Monthly Archives: July 2004

Why we know…

By Oliver Wrede | Published: July 31, 2004

Just for the record: Why We Know Iraq Is Lying (by Condolezza Rice, Jan. 23rd 2003)

Outage explained

By Oliver Wrede | Published: July 26, 2004

My ISP moved his server farm from town to town today. During transfer the servers were not available. There also was an update in the domain name system – so even after the machines came back online after many hours, there are still problems with DNS pointing to the old IP number.

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2D interface for spacial design

By Oliver Wrede | Published: July 21, 2004

One of the most challenging issues for software user interface design is to provide a 2D surface to a 3D design space. SketchUp is some kind of sketching tool that seems to be full of ideas of how to solve this problem (at least it appears to be from the training videos).

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Internet hypes

By Oliver Wrede | Published: July 18, 2004

I started working on a list of Internet hypes. Do you remember any Internet hypes? Please add yours to the Wiki page.

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Enterprise knowledge management with weblogs

By Oliver Wrede | Published: July 17, 2004

Michael Angeles (UrlGreyHot.com) has published a presentation called “Supporting enterprise knowledge management with weblogs: A weblog services roadmap”. (Slides [4.6 MB PDF], Slides with notes [4.6 MB PDF]). It was presented at the Computers in Libraries 2004 conference in Washington: My talk proposed a roadmap for providing weblog-related information services and suggested approaches for dealing [...]

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English or not

By Oliver Wrede | Published: July 17, 2004

I ask myself if native English speakers ever wonder that it costs non-native speakers quite some effort to run an english weblog. Peter Baumgartner just posted some thoughts about this. He would prefer to write in German only because most of his readers seem to be German speaking. I also run a german weblog that [...]

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Deutsche Bank Research against software patents

By Oliver Wrede | Published: July 16, 2004

DB Research has issued a paper that claims software patents block innovation: A growing number of R&D-intensive businesses realises that licencing out their IP (intellectual property) can constitute a substantial share or their revenues, which in turn encourages innovation efforts. Bearing this in mind, one could be tempted to consider ever stricter IP protection regimes [...]

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Bogus patents

By Oliver Wrede | Published: July 13, 2004

What if you invent a web site creation and maintenance system that permits distributed control and centralized management of a web site? What if the physical implementation of the web site resides on a database maintained by a database administratorand the web site system permits a site administrator to construct the overall structure, design and [...]

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MP3 blogs

By Oliver Wrede | Published: July 12, 2004

Many independ music composers circumvent the labels completely. But publishing their music online is just one part. They need to become a hot tip also. And there are many that help by running weblogs about this music and that link to the MP3 files and videos of these artists. There are some examples collected in [...]

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Groovy hen & egg

By Oliver Wrede | Published: July 12, 2004

Groove Networks released version 3.0 of its application suite. Unfortunatly it only runs on Windows. Concerning the Mac version their FAQ says Right now, the vast majority of our customer and prospect base is Windows based. No wonder. When there is no version for Mac available there will be no Mac customers. But the issue [...]

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Outfoxed

By Oliver Wrede | Published: July 11, 2004

When I was in New York on 9/11/2001 I was stunned by the news program FoxNews. US people know that program: I didn’t at that time. The only US program we see here is CNN Europe (which is very different from the US as I learned that time). Now it seems (some) Americans start to [...]

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The cognitive style of parallel writing

By Oliver Wrede | Published: July 9, 2004

Stephanie Booth is reflecting on the experiment with writing a summary of a conference session as a group in SubEthaEdit (which allows users connected to one host to write together on a single text file; it looks like this -each user has a seperate color- and when finished the result can be published on a [...]

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GMail invitations left

By Oliver Wrede | Published: July 9, 2004

I have some GMail invitations left. Comment if you want to have one (by clicking on the date above).

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Top ten truly obscure but useful Java projects

By Oliver Wrede | Published: July 9, 2004

In response to the top ten obscure java projects list someone (who does not have an about page) replies with an obscure but useful list. I like this a lot – there aree so many gems hidden on the net that deserve more attention.

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Notebook conferences

By Oliver Wrede | Published: July 6, 2004

I remember when there was a discussion about “Notebook universities” in and around some universities in my area. They were supposed to conceptualize how they would utilize notebooks. These concepts were evaluated to decide which universities get funding for WLAN and Laptop equipment. If I remember correctly the concepts were usually not very inspired. Few [...]

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