Shadow Illuminator: From Robotics to Photography — and to Howard. Vladimir Brajovic is a robotics researcher at Carnegie Mellon University. His goal is to give a better vision sense to robots. But in an unexpected side-effect, he developed a smart system to automatically enhance underexposed photos. The result, the Shadow Illuminator, is quite convincing. Shadow Illuminator examines the content of…
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Jay Cross overview of knowledge…
Jay Cross overview of knowledge management. Knowledge Management. Knowledge management is a high-fallutin’ buzz phrase for creating and sharing know-how. A hot item circa 1998, overuse watered down KM’s popularity as a category (although it’s still a hot item in Europe). To vendors, KM became “whatever I want to sell you,” be it… [Internet Time Blog] A predictably rich and…
My experience with Total Choice…
My experience with Total Choice Hosting. Last month, I asked for help in evaluating a new webhost. I was paying $25/month to Verio for what I felt was sub-par service. Thanks to several recommendations in the comments (and in a few private e-mails), I ended up going with TotalChoiceHosting. First off, the price: $4/month, with a free month if you…
Can RSS, Sun, Apple challenge…
Can RSS, Sun, Apple challenge MS Office?. Steve Gillmor thinks so: [RSS] could be as disruptive to personal computing as the digital video recorder has been to television…Generated by Weblog authoring tools such as the pioneering Radio UserLand, RSS feeds were consumed by a growing circle of cross-linking bloggers and a spillover audience from the trade press. But vendors and…
Northern Light To Relaunch Its…
Northern Light To Relaunch Its Enterprise Service. : Northern Light, the “research engine”, so to speak, whose lights went out last year and was bought back again by its founder, will introduce the Northern Light Business Research Library on January 15, 2004. It will be a paid… [PaidContent.org]
Executive blogging issues. [1].
Executive blogging issues.. Robert Scoble wrote: I keep asking executives “when you gonna start a weblog?” But, quite consistently get an answer of “way too busy.” I asked Sanjay and Dan’l that about a week ago. They both ran down what their schedules look like. Nearly every minute of every day is scheduled. Dan’l told me he often is traveling…
Bayesian Aggregator [1]. In a…
Bayesian Aggregator. In a comment, Kevin Jordan writes: 348North News is a normal aggregator in much of the way you think of it. However, it allows me to identify keywords or themes that it puts together into phrases ? and then matches up the phrases with like articles. Like a cross between Google News and Daypop (but that makes it…
Data Emergence [1].
Data Emergence. Robin Good has a fascinating post on personal knowledge mapping, with a goal “to define, draft and invent tools and approaches that would facilitate a tacit knowledge creation/sharing mechanisms while not adding extra layers of work and responsibility to every knowledge worker in the organization.” A quote from Snell: Any Web site should become nothing more than a…
Turning mind into matter [1]….
Turning mind into matter. Thomas Davenport and H. James Wilson have written an article on business and technology innovation. To quote: Any technology executive who wants to advance a slate of emerging technologies should become very familiar with ways to foster new business and… [Column Two]
New Wiki Implelementation Struggles -…
New Wiki Implelementation Struggles – To structure or not?. I am working on an implementation of several wikis. One is my personal wiki which runs on my laptop. I’ve often written about it here. Things are by and large going very well. I am also involved in my team’s implementation of a wiki. So far, the biggest struggle has been…