Author: fioritto

NY Times: Digital Cockpits Track…

NY Times: Digital Cockpits Track a Corporation’s Performance. Thanks to continuing efforts at digitization, a growing number of companies are now able to use the Internet to monitor many or all of their key performance indicators daily, or even minute-by-minute. This is done through what have come to be called digital dashboards, or digital cockpits. [Tomalak’s Realm]

Professional PHP4 XML [1]. Between…

Professional PHP4 XML. Between Wrox Professional PHP4 XML and New Riders XML and PHP book, it is hard to recommend one or the other because both are very well written and cover pretty much the same topic that matter to anybody developing XML applications with PHP. If you can afford them, it would probably be a good idea to purchase…

William Safire: Blog [1]. (SOURCE:Scripting…

William Safire: Blog. (SOURCE:Scripting News)-Cool. The idea is spreading!Blog is a shortening of Web log. It is a Web site belonging to some average but opinionated Joe or Josie who keeps what used to be called a ”commonplace book” — a collection of clippings, musings and other things like journal entries that strike one’s fancy or titillate one’s curiosity. What…

The Blogroll Works [1].

The Blogroll Works. Played with activeRenderer last night to make the blogroll behave. Check out the results – I’m pretty happy with the end result. (If you’re reading this in a news aggregator, just visit the home page. If you aren’t sure what a news aggregator is, it’s safe to assume you’re reading this on the web site itself. Look…

Smart mobs [1].

Smart mobs. Rheingold on Smart Mobs. Amazing article by Howard Rheingold on “smart mobs.” The big battle coming over the future of smart mobs concerns media cartels and government agencies are seeking to reimpose the regime of the broadcast era in which the customers of technology will be deprived of the power to create and left only with the power…

Design for knowledge work [1].

Design for knowledge work. Designs for Working. Quote: “But when employees sit chained to their desks, quietly and industriously going about their business, an office is not functioning as it should. That’s because innovation–the heart of the knowledge economy–is fundamentally social. Ideas arise as much out of casual conversations as they do out of formal meetings. More precisely, as one…