More content categorizers. [1].

More content categorizers.. Information overload. We cope but it isn’t getting much better. And sometimes finding what we’re looking for is like a needle in a field of haystacks. Or a leaf in forest of trees. Search alone is rarely enough to find what you need in very large data spaces. For example, Google search results and Monster candidate listings…

What She Means Is “Access”…

What She Means Is “Access” Will Cost. Factiva CEO: News Will Cost in Two Years “Consumers will be coughing up for all online media content by 2004, according to Factiva CEO Clare Hart, who sees a two-year turnaround for ISPs to get with the paid-for-content program…. According to Hart, consumers do not want to pay for online content because they…

What is a weblog? [1].

What is a weblog?. Some good news. I’ve been given permission to republish Meg Hourihan’s excellent essay on weblogs. At the time it came out I was getting ready to write something similar, it was the right time for the weblog world to define weblogs, because so many journalists had been trying to do it. Meg did such a great…

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…