Content Management: July 2004 Archives
BoingBoing - reports on a UK website TheyyWorkForYou.com it scrapes the UK Parliamentary record and then turns the debates into an easily searched means of keep tabs on your MP -- and to turn your MP's deeds into the basis for discussion and political activism.
My experience with the irlgov.ie website is that we badly need this facility.
Well, now the TheyWorkForYou team have released the source-code for their app under the GPL, and they're also publishing raw XML feeds of their data-sources for you to mix and munge.
Kevin Fox has whipped up a concept sketch for Google functionality as available in 1960.
Factiva chief: Google not a threat CEO of paid search service asserts: "It's a long way before quality information is free."
My PhD research is examining how OO can be used to assist in the design and simulation phase of a product.
So it came as a surprise to me to read that Excel can be used to assist in the same process.
Excel by Example: A Microsoft Excel Cookbook for Electronics Engineers by Aubrey Kagan shows you how you can use the ubiquitous spreadsheet application to model and analyze parts of your design.
Areas of exploration include designing a character generator for dot-matrix displays, exploring resistor combinations, setting up processor registers, handling Bode plots, adjusting counter/timers, and even optimizing power-supply circuits.
Microsoft has given its search service a make-over as part of a big upgrade.
Although still powered by Yahoo technology, it has been "cleaned-up" so paid-for results do not automatically appear when users type in a query.
This means that it will resemble google's less intrusive form of advertising which the general public finds more acceptable.
Due to issues like spam and viruses American Corporations are returning back to the practice of writing letters.
Personally speaking I would pay more attention to a letter than email. Now imagine if you are a company receiving 500 emails plus, which will you read first, the letters in your intray or an email?
So the paperless office (as if we ever had one) may be on the way out.
I have noticed lately when checking my access logs that MSNbot is generating alot of hits to my site. It seems that I am not the only one experiencing this.
It appears that Microsofts search bot is agressively trawling the internet as part of its algorithmic search effort to be included at a future point in its newly revised MSN Search portal.
