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DSL deregulation passes House Computerworld | Broadband bill wins House approval: "The legislation would eliminate requirements that incumbents open... February 28, 2002 - 63 words,
Spring fever I’ve been absent for the last few days, but I assure you that I’ll be... February 28, 2002 - 60 words, 1 comment
Application firewalls As companies secure their physical networks with firewalls and strict security policies, hackers are turning... February 25, 2002 - 77 words, 1 comment
Spam of the Day And now the part of our show where I make fun of a random piece... February 23, 2002 - 57 words,
Copy protection loses in court ZDNet | Copy-protected CD makers lose battle: "The companies have agreed to stop tracking personally... February 23, 2002 - 44 words, 2 comments
Who owns music? The recording industry keeps suing online music companies for copyright violation. They have destroyed MP3.com’s... February 23, 2002 - 154 words,
Criminal Customers The recording, television, and motion picture industries are treating their customer base as if they... February 23, 2002 - 421 words, 3 comments
Swordfish One man stabbed another with a swordfish in a drunken brawl.... February 22, 2002 - 11 words,
Customer Care Business 2.0 | Management Lesson #1: Speed Still Matters: "Customers' switching costs have been reduced... February 22, 2002 - 47 words,
Radio Scraper RssDistiller is an easy to use tool for creating scraped feeds from any web site... February 22, 2002 - 21 words,
Freelance Overload R144.com | Freelancers Find Success Accompanied By Longer Hours: "However, another big factor in freelance... February 22, 2002 - 79 words,
AOL Broadband Fool.com | AOL Minds too Narrow for Broadband?: "AOL has indeed made a botch of... February 22, 2002 - 22 words,
Phone Spam Ring. "(Pre-recorded voice) Congratulations, you have been selected to win a free cellular phone. Press... February 22, 2002 - 171 words, 1 comment
Email warning I love lawyers. When I signed up for Safeway’s online shopping service I received an... February 21, 2002 - 186 words, 2 comments
New Trillian Trillian 0.725 is out. This restores AIM compatibility and fixes some bugs.... February 21, 2002 - 12 words, 2 comments
Safeway Delivers Contra Costa Times | Safeway rolls out its online delivery plan: "Safeway on Monday will... February 21, 2002 - 100 words,
Salon's CMS A great look at how Salon handles their publishing using open source software: "We’ll look... February 21, 2002 - 54 words,
Cell shields don't work Mercury News | Feds: Cell Phone Shields Are Bogus: "Some shields touted as protecting cell... February 21, 2002 - 41 words,
Find anything? Looking through the stats for kalsey.com, I find that someone requested 4 pages with WebTrends... February 20, 2002 - 35 words, 3 comments
Movies online FOXNews.com | MGM Testing Online Movie Distribution: "MGM has teamed with CinemaNow Inc., an Internet... February 20, 2002 - 224 words,
Newsletter quality At some point I must have given my email address to Classmates. I don’t remember... February 20, 2002 - 317 words, 4 comments
The Art of Use Cases Software Productivity Center E-ssentials | The Art of Use Cases: "In order to create a... February 20, 2002 - 51 words,
Mergers as an advantage McKinsey Quarterly | Learning from high-tech deals: "For most companies, acquisitions and other transactions are... February 20, 2002 - 55 words,
Requirements Tools StickyMinds also has a list of requirements tools, although many of the tools are more... February 20, 2002 - 21 words,
Bug categorization StickyMinds.com | Categorizing Defects by Eliminating "Severity" and "Priority": "I recommend eliminating the Severity and... February 20, 2002 - 80 words,
Google Ad Auction Mercury News | Google will let Web sites bid for higher rankings in ad listings:... February 20, 2002 - 161 words,
Secure by design The Register | 'Penetrate and patch' e-business security is grim: "Application security flaws introduced early... February 20, 2002 - 50 words,
Death of a Portal From September 2001: Traffick.com | Death of a Portal: Monopoly Money Asks Excite@Home to Go... February 19, 2002 - 42 words,
Be Inc sues Microsoft The Register: "Be Inc is suing Microsoft for the destruction of its business. A damages... February 19, 2002 - 35 words,
Web Rage InformationWeek | Count To 10, Then Read This: "When people get mad at the Internet,... February 19, 2002 - 57 words,
Supreme Court To Hear Copyright Extension Case Wired News | High Court Hears Copyright Case: "In a case initiated by an Internet... February 19, 2002 - 46 words,
Perl Monks RSS Cool. Perl Monks has an RSS feed.... February 19, 2002 - 7 words,
Unintroduction to Web Services webreference.com | What Web Services Are NOT: "While most people are in alignment regarding the... February 19, 2002 - 56 words,
New Job site Mercury News | Big employers band together on recruiting site: "Fed up with paying big... February 18, 2002 - 127 words,
Thumboard Maximum PDA has a review of the Seiko Thumboard. I loved the thumb keyboard on... February 18, 2002 - 25 words,
AOL IM BS washingtonpost.com | Instant Messaging: Tear Down the Walls: "[AOL] consistently says [third-party AIM client] applications... February 18, 2002 - 273 words, 2 comments
Site Refactoring The process of creating a structure for this site is a real-world case study for... February 17, 2002 - 774 words, 4 comments
Measuring Success The Rational Edge | Success Criteria Breed Success: "Ill-defined, unrealistic, or poorly communicated success criteria... February 16, 2002 - 41 words,
Process for one The Rational Edge | A Software Development Process for a Team of One: "Who said... February 16, 2002 - 45 words,
Kick Don’t let anyone tell you that geeks don’t know how to party.... February 16, 2002 - 13 words,
Spam of the Day "Subject: If Your Hotel Rooms Don’t Look Bran New... " It’s important that hotel rooms... February 16, 2002 - 18 words,
Randomness I was perusing the Random Headline feed from Syndic8 and I came across an article... February 15, 2002 - 29 words,
Bug Costs Billion Dollar Bugs: "Your bugs, design flaws, and security holes could cost your customers billions... February 15, 2002 - 46 words,
IA Deliverables Concrete Aspects of Information Architecture: IA tools and approaches: "Two IAs describe the deliverables an... February 15, 2002 - 37 words,
Home fileserver A few weeks ago I read an article on kcgeek about creating a terabyte storage... February 15, 2002 - 64 words,
No Open Access? Washington Post | FCC Proposes Broadband Rules: "If adopted, the [proposed FCC] rules would hand... February 15, 2002 - 53 words,
What Clients Want (part2) winterspeack.com’s Zimran Ahmed disagrees with Joel Spolsky’s article "The solution is not to pander to... February 15, 2002 - 238 words,
Wireless Advantage O'Reilly Network | Easy 802.11b Wireless for Small Businesses: "Now think about how this can... February 15, 2002 - 63 words,
What Clients Want Joel on Software | The Iceberg Secret, Revealed: "Assume that your customers don’t know what... February 15, 2002 - 60 words,
Customer testing The Archives page at ClickZ has an interesting problem. There are duplicate titles listed in... February 13, 2002 - 58 words,
Subject Marketing ClickZ | The Science of Subject Lines: "Over the last few years, I’ve seen marketers... February 13, 2002 - 36 words,
Accessiblity Design Dartmouth’s Web teaching site has a 20 page Word Document describing specific guidelines for creating... February 13, 2002 - 29 words,
Opera Has SmartTags Newsday.com | Opera: Hitting Its Highest Note Yet: "Version 6.0 of Opera for Windows introduces... February 13, 2002 - 45 words,
Gillmor on the PVR lawsuit Dan Gillmor | Entertainment industry’s copyright fight puts consumers in cross hairs: "If the business... February 13, 2002 - 53 words,
Comcast stops tracking washingtonpost.com | Comcast: Will Stop Tracking Users: "Comcast Corp. pledged Wednesday to immediately stop recording... February 13, 2002 - 29 words, 1 comment
Generic Names Advanced Information Solutions Debuts Advanced Practice Management Software for Law Firms: "Advanced Information Solutions, Inc.... February 12, 2002 - 43 words,
Shades of Gray Elegant Hack: gray advice: "Users think a grayed out link is simply a gray link,... February 12, 2002 - 25 words,
The Crime of Sharing New Architect: The Crime of Sharing "Over the last several years, the entertainment industry has... February 12, 2002 - 66 words,
Common Licenses Lawrence Lessig is creating a set of licenses for software developers, artists, and writers to... February 11, 2002 - 84 words,
Criminal Recording MGM, Fox, Universal Studios and Orion Pictures have filed a lawsuit that claims that it’s... February 11, 2002 - 84 words, 1 comment
Ars Digita Crumbles Philip Greenspun’s Ars Digita is gone. A while back he took on some investors and... February 8, 2002 - 120 words,
Streaming Superbowl commercials Watch the Superbowl advertisements online. February 4, 2002 - 28 words,
Scotch vs. Cognac Do scotch and congac taste the same? February 2, 2002 - 44 words,
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