Granny Cams - CNN is running an article about a movement to put surveillance cameras in nursing homes to protect patients from abuse by staff. Some nursing homes are protesting, saying that it will be harder to hire employees. This begs the question: why would the sort of employees who work at nursing […]
Glass Houses - At Microsoft we have a bunch of servers from which we can watch on-demand recordings of various conferences, presentations, and so on. This makes it convenient to see what things a visiting researcher said, share lessons-learned from major projects, and so on. For example, the Office team has given some […]
Robert Scoble - Speaking of Hailstorm and his Train Simulator Fan Site. “HailStorm is cool (our Train Simulator Fan Site, when it’s up, is very cool and is free) but there are some horrendous risks with a centralized system. Today I’m living in a HailStorm nightmare. It’s a free nightmare, but a nightmare nonetheless. If […]
But still signifyin’ - Now the opinions about Hailstorm are flying. The whole discussion of “secret APIs” is particularly funny. I remember about two years ago, my brother and I decided we wanted to use the MSN Messenger protocol for P2P communications. It took us about 40 minutes to look through the […]
No Money in Signifyin’ - Today the Mercury News announced that they would be laying off people, and the Editor resigned in emotional protest. Said some employees of the layoffs, “They will wreck the newsroom and ruin the paper’s ability to cover the community”. Perhaps to find company in misery, the Mercury is […]