Author: fioritto

Sky Dayton: Wi-Fi? Why Not?…

Sky Dayton: Wi-Fi? Why Not?. The man who made a fortune founding EarthLink (and didn’t make one with the incubator eCompanies) is now betting on Boingo, a national wireless ISP. Two out of three wouldn’t be bad. By Brendan I. Koerner, from Wired magazine. [Wired News]

Radio tip: Have a look…

Radio tip:  Have a look at DynamicDNS.org.  Very easy to use service.  It is a way to get around dynamic IP addresses provided by ISPs to DSL and Cable customers. Basically, I could set-up a domain through them (ie:  jrobb.dyndns.org or a variant on any of these domains) and have it redirect to the remote access page on my Radio desktop.  Of course, I would have…

Why Johnny Can’t Klog. [1].

Why Johnny Can’t Klog.. Why don’t people write? Fear. Fear of failure. Fear of criticism. Fear of reprisal. Fear of looking stupid. Fear of removing all doubt. Fear of permanence. Fear of strangers. Fear of invaded privacy. Fear of falling behind. Fear of the blank page.     Motive.  I’m thinking a lot about folks who haven’t written a paragraph since high…

Blog your Project Status Flash…

Blog your Project Status Flash Reports for communicating up.. Reporting a project’s status upward shouldn’t take more than 5 minutes. The technique is to boil everything down to a well structured, bullet-heavy, one-pager you can forward weekly or monthly. Be sure you can back up what you report with more detail. Flash reports, if timely and shared electronically, can eliminate…

Keyless klogging for the rest…

Keyless klogging for the rest of us.. David Gammel suggests… Perhaps we should enable the writers to write and find another way for the others. Absolutely. A few approaches come to mind. Capture experiences and thoughts differently. Photo/caption. Like Spretzatura for the work context. Video blog. Is Marc Canter listening? Vogs and vlogs. Daily movie. Hand drawings and notes. Pencil to…

Weblog as my backup brain…

Weblog as my backup brain. Blog This at Con Jose. Towards the end of the panel, Bill Humphries said “The web log for me is a research tool,” and pointed (verbally any way!) to Cory Doctorow‘s reference to Dorie Smith’s explanation of her web log as her “Backup Brain.” Teresa Nielsen Hayden said “One of the reasons I have a…