an example of journalism. The reason I bring this topic up is that there's been a lot of talk lately about whether blogging is journalism. Jay Rosen wrote an excellent essay on this a couple of days ago. His conclusion was that "Blogging is not automatically journalism." There's a lot more to the debate than just this statement, but it's all philosophical. Read Jay's post and all the great comments others made on his weblog, if you want the full picture.

For what it's worth, I think journalism is a craft that must be learnt and practised constantly - much like being a Web Designer or Producer is a craft. I can occasionally practise the craft of journalism, and perhaps I'm even good enough to "turn pro". But the reality is I'm an amateur Journo (sometimes) and a professional Web Craftsman (all the time).

Tom Coates wrote an essay last year called (Weblogs and) The Mass Amateurisation of (Nearly) Everything... that outlines how weblogs make it easy for "amateurs" to publish. Nowadays anyone can create original content and distribute it to the world. If it gets picked up by a professional publishing outfit, all the better for both writer and readers. It's a win-win two-way web world!

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Dead, Dead, Dead. Someday Soon We'll All
Be Dead.

Dead, Dead, Dead. Someday Soon We'll All
Be Dead. 12/02/2003 10:13 PM
I had a 120gig SATA Hard drive in my G5. It died. Dead blocks all over. My last full backup...

""Pat isn't with God,'' he said. "He's f
-- ing dead. He wasn't religious. So
thank you for your thoughts, but he's f
-- ing dead.''"

""Pat isn't with God,'' he said. "He's f
-- ing dead. He wasn't religious. So
thank you for your thoughts, but he's f
-- ing dead.''" 05/05/2004 09:39 AM

Dead Like Me - Dead or Alive?

Dead Like Me - Dead or Alive? 02/01/2005 09:59 PM
In television these days, there is hardly a show that doesn’t have the blood flowing or the boobies showing. It is hard to find a show that makes it on wit alone. Till a few weeks ago, I thought I had found the saving grace with Showtime’s original show, Dead Like Me. I guess a few executives didn’t share my opinion. The fight is far from over though. In the past shows would have died…

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XML Tourist: Directory Trees to Document
Trees

XML Tourist: Directory Trees to Document
Trees 03/30/2005 09:19 PM
In this month's XML Tourist, John E. Simpsons discusses TreeSpace, a hard disk space analysis tool that uses XML to represent data portably.

The PC Is Not Dead

The PC Is Not Dead 03/22/2005 03:39 PM

The pop-up ad is dead (nearly)

The pop-up ad is dead (nearly) 02/18/2004 05:55 AM
Europe in brief

Not Dead.

Not Dead. 04/19/2004 01:33 AM
I'd better leave this on here for the night so I don't wake up to a deluge of email tomorrow morning. The Zen Garden has been down all day, as has been well reported by now. A whois comes...

Ten gig FC is all but dead

Ten gig FC is all but dead 04/02/2005 07:23 AM
TechWorld Apr 2 2005 11:18AM GMT

Is the PDA dead?

Is the PDA dead? 06/02/2004 07:51 PM

WAP Is Dead?

WAP Is Dead? 08/10/2004 07:27 PM
The Feature Aug 10 2004 11:14PM GMT

Yes, It's Still Dead

Yes, It's Still Dead 09/06/2004 11:22 PM
6 long years after the introduction of the bondi-blue iMac, reporters are still writing about the death of floppy disk.
Well, at least it's still better read than the upcoming death of Apple Computer, Inc.

dead, dead, dead

dead, dead, dead 12/03/2003 06:09 PM

Wow, they really did kill MP3.com. So much of the net's history gone in a flash, I do hope they create some mechanism (that isn't laden with DRM) to bring back music hosting or anyone that can record a song at home on their PC.

I bet GarageBand.com takes off in the absence of MP3.com, they were like a better version, though they require users and musicians to actively participate for it to work.

DOS -- not dead yet

DOS -- not dead yet 12/05/2003 03:21 AM
DOS -- that's a word you may not have heard in a while. After all, Microsoft proudly claimed "DOS is dead" when it released Windows XP. DOS is a stable and well-known operating system, but the same can be said for Linux, and some might argue that even Windows XP has become stable. So why would you run DOS when you have these newer, better operating systems?

One-Third of the Dead Said to Be
Children

One-Third of the Dead Said to Be
Children 12/27/2004 11:15 PM
Survivors arranged for mass burials and searched for tens of thousands of the missing in countries thousands of miles apart.

Dawn of the dead?

Dawn of the dead? 08/31/2004 01:55 PM
David Pescovitz: A fertility scientist at the Kentucky Center for Reproductive Medicine, Panayiotis Zavo, claims to have taken cells from dead humans and cloned them. He stopped short of implanting the embryos, but the scientific community is in an uproar. According to New Scientist, one of three cases used DNA from a young girl killed in an automobile wreck. Apparently her parents kept the tissue in the refrigerator for a few days until sending them along to the maverick scientist.

“This man preys on the strong desires of the most vulnerable people in society - giving them false hopes,” says Robin Lovell-Badge, head of developmental genetics at the UK's National Institute for Medical Research. Other scientists argue that, even if cloning a person were possible, the risk of major birth defects is huge.

Zavos's claims have not yet been published in a peer-reviewed scientific journal. Link

IntraBiotics: The Cat Is Dead

IntraBiotics: The Cat Is Dead 06/23/2004 05:39 PM
When you're investing in a company with one potential product, disaster is highly likely.

NYC to GOP: Drop Dead

NYC to GOP: Drop Dead 08/19/2004 05:55 AM
COLUMNIST WARNS: BAD TIMES AHEAD FOR GOP CONVENTIONEERS IN NYC

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The Floppy is Dead

The Floppy is Dead 09/07/2004 09:48 PM

CNN is proclaiming the death of the floppy drive. If you ask me the floppy has been dead for some time now. Once it became easy to email attachments I all but forgot they even existed. I think the deciding factor for most people was probably the widespread use of USB drives and CDRs. Let's not forget the grief that Apple received for being the first company smart enough to eliminate the floppy drive when the iMac was introduced five years ago.

So what's next? What time tested piece of PC hardware is the next to go?

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I See Dead Disks

I See Dead Disks 06/23/2004 01:05 AM
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Are Bookmarks Dead?

Are Bookmarks Dead? 01/25/2004 09:24 AM

What's Next: Now Where Was I? New Ways to Revisit Web Sites: There is a $378,000 study underway to figure out why no one uses heir bookmarks.

...bookmark lists have become "information closets" that hold a jumble of sites people never return to. Only hyperorganized users sort sites into folders, clean out dead links or click on inscrutable addresses to figure out why they were bookmarked in the first place

And, not to beat a dead horse or anything, Microsoft is again going to rei nforce my point that taxonomies just may be dead and you really just need good search.

...a senior researcher with Microsoft who is also part of the University of Washington team, has helped develop a program called Stuff I've Seen. The software is designed to help people recall documents like e-mail messages and Web sites through a unified search interface. Keyword search results include related Web sites already visited, regardless of whether they have been bookmarked.

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Dead Bug Funeral Kit

Dead Bug Funeral Kit 11/17/2003 07:47 PM
From David Barringer's site: The Dead Bug Funeral Kit comes with an Illustrated Buggy Book of Eulogies with Ribbon Bookmark, Casket, Grave Marker, White Clay Flower, Burial Scroll, and Pouch of Grass Seed. "We are deeply saddened by your loss. We hope the Dead Bug Kit will honor your bug." Link (Thanks, Invi sible Cowgirl!)

Dead shows

Dead shows 06/20/2004 05:18 AM

Lots of great Dead shows being posted to the Internet Archives.

One of these days I wanna get the Deadbase project going - but first it's FOAFnet time. Anyway - any show at the Warfield or New Year's Eve shows - were great!

Grat eful Dead: 1982-02-17. Live at Warfield Theater.

Grat eful Dead: 1982-12-31. Live at Oakland Auditorium Arena

These recordings have MP3s/Oggs [from the Internet Archive]

Windows 98: It's Not Dead Yet

Windows 98: It's Not Dead Yet 01/22/2004 03:32 PM
Microsoft last week announced that it will continue extended support for Windows 98.

The fax machine: not dead yet

The fax machine: not dead yet 12/31/2003 01:10 PM
BBC News article about the lowly fax machine and how it hangs on in the face of email, text messaging, and the everything else that...

Functionality is dead

Functionality is dead 12/22/2004 01:26 AM
Computer Weekly Dec 21 2004 8:32AM GMT

PPTP is Dead, Too

PPTP is Dead, Too 12/22/2004 01:27 AM
Microsoft's VPN protocol PPTP is now dead, too: It's been known for a while that MSCHAPv2 authentication was a bad idea, and PPTP (Point-to-Point Tunneling Protocol) relies by default on this method of credentials. George Ou explains how Joshua Wright, developer of the Cisco LEAP breaking software Asleap has simply added PPTP breaking to the mix. Both protocols are weak enough that a weak key choice--short and found in a dictionary with some variation--can be broken by iterating through a very large database of precomputed password hashes that a cracker has put together in advance. They don't have to crack the authentication process, just grab the transaction and run it on their own computer against their hashes at a rate of 45 million passwords per second on a normal desktop computer, Ou writes. Laptops would be slightly slower. Ou notes that he thought LEAP and PPTP had similar weaknesses, and Wright's update--made only after contacting Microsoft and being quite decidedly rebuffed over his concern--shows he was correct. Long, complex, user-managed passwords can still protect PPTP because this is a brute-force attack. You can also switch to using EAP-TLS for the credential exchange in PPTP, but that then requires corporate public-key infrastructure. WPA has a similar problem with weak passwords but it's tied to an SSID. So you can't precompute generally for passwords as with the LEAP and PPTP weakness, but you could precompute passwords against common SSIDs, like linksys. Assuming, as wardrivers have discovered, that the vast majority of base stations have a default SSID, this makes it a little simpler, but not trivial. Likewise, only weak WPA passwords can be broken, so you're stuck for people who throw in a couple of exclamation points. I'm just testing Buffalo's new VPN (PPTP) router, and discovered that they set the default SSID to the MAC address of the unit, which, although ugly looking in a list of available networks, would defeat a precomputed default SSID password database. (Thanks to Robert Moskowitz for a prod to clarify this.) When I say a security protocol is dead, I don't mean that it's actually impossible to use. It's just that you can no longer use it with any degree of assurance that the purpose for which it was intended can be fulfilled. It's like driving a car with a cracked windshield. It keeps the bugs off, but it's not really safe to drive...

The Dead Skunk Guy

The Dead Skunk Guy 09/25/2004 12:03 PM
25 years old and I pretty much had made it. The critics’ darling was now a success. So what happened? Why is it that many of you here today aren’t quite sure who the hell I actually am, aside from Rufus Wainwright’s father? Why is finding a CD of mine akin to archeology? Where were the follow up hits to "Dead Skunk," funny animal songs like "I Met Her at the Pet Store" and "Stay Away From My Aardvark?"
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dead but lifelike

dead but lifelike 09/17/2004 12:57 AM
JAMES LILEKS: .. Lileks

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"I already feel I'm dead"

"I already feel I'm dead" 09/15/2004 11:55 AM
Is Iraq descending into civil war? As the seemingly indiscriminate violence spreads, many are worried that it is.

A Third of the Dead Are Said to Be
Children

A Third of the Dead Are Said to Be
Children 12/28/2004 03:02 AM
Survivors arranged for mass burials and searched for tens of thousands of the missing in countries thousands of miles apart.

Dead-end job memoir

Dead-end job memoir 01/09/2004 09:56 PM
This is the first of a two-part Salon piece on working at a dead-end customer service job in North Carolina. This genre of memoir is really compelling to me, maybe because I'm so thankful to not have a job like that, but also because it's the 21st Century equivalent of Orwell's labor-condition memoirs like Down and Out in Paris and London and The Road to Wigan Pier.

This was the awakening, the realization that I had officially and for all time put my head in a noose and the hangman was taking his sweet time. And that's the day I officially stopped caring. Never stay late. Never work overtime. Never offer opinions. Do not go the extra mile. At one time, I offered to train new employees, without a raise in my salary, just so that I could take the time to train them more thoroughly (training was fast becoming an afterthought, as people were needed immediately to answer phones. It didn't matter what they knew how to do). The problem was that the people who were training me told me as much, and I refused to believe them. But the equation was simple: Management is entrenched. They're not going anywhere. The department is too unwieldy from turnover to create another position. So why would management struggle to improve the call-taker's lot?

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Update: Dan points out that the full texts of Down and Out in Paris and London and Road to Wigan Pier are online.

Are Taxonomies Dead?

Are Taxonomies Dead? 01/09/2004 09:58 PM

The taxonomy was always supposed to be the be-all and end-all of information architecture. A good, solid category structure was how all the information in an enterprise was supposed to fit together.

But they're harder to build than you think. There are shades of gray and complications. You need related categories so people can jump from branch to branch; you can slice information so many different ways; who can agree where something fits, etc. I've tried to build a half-dozen, but I can't point to any major successes.

Is the ideal of taxonomy possible? Or is it just better to invest in a good search engine? Think about it, when you visit a site, do you ever browse a taxonomy, or do you just go right to search? If you're looking for something you've seen on this site, do you wade through the category list, or just hit the search engine?

When was the last time you actually browsed Yahoo! or DMOZ? I know they're there, but I haven't visited them in ages. Last time I did visit, what was the first thing I did? That's right — typed something into the search box.

Search is a lazy man's taxonomy. It's not as organized or structured as a taxonomy, but human beings — imperfect creatures than we are — tend to settle to what's easier. So, as an information architect, do you stand on principle, or do you cater to the lazy way your users are going to look for information?

This comes from my current infatuation with wikis. There is no categorizing of pages in wikis (even after my railin g against all their shortcomings a few months ago), there's just search and linking between pages. But the search is good, and it always seems to work. Same with the search on this site — when I'm looking for a previous post, it just always seems to work, and that search is nothing but a SQL "LIKE" query, the dumbest search of all.

So, are taxonomies an ideal that just don't survive the reality test?

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Sorry About the Dead Cow... (Reuters)

Sorry About the Dead Cow... (Reuters) 06/03/2004 10:43 AM
Reuters - British artist Damien Hirst, who uses dead animals in his work, promised to apologize for a "mix-up" Thursday, after a rotting cow was left outside his studio over a long holiday weekend.

Is programming dead?

Is programming dead? 04/26/2004 08:56 AM
ZDNet Apr 26 2004 1:08PM GMT

"I'll Sleep When I'm Dead"

"I'll Sleep When I'm Dead" 06/18/2004 07:48 AM
The director of "Croupier" takes a darkly compelling look at the London underworld.
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