Monday, April 08, 2002

IBM unwraps new WebShpere Portal series [IDG InfoWorld] With a ship date of May it must look like a mummy : +)   10:51:06 PM

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I stumbled on a nice service that monitors domains that are registered that you have an interest in.  The first 10 domains it monitors are free and you can pay for it to "stand in line" for you and register if a domain comes available.  Nice service... http://www.snapnames.com/index.jsp   7:47:55 PM

I was thinking about these weblogs and comparing the experience to some personalized newspaper ideas the folks at MIT had back in the early days of internet publishing, circa 1973.  Back then the idea was to allow the "front-page" of the site to be a complilation of a  community of subscribers to a large news feed.  The subscribers would promote a news story and it's rank on the site would be relative to the number of users that selected that story.  It also allowed for comments and discussions about that story.  It seems very similar to the experience of BLogs/Weblogs....it was engaging and collaborative and provided for more expression than the editorial page of the daily newspaper.  You can read more about this idea and experience here:  http://fishwrap-people.www.media.mit.edu It's kind of a shame that more newspapers didn't adopt the fishwrap model with their internet publishing model.  I think they are waaaay too late now.  This weblog technology wroks...............   7:45:49 PM

Ameritrade to buy Datek [IDG InfoWorld]   I was looking at both of these for online trading.  Does it make the choices easier? 7:21:52 PM

The storyboard tool we've been looking for?  TR describing the work. [Eric Freeman's Radio Weblog] A part of the software collaborative process... 7:19:32 PM