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The View From Here: A Popourri of Things on my Desk
April 1997
Digital snippets litter my virtual desk. Usually I develop one or two items into an article, this month it'll be more of a paella-like mix. Enjoy.
A reader sent the following note to the Sirius staff after one of our community sent out a - how do I say this? - politically charged missive:
May I suggest the following article gives a very poor impression of the Sirius Connection? I feel it may give users an inaccurate impression about the kind of people who use your service, i.e., that they support terrorism and are racists. After Oklahoma I am sure most Americans appreciate the horror of terrorism and are therefore unlikely to share the views of 'rambo', however it makes me very sad to see these ravings on the net and I wish you could persuade 'rambo' to be more moderate...
Just as the telephone companies don't monitor your conversations and break in to lecture on étiquette or to correct factual errors, Internet Service Providers (ISPs) don't - as mandated by law - review or censor your web pages or email. You may be reprimanded if you spam others (see Sirius' usage policy. You just can't judge an ISP by its most annoying subscribers.
Recent Macintosh software of interest:
I stumbled across this while playing with a search engine: interested in improving communication skills required in a strong relationship? Just a pointer, not a recommendation.
Interesting reading: Computer Virus Myths page.
KRON's WeatherCenter 4 now has a nice graphic one-week forecast. If the computer says it then it must be so.
If you use "NewsWatcher" to read USENET news, you'll love the new "Multi-threaded Newswatcher". This is the way things should be done, read and download things at the same time. A must-have.
Tired of all that unsolicited commercial email? Visit Get That Spammer! and spam.abuse.net. May the force be with you.
In addition to my daily visits to "MacSurfer's Headline News" and Dave Winer's DaveNet, I now stop by "Wired News" and "CNN".
The current version of Frontier has "BBEdit" support built in. Finally, you can manage a web site with the source documents on your hard drive (instead of being inside Frontier's Object Database). This is a very good thing. The new synergy is documented at the "BBEdit & Frontier" pages.
"Steve Mann", a researcher at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology ("MIT"), has singlehandedly led the charge for wearable computers. He recently wrote an article entitled Smart Clothing: The Wearable Computer and WearCam. Email from Steve says:
Last week I presented my "shooting back" documentary video at CHI-97 in Atlanta (perhaps the first documentary video shot using "wearable computing" and "personal imaging"), and it was accompanied by a journal article in Personal Technologies, which I have put on the www site (at the risk of being pilloried for copyright violation).
This article emphasizes completely unobtrusive (clothing-based) wearable computing. Unfortunately the original (long and detailed article) I wrote got "butchered" into a light easy-reading article as this was the launch issue of the journal, but it will be followed with a more detailed article (if anyone likes the article that's up there now, and is interested in collaborating on the more detailed article, please let me know).
In particular, I'm in the midst of writing up a paper on my new display glasses and other developments that make it possible to compute unobtrusively (have others looked into this???). I call this mode of computing "eudaemonic computing" in honor of Doyne Farmer and Norm Packard (Eudaemons) who first proposed unobtrusive wearable computing.
steve
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