My 2-year-old daughter surprised me recently with two words: “Daddy’s book.” She was holding my Kindle electronic reader. Here is a child only beginning to talk, revealing that the seeds of the next generation gap have already been planted. She has identified the Kindle as a substitute for words printed on physical pages. I own
Read More...As usual, Schneier is among the clearest heads in the fray when it comes to threat analysis: Despite this, the proposed fixes focus on the details of the plot rather than the broad threat. We’re going to install full-body scanners, even though there are lots of ways to hide PETN — stuff it in a
Read More...Tim Bray on how so many are doing Enterprise IT wrong, most notably not learning anything from the dynamic language web culture and the small, light, simple, iterative mindset of modern web dev shops: Here’s a thought experiment: Suppose you asked one of the blue-suit solution providers to quote you on building Ravelry or Twitter
Read More...Tim O’Reilly, reporting just after yesterday’s Nexus One press event: News from the front: a possible turning point for Android. I’ve been a huge iPhone fan, but after using the Nexus One for a few weeks, I find so much to like that I’m close to the point where Android might be my first choice.
Read More...Tyler Cowen with some propositions about the economics of advice and how advice relates to understanding fellow humans a bit better: 1. You don’t know what a person really thinks until you hear his or her advice. Along these lines, if you really want to know what a person thinks, ask for advice and he
Read More...As always, Bruce Schneier has some poignant analysis of the attempted terror attack on an aircraft headed from Amsterdam to Detroit over the holidays. Once a society starts circumventing its own laws, the risks to its future stability are much greater than terrorism. Despite fearful rhetoric to the contrary, terrorism is not a transcendent threat.
Read More...This is a short work week, and likely many of you are busy decluttering your workspaces and doing some basic housecleaning getting ready for 2010 to begin in earnest. Why not take a few moments to enjoy the following: 1. Christmas ’59, a short, nostalgic and funny story by John Hughes. (Fun fact: this story
Read More...We’re going to be quiet here on Unfiltered for the next few days, with posting resuming (sporadically) next week. On behalf of everyone here at MIPRO Consulting, I would like to thank our customers, partners, colleagues, friends and followers for joining us in enduring the harsh economic rains of 2009. It goes to show that
Read More...Jim Lehrer’s own rules for his approach to journalism, spoken publicly during his final broadcast on Dec. 4: “I promise you, one thing is never going to change. And that’s our mission. People often ask me if there are guidelines in our practice of what I like to call MacNeil/Lehrer journalism. Well, yes, there are.
Read More...Robert Scoble: The writing is on the wall. Small business marketing is moving away from focusing on SEO. Why do I say that? Because, well, Google and Bing are changing the rules so often and are getting so good at figuring out the real businesses that deserve to be on pages. Search Half Moon Bay
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