Archive for December, 2006

Microsoft Live Writer blogging tool endorsement

Having used the Live Writer tool for the last few days, I can definitely endorse it, which marks a pause in my current behavior of replacing Microsoft software with free and open source software as well as non-Microsoft software. I am still a Windows d00d, but that may be more due to my previous incarnation [...]

December 30, 2006 • Posted in: applications • No Comments

Book, your days are numbered…

< p>I’ve been waiting for this since the late 1990s when the early reader hardware was coming out. And while it is not the full package of what I have been envisioning, it is a significant step forward. < p>Sony Reader PRS-500, $350http://www.learningcenter.sony.us/assets/itpd/reader/ The lowdown  < p>1) Small, light, power lasts a long time2) Reading [...]

Test post from Microsoft Live Writer

This is my first post from Live Writer, just to see what it does. It was not able to fully “detect” my WordPress installation for some reason, even though I have it installed at the root of the server directory. After manually giving it the MetaWebLog API address, things seem to be working. I do [...]

December 27, 2006 • Posted in: applications • No Comments

ZeFrank on Studying: Advice for Finals

December 7, 2006 • Posted in: education, humor • No Comments

The Rise of Us: How Organizations can Tap Collective Intelligence

Kevin Lim’s Nov, 2006 talk in Dr. Michael Stefanone’s Organizational Communication class at SUNY Buffalo, on the corporate uses of social media. Presentation is titled “The Rise of Us,” how organizations can tap the collective intelligence of their various publics. In a nice reference on The Chronicles Wired Campus, his talk is given the title [...]

December 4, 2006 • Posted in: web2.0 • No Comments

Windows Vista and Office 2007 Launch: Important?

As announced by Anne over on Web Worker Daily: Windows Vista and Office 2007 have launched. I am a former MCSE who took the first MS Windows95 class in San Francisco (there were six of us attending), and have rolled out NT 4.0, 2000, and XP. I don’t see any difference between the launch of [...]

December 2, 2006 • Posted in: applications, web • No Comments