Digital Money Forum
Digital Money Forum keeps on top of electronic payments.
Example: ATM anniversary.
July 7, 2007
September 22, 2006
dabble
dabble is a uTube for databases.
Example Colbert.
more examples, more
July 2, 2006
Andy Kessler
Andy Kessler telcom investing.
Skype (SkypeOut), Vonage E.g.s, Philly WiFi battles Verizon
and Silicon Valley history.
Also in the NYT.
June 3, 2006
May 31, 2006
May 15, 2006
NumSum spreadsheets on the web
Spreadsheets put on the web by NumSum.
Like Flickr for accountants.
March 26, 2006
Sirius and XM at satellite guys
Satelite Radio: Sirius and XM discussion at satelliteguys.us.
March 13, 2006
droxy on Digital radio
Digital radio and Sirius at droxy.
January 23, 2006
findory turns two
December 22, 2005
Kimberly 'KC' Claffy
Kimberly 'KC' Claffy measures internet traffic.
December 21, 2005
Evan Williams / EvHead Odeo
Evan Williams, blogging and podcast (Odeo) pioneer.
December 8, 2005
RSS finds new
Rely on RSS, not new tags to find new content: undeniably geeky.
December 2, 2005
mathforge
mathforge mathematical computing.
Examples: .
U.S. hostility towards science -- Topic: General Science
By: aklemm (Fri, 28 Oct 05 at 09:23:35 PST)
Causality where none exists -- Topic: Economics
By: aklemm (Mon, 24 Oct 05 at 16:13:26 PST)
Takes up the FBR meme.
October 26, 2005
Dave Cross, data munger
Dave Cross, London based perl guy, has long been in my pingoshere.
Picks up on techs trends, not ASAP, but as they start crossing the
chasm. And summarizes them.
Also a fierce advocate for good customer service, with
emphasis on forthcoming non-deceitfulness over pampering.
And lefty local pantser.
Update 2006 Mar 01: Now on OnLamp.
October 10, 2005
infoproc / Stephen (Steve) Hsu
Infoproc (Steve) is a physicist interested in economic inference.
Example: exporting risk, Redmond visit.
October 8, 2005
New Kind of Music
An Experiment in A New Kind of Music: WolframTones.
Program and diagram your own ringtones, and more, systematically.
September 29, 2005
Blame Dick, but not for Indentity
ex-Hip, ex Active Perl guy Dick Hartd now chases marrying privacy
and convenience in a single sign on.
And he appreciates fine cars, travel, and wine.
An excellent presentation at O'Reilly's Open Source 2005.
September 26, 2005
Tech Dirt
techdirt is the thinking man's Slashdot. Better editing, thoughtful
exposition, all in the lead paragraph.
Previously: Alterslash is literally a better Slashdot.
September 15, 2005
HeyMath
The HeyMath platform includes an online repository of questions,
indexed by concept and grade, so teachers can save time in devising
homework and tests. Because HeyMath material is accompanied by
animated lessons that students can do on their own online, it
provides for a lot of self-learning. Indeed, HeyMath, which has been
adopted by 35 of Singapore's 165 schools, also provides an online
tutor, based in India, to answer questions from students stuck on
homework.
August 6, 2005
Dan Gillmor
Formerly one of the MSM popular press's better technology writers,
bayosphere's Dan Gillmor didn't stay solo for long.
August 2, 2005
43folders
43folders for power users and alpha geeks.
Today's tactical equivalent to Seven habits of highly effective people.
July 13, 2005
HTML Ampersand Character Codes ascii
July 10, 2005
Array manipulation: Perl Data Language (PDL) and piddles
To COMPACTLY store and SPEEDILY manipulate the large
N-dimensional data sets which are the bread and butter
of scientific computing. e.g. $a=$b+$c can add two
2048x2048 images in only a fraction of a second.
Perl Data Language (PDL), PDL::Impatient - PDL for the impatient
A PDL scalar variable (an instance of a particular class of
perl object, i.e. blessed thingie) is a piddle.
Mozbot, France's prettier Google
Search for stylized facts or for Coruscation at Mozbot, France's prettier Google.
July 2, 2005
V&V: Verification, Validation
Verification: testing against specifications.
Validation: testing against operating goals.
June 29, 2005
Mexoryl
Mexoryl SX is one of the few sure and stable UVA sun filters. It
provides long-lasting, effective protection due to the virtually
impervious nature of the molecule to the action of solar energy. In the
key field of sun-protection research, Mexoryl SX has been patented by
L'Oréal, and has been used in the Group's sunscreen formulations in
Europe since 1993. Research activities are underway to develop products
that can be introduced to the US market.
When they prescribe sunscreens to patients, dermatologists should
be aware both of the SPF and UVA protection ... that is the main
issue. Americans are probably the worst who are not protected
from the sun and particularly from UVA radiations.
-- André Rougier, Ph.D., Dermatology Times.
June 26, 2005
Google tutor
June 11, 2005
Tag Soup
Clay Shirky on tagsonomy: tags are cheap reader (not author/editor)
supplied metadata, having (at least) these characteristics:
1. It’s made by someone else
2. Its creation requires very few learned rules
3. It’s produced out of self-interest (Corrolary: it is guilt-free)
4. Its value grows with aggregation
5. It does not break when there is incomplete or degenerate data
And this is what’s special about tagging. Lots of people tag links on
del.icio.us.
June 10, 2005
Radar O'Reilly buzzes software
Radar O'Reilly buzzes social and open source software, with a
smattering of user empathy.
Another group blog.
June 9, 2005
Charlene Li / Forrester
May 28, 2005
Verity Stob
Humor columnist Verity Stob, of the former EXE magazine, has brought
her witty, merciless view of software development to Dr. Dobb's Online.
May 22, 2005
dan bricklin
Dan Bricklin: a graybeard of personal computing annotates
conferences and ponders Open Source.
May 20, 2005
Ask Bjoern Hansen
Ask Bjoern Hansen and his notes.
Perl coverage and recent detailed reviews of Mac OS Tiger qualifies
him for my alpha geek blogroll.
May 9, 2005
May 7, 2005
google personal seach history
Google Blog-o-scoped reviews Google's new search history retention
and recall.
May 6, 2005
Ben Hammersley
Ben Hammersley, web-centric technology coverage, presentented with
excellent minimalist page layout.
May 4, 2005
Jon Udell
Jon Udell offers pragmatic computer technology reviews with
can-do examples. A favourite writer since Byte magazine.
At O'Reilly, InforWorld index.
Example recorded actual product demos like this Oxygen XML
editor kill vapourware angst of Dan Bricklin's slideshows.
October 15, 2004
cat slashdot | grep alterslash
alterslash is the thinking man's Slashdot dump.