Schools Open Up to Single Sign-On. This is based on a very sensible solution which passes “he’s allowed to see financial stuff” type messages around, rather than passwords. I wonder what it does to Government Connect?
Archive for September, 2005
Whitehall Efficiency Targets a ‘Distraction’. Apparently the centre hasn’t explained what’s going on effectively enough. Over to you, Sue?
The State of Project Management has some nice one-liners: I liked this one
The “90/90 Rule” of project schedules goes like this: the first 90 percent of a project takes 90 percent of the time and effort; the remaining 10 percent of the project takes the other 90 percent of the time and effort.
Ian’s Shoelace Site shows how to tie a more even wearing knot, and faster too. Gotta love it.
Direct mail frameworks for government should help e-government take-up. Wow. I hadn’t expected that!
Ribbit Films sells Chroma Key Stock Footage. Neat idea: you can buy real film clips to add to any location / shots that you choose. Think of this like stock photography and then Photoshop for video.
Zimbra, an AJAX (Asynchronous Javascript And XML) collaboration tool is pretty impressive. Would it be right for work? Not as we’ve got Small Business Server. But it would be good to run something like this to share schedules for Caroline and I.
Esquire wikis article on Wikipedia. Nice idea - get people to edit the article online, then buy the hard copy to show that they were part of it. And you get a quality article out of it as well.
Ray Kurzweil is always worth a read. I should just be alive (if a little augmented) by the time the singularity hits.
Chatty Tom. It’s nice to be recognised as a bear (scroll down).
In a beautiful irony, the National Do Not Call Registry carried out a random phone survey of people who had signed up to see whether they were getting fewer calls now. Can you imagine the ethical dilemma? How did they manage to get through (I just ignore most phone calls)?
The Wikitosh has MustHaveSoftware. I have a surprising number of these already. There are more examples here.
� The Web-based Office will have its day says ZDNet. It could work, but it is such a pain when you don’t have access to the net. Roll on fully-connected access.
The Power of Default Values is such that we’re more likely to click on the top link in Google even if a stealth program is swapping the top two links over without us knowing. So some of us read the results, and some of us don’t.
Religious Affairs Takes To E-Government. Nice that we don’t live in a religious state.
(And for us, I guess). Local authorities are not going to meet one technically-specific piece of their Priority Service Outcome targets (but that doesn’t really stop them meeting their esd targets). They are, on the other hand, going to start using shared services in a serious way.
Babble uses sound cancellation-like technology to cancel out voices in its range. The core application is for noisy offices / private phone calls. I wonder how far we can go with digital real-time processing of our environments (think Bond’s invisible Aston Martin, shaped point-to-point communications in the office wihtout distracting otehr people (like a stage whisper, maybe?).
Vending taken to new heights - Catch your own dinner for $2 a try. Not as much fun as getting Christian to negotiate a serious platter.
600 barrels of loot found on Crusoe island tells the hopefully true story of a massive treasure hoard. Brilliant that this sort of thing is still possible. Let’s hope there are some more undiscovered cities in South America as well as some undersea ones off the coast of various continents.
Nice to see that mainstream journalists report on predicting from Darwin. There’s a question in my mind as to whether we can really lay this prediction at Darwin’s door, but nevertheless, it’s useful to have ammunition.
