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This is what has me…

This is what has me really annoyed lately. Bill Moyers isn’t wearing the flag because he’s for America, he’s supporting our troops, or because he’s in favor of anything. He’s wearing the flag because he’s against the President. Too many people’s expression of their patriotism is to excercise their right to free speech and tell us all what’s wrong - too few of these people are doing something constructive to try to make things better.

Cameron Barrett's Freedoms:…

Cameron Barrett’s Freedoms: A response to his Blog against America As with any American citizen, Cameron Barrett has significant rights and freedoms: He has the freedom to take extended vacations in Russia. This is a particularly hard-won freedom as we stood alone against a string of communist Soviet dictators in an epic, and sometimes dangerous power struggle lasting more than four decades. During this time we prevented the spread of the repressionist Soviet state and ultimtately freed the country’s citizens along with the nations who were effectively annexed by the Soviets at the end of WWII.

Another Cyblog candidate is Tim…

Another Cyblog candidate is Tim Bray’s access log. Imagine first blogging everything, then over time applying filters of ‘interesting’ entries, so that the signal-noise ratio got better and better over time.

This week I was at…

This week I was at the Auto-ID Center get together in Atlanta, and it finally spurred me to write my note about weblogs based on streams of data. I think it’s a trend - let me know what you think!

Notes from Mike Eskew talk…

Notes from Mike Eskew talk at AutoID (CEO of Mike Eskew): 13 Million packages delivered/day 1997 600K packages tracked and verified at $2/query 2002 10M packages tracked, none on phone, 2 cents/query up to 99% reliable, didn’t think they could get there, but latest round of technology got them there Information rich packages that sort themselves - helped them build their new distribution center in Louisville