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• Garrick’s Wireless Cities Presentation Here’s a first pass at my presentation for next week’s Wireless Cities conference. Even though I didn’t include my notes, I think the idea comes across in the slides. I’m looking for your thoughts and comments - that’s why I uploaded it days before the talk. Garrick-WirelessCities-Presentation.pdf [5mb]
• What To Do with 10 Sears Ads? Sunday Star Tribune seemed a little heavy for a boring, post-holiday, January weekend. As I culled out the handful of things I actually care about; comics big box electronics ads “signature” - maybe there’s something interesting this week “money + business” - maybe there’s something interesting this week the Satellite radio article in “arts & entertainment” - complete fluff piece.
• Wanted: More Publishers and Better Filters David Newberger and I were talking about information filtering models and much of the thinking behind Feedseeder came though as did a couple much larger issues. The conversation was so good, I thought you’d enjoy it as well. David: I was talking with a few people today and each one mentioned Information Overload in the seperate
• I’m trying to find the online version of… I’m trying to find the online version of an article in Today’s PiPress. This is really hard. Searching for the author’s name doesn’t work. Copying the headline from the PDF version of the front page and pasting it into search doesn’t work. Found it. I Googled for the headline, the only result - Chuck’s posting of the
• What I Read in the Sunday Paper - Sept 11, 2005 I started ignoring the Star Tribune’s OpEx section almost immediately after we signed up for the Sunday home delivery. I was expecting well thought through logical arguments rather than the ‘look-a-shiny-thing-that-supports-my-position’ ignorance so popular on television “news”. But, like I said, I don’t read it. Today, I started reading the headline. Half way into the article,