Blogs

Good study of Canadian hockey and how they got to the top on international competitions again. After the weak effort by our Olympic basketball program (yes, it was weak), these are good lessons.

Good post by Jonathan Schwartz on competing against Linux. I agree that Sun is a lot stronger when it can focus on another company. I don’t necessarily agree that Linux has been the primary source of the company’s problems over the last few years. On the other hand it is a big piece of causing the giant business model change that’s underway at Sun…

Interesting post by Jim Moore on the state of the Democratic Party. It matches my impression that the specific Dems we have in front of us right now are consistently running against things or people, not for anything.

Good discussion by Jim Moore of XM Radio’s short-lived PCR capability, and a number of other implementations you can go get.

_ Xeni Jardin: Website that collects photos of fake trees that serve to disguise mobile phone signal towers. Some disguises are more convincing than others. Link (Thanks, Alex) [from Boing Boing Blog] _

Nice tirade by Mark Cuban. The more I read from this guy the more I respect his candor and honest intellectual approach.

Jon Udell on adding metadata tags to posts. Use of both XHTML and del.icio.us. Here’s an interesting follow-up. Finally, he builds on this to consider multi-user information routing.

Great post by Tim Bray about the complexity and range of options for describing dates. Who would’ve guessed?

Simon Phipps summarizes why the increase in data collection is bigger than it looks. I’m not sure I agree with his paradoxical answer, but I’m also hopeful.

Ed Felten givesgood summary of the excitement at Crypto 2004. Some important algorithms have been shown to have some weaknesses, and it seems like it’s a bit a surprise to people. This post tells why the seemingly small breaches are significant.