Posts from — May 2004

White House Throws Its Support Behind a Bill to Overhaul Supercomputing
Programs. The Bush administration has endorsed a bill to revamp the federal government's supercomputing programs. (The Chronicle of Higher Education) [Chronicle.com - The Wired Campus]

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i'm not sure this is worth it, but it is interesting to watch the direction that computer policy is taking and university reaction to it.

Karl Auerbach: ICANN Out of Control. 17 May 2004: “October's distributed, denial-of-service attack against the domain name system–the most serious yet, in which seven of the thirteen DNS roots were cut off from the Internet–put a spotlight on ICANN, the nongovernmental corporation responsible for Internet addressing and DNS. The security of DNS is on ICANN's watch. Why is it so susceptible to attack, when the Internet as a whole is touted as being able to withstand nuclear Armageddon?” Story [RootPrompt -- Nothing but Unix]

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i wish someone would perpetrate another myth other than the nuclear war myth of the internet. it is just a bit old.

Word out.

Marc Canter: At the end of the day – it's not just the code that makes up the standard, but the people who use it.

This is consistent with Things really go boom when Demand gets the power to Supply. That's my current corollary to Cluetrain.

[The Doc Searls Weblog]

Blogging and Cost.

I've been thinking about money and blogging today, in part because so many people are writing about MovableType's pricing.

thanks, ailaina

I can't seem to figure out how much I receive from this weblog. But I can figure out roughly how much I spend — mostly in time. The expense number is large. And I'm quite sure markBernstein.org is profitable.

What has your weblog done for you? This weblog, over the years, has done me lots of favors. It's taken me to San Francisco and to Europe, twice. It's introduced me to lots of interesting people. It's got me to write every day — I know lots of people who pay their workshops and mentors plenty of money to do just that. It's helped me get in touch with some fascinating writers. It's helped people to get started with Tinderbox and with Storyspace, and it's helped them get more out of these tools. It's sold plenty of TEKKA subscriptions.

Thanks, Red!

The evident sourness of the Movable Type community in the face of a small, predictable price increase is dismaying. I say this, even though I work for a competitor.

[Mark Bernstein]

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on one level i can see Mark's point…. on another, i can't. i can't see that moveable type can cost-compete with other more open solutions, and because of that i don't think people should pay. this is not like tinderbox which has no real competition that i can see, and thus can more easily justify its cost as an interesting tool that does much more.

religion, on occasion, breeds a very real ignorance of some very important things in life. for instance, this story on a couple's seeming infertility.

The Association of Higher Education Web Professionals requests abstracts
for its expanded, fifth annual HighEdWebDev conference. Deadline is June
7, 2004. http://www.highedweb.org/2004/abstractreq.html

HighEdWeb and the WebdevShare Programming Committee merge to bring you
the premier national conference for Web professionals in higher
education. We have combined the conference planning experience and
programming excellence of HighEdWeb and WebdevShare to create the
perfect conference.

The conference dates are October 10-13. http://www.highedweb.org/2004/
Mark your calendar.

Go to http://www.highedweb.org/ to find out more about our organization
and sign up for our e-mail discussion list.

Are you evil? find out at Hilowitz.com

IRR Call-Up?. Interesting news that I haven’t seen elsewhere: Army Times: Army screens 118,000 inactive reservists for possible call-up The Army has begun screening members of the… [Outside the Beltway]

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wow…. i don't have any commitments there anymore, mine ended in '98, but this is a bit scary.

How-to guide for international students. This useful site, intended for international students, explains what academics in the USA and Canada expect an essay to look like. But some sections will also be useful for American students themselves. (Via C18-L.)… [The Little Professor]

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handy enough….

Working lives 'must be extended'. Money: Employees need to face up to a longer working life and get realistic about early retirement, a group of economic experts said today. [Guardian Unlimited]

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it is all about population and demographics and those changes, that is why people must work longer.