Robin Good Archive Of Latest News
November 2004

Where Are The Warriors?   The change-agent information warriors the title refers to are those individuals who have taken on the challenging opportunity of becoming independent news reporters, online information watchdogs for what mainstream media is forgetting to cover every minute. Some good steam is coming out of the Communication Agents Initiative,... read more | cat.: | Link | Comment Robin Good -- November 30

Synchronized Browsing: Kolabora Reports   What are 'Web Touring and Co-browsing' and why are they so important to a real-time conferencing or collaboration system? Can you sell screen-sharing for Co-browsing, Web-Touring? Is it the same thing? What are the true advantages of Co-browsing over other solutions? If you have been following my work on... read more | cat.: | Link Robin Good - Kolabora -- November 30

Cooperation Is Better Than Conflict   Thanks to a message forwarded the Cifranogy discussion group , I have just learned about a fascinating cooperative working model that brings together many of the traits we, freedom thinkers and independent agents feel so close to. Photo credit: Tom Coates The system, originated by a... read more | cat.: | Link Robin Good -- November 29

No-face Marketing Drowns Web Conferencing News Marketplace   Here is an industry, dynamic, fast growing and exciting with new tools and technologies showing up on my radar on a weekly basis now, but with no real voices, personalities and character, as the audiences they are targeting would be expecting to find. Photo credit: Davide Guglielmo The... read more | cat.: | Link Robin Good - Kolabora -- November 29

Taking Back Our Decision-Making Power: Sociocracy   Thanks to a message forwarded through the Participatory Society discussion group Cifranogy, I have just learned about a fascinating cooperative working model that brings together many of the traits we, freedom thinkers and independent agents feel so close to. Photo credit: Tom Coates The system, originated... read more | cat.: | Link | Comment Robin Good -- November 29

Summary Of The World: Googlezon And The Newsmasters EPIC   By the year 2014, what I call newsmasters will be the most sought-after and highly rewarded professional media creators the world has ever seen. Newsmasters are an emerging group of news editors which utilize new tools and techniques to create unique content streams on specialized topics by... read more | cat.: | Link | Comment Robin Good - Robin Sloan - Museum of Media History -- November 29

Do You Win By Being BIG, Or Do You Win By Being Good?   In his latest Alertbox issue, entitled "Undoing the Industrial Revolution", usability guru Jakob Nielsen, goes out of his familar path and puts out what maybe one of the most important public statements I have ever read from him in nearly 20 years of close readership. Jakob Nielsen His... read more | cat.: | Link | Comment Robin Good - Jakob Nielsen - Alertbox -- November 28

Microsoft To Patent Instructional Feedback To User Responses   As reported by Slashdot contributor "timothy", Microsoft has been seeking a patent for early childhood education that focuses around the ability for a system to provide appropriate feedback to an unstructured user response. More precisely, the Microsoft invention, is a system and method for accepting unstructured input... read more | cat.: | Link | Comment Robin Good - via Slashdot -- November 28

Holy Hiroshima! Doctor's Weapon Of Individual Destruction: Full Body CT   Yesterday issue of the What Doctors Don't Tell You newsletter reports that official scientific medical research shows how anyone undergoing a full body CT (computer tomography) is being exposed to a radiation level equivalent to that from the atomic bomb dropped on Hiroshima. Photo credit: FDA Whole... read more | cat.: | Link | Comment WDDTY -- November 27

Quiet Encoding: How Your Laser Printer Manufacturer Has Embedded An ID Code On Every Page You Print   Every page printed with a laser printer contains unique markings that may be traced back directly to the exact laser printing unit that was used to create the page. This discovery has spawned interesting ideas for applications, especially in forensics, but also raises concerns about the... read more | cat.: | Link | Comment Marjolein Hoekstra -- November 27

Open Access Directory Of RSS News Feeds: Who Is For It?   There is a lot of untapped potential around the intelligent use of RSS syndicated content, and I have extensively pointed out some of the possible directions this may take us to. Photo credit: Robin Good It is important to acknowledge though the issue of free content re-use when... read more | cat.: | Link | Comment Robin Good -- November 26

Cheaper Than Skype: Babble   Babble is a new broadband internet telephony (VoIP) service from the UK's BON.net that offers free PC to fixed/landline telephone calls across Europe, mainland North America, Australia and New Zealand. Calls between Babble users anywhere in the world are also free and users can also instant... read more | cat.: | Link | Comment Robin Good -- November 26

Self-Directed Learning Is Good For Both Society And The Individual   "Cyberspace does not belong to any single group and, because it is simultaneously everywhere and nowhere, it does not lend itself to conventional terrestrial legal mechanisms. Nevertheless, it is vital to create a sense of trust in the technology for learning purposes, and to protect the... read more | cat.: | Link | Comment Philip C Candy - via Stephen Downes -- November 25

Use Any Surface As Interface: Sensitive Object   Imagine any flat rigid surface becoming the potential interface to any computer software, home appliance or live communication system you have access to. That is what a French start up company has already started delivering with a new technology appropriately called Sensitive Object, . "The Sensitive Object... read more | cat.: | Link Robin Good - [via Technocrat.net] -- November 25

Receptive Presence Awareness Equals On-Demand Availability   'Presence' awareness has rapidly become one of the most compelling features of Instant Messaging (IM) applications. Never before in the history of communications have we been able to tell whether the person we want to communicate with can actually be reached before we try to engage... read more | cat.: | Link | Comment Robin Good - ACM Queue -- November 24

Distinctive Icons Provide Desktop Scenery And Enhanced Navigation: VisualID   When you're looking for a particular folder or file on your computer, some people will prefer to identify it using graphical icons, whilst others will prefer to use the textual descriptor. For example, with Windows Explorer in Windows XP, you have the option to view the... read more | cat.: | Link | Comment Robin Good - Technology Research News -- November 23

Ads Inside RSS: Good's Advice   Staci Kramer from PaidContent.org reports: "While some of us are wondering how best to use ads in RSS feeds, IT Garage proprietor Doc Searls asked "How long before somebody designs an RSS newsreader that blocks ads in RSS feeds?" He quickly got a reply from someone... read more | cat.: | Link | Comment Robin Good - PaidContent.org -- November 23

RSS Newsfeeds, MP3 And Podcasting: Will The BBC Take Them All Mainstream?   The recent news that the BBC is experimenting at the bleeding edge of the new media technology world, with podcasting, probably shouldn't come as too much of a surprise. They have been experimenting with the newest of new media technologies for some time. The BBC was one... read more | cat.: | Link | Comment Robin Good -- November 22

Ten Technologies That Are Going To Change The Way We Learn   As I wanted to make my small contribution to the Global Learn Day event which is taking place online at this very time (PC Windows users log in here), I just thought of making my own little presentation (with no slides ::: just my talking head)... read more | cat.: | Link | Comment Robin Good -- November 21

Global Learn Day: GLD8 Educational Technologists Talk Online   The grassroots online audio-based conference showcasing live, educational technologists, futurists, and pedagogical e-learning evangelists from all around the world is about to start today for a 24-hour non-stop show: This is Global Learn Day, and it starts today. Organized by the Benjamin Franklin Institute, this event... read more | cat.: | Link Robin Good -- November 20

Voice-Call Anyone By Clicking In Outlook: Mighty Microsoft May Just Do It   Microsoft strategy for expansion in the real-time collaboration market is about to become reality as in the coming months the company will be releasing a new version of their Live Communication Server and a new corporate instant messenger (code-named Istanbul) that will have full interoperability with... read more | cat.: | Link | Comment Robin Good - Business 2.0 -- November 20

Choosing Web Conferencing Tools: Can You Trust Online Live Demonstrations?   If you're looking for a reliable, stable and trustworthy supplier of web conferencing and/or online presentation tools, you're not going to be able to gain a very clear picture simply by reading prospective vendors' marketing brochures, touring their corporate websites or by being forced to listen... read more | cat.: | Link | Comment Robin Good -- November 19

Have A Good Idea? Global Ideas Bank Is Waiting For You   All of us have great ideas from time to time. Most often, those bright sparks extinguish quickly, usually because a great idea unshared is nothing more than that - a great idea. But if you have a great idea that you'd like as many people as... read more | cat.: | Link | Comment Robin Good -- November 19

The Scholarly Search Engine: Google Scholar   Web search leader Google on Wednesday unveiled Google Scholar, a new search product aimed at helping users search scholarly literature such as technical reports, theses and abstracts. Google Scholar enables you to search specifically for scholarly literature, including peer-reviewed papers, theses, books, preprints, abstracts and technical... read more | cat.: | Link | Comment Robin Good -- November 18

Accessorize Your Blog: Get a Blox   Are you thinking that your blogsite could do with a bit of a makeover? Want to do something to it that will make it stand out more from the increasingly crowded blogosphere? Perhaps add a few bells and whistles? Then help may be at hand. Blogbox provides free,... read more | cat.: | Link | Comment Robin Good -- November 18

Global Grassroots Content Clearinghouse: Ourmedia   A free public archive for everyone to upload and share their personal content, be it text, audio, music or video, is about to become reality. Its goal is the one to enable producers of grassroots media to store and share their work with the world. Without... read more | cat.: | Link | Comment Robin Good - via Stephen Downes -- November 17

Instant Messaging Graduates To Full Real-Time Collaboration: Trillian 3 Shows The Way   According to a sneak preview page on Cerulean Studios' Trillian website, the soon to be released Version 3 of the Trillian instant messaging application will incorporate a wide range of new features, including integration with the Wikipedia online encyclopedia, as well as real-time video and audio... read more | cat.: | Link | Comment Robin Good -- November 17

Form Vs Function: Why You Should Not Separate Usability From Web Design   When you design a Web site should you design first for being functionally effective or you should design first for achieving aesthetic balance? Ben Hunt, the Web Doctor, has just published an early excerpt from the introduction to his forthcoming book "Web Design from Scratch - the... read more | cat.: | Link | Comment Robin Good - WebDesingFromScratch -- November 16

Watch Out: Are Blogs Under Patriot Act FBI Powers?   Ominous indeed: are blogs really under Patriot Act FBI powers? (Image credit: Davide Guglielmo, Italy) An article in the Village Voice highlights a win for American values and liberty as a particularly heinous part of the Patriot Act has been struck down by a Federal District Judge.... read more | cat.: | Link | Comment Village Voice - [via ItAffectsYou.org] -- November 16

Search Engines And Paid Placement   How obvious is it to you when using a search engine that the results you are getting are what you should be getting? Are you aware that some of the results are actually paid for by advertisers? In other words, a company will pay the search... read more | cat.: | Link | Comment Jørgen J. Wouters - Consumer WebWatch -- November 15

Search Engines Wars: Google Competition Heats Up   "As Microsoft enters the internet search engine market, users find themselves overwhelmed with options." This is how the BBC opens up a timely article focusing its spotlight on Microsoft official entry into the new search engine competition against the established major players. Here is the new... read more | cat.: | Link | Comment Robin Good - Tom Geoghegan BBC -- November 15

Becoming A Socially-Valuable Online Entrepreneur One Post At A Time   Do you want to be come an online entrepreneur, a small independent and sustainable publisher on the topic(s) that reflect your true interests and passions? Flemming Flunch's Escape Velocity is a new blog out there that has just started laying out the right questions, the possible routes... read more | cat.: | Link | Comment Robin Good - Escape Velocity -- November 14

Why Use Computer Games For Learning?   The debate has long been raging, with the traditionalists having always a highly skeptical judgment on such an educational approach, and only a few brave open-minded scholars taking the gaming matter with courage to the class. Alice Mitchell and Carol Savill-Smith of LSDA in the UK come... read more | cat.: | Link | Comment Alice Mitchell and Carol Savill-Smith - LSDA -- November 13

Information You Can Trust: Librarians' Index To The Internet   Surfing the World Wide Web can be both an enthralling, enlightening journey of discovery as well as a nightmarish trip into darkness and confusion. If you're searching for information from specific sites, ones that you know and trust because you've been there before and found what you... read more | cat.: | Link | Comment Robin Good -- November 12

How To Clean A Compromised, Corrupted, Infected Or Hacked-Into Computer System: Wipe It Clean?   "A healthy infusion of paranoia tends to be remarkably useful when protecting networks. One of the worst mistakes a security administrator can make is to assume everything is OK." You all know well that the possibility of a hacker intruding in your organization system have not... read more | cat.: | Link | Comment Jesper Johansson - [via Steven Bink] -- November 12

Intellectual Property, Copyright And The Free Culture Movement: Action Is All We Need   While the Creative Commons (CC) and the Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) are doing a hell of a great job in trying to counterbalance the restrictive actions imposed and brought forward by the music and movie industries, very few young people are following or are even aware... read more | cat.: | Link | Comment Robin Good - Wired News -- November 12

Identity Theft: It's So Inconvenient   Online identity theft is a rapidly growing global phenomenon, with banks and online retailers struggling to keep on top of the problem. But it’s not surprising that identity theft has been growing so quickly. According to a recent report published in the US by the International... read more | cat.: | Link | Comment Robin Good -- November 11

The New MSN Search Engine (Beta) Is Now Live   Nonetheless I am part of the Microsoft Search Champs, a selected group of technology enthusiasts helping Microsoft refine and improve its up-and-coming new search engine, I have been reading news proclaiming Microsoft release of the new technology since early yesterday. While by this morning the news... read more | cat.: | Link | Comment Robin Good -- November 11

Fake URLs - Real Web Pages Can Be Completely Fake: Watch Out For The The Latest Web Threat   According to a PR story released yesterday by SurfControl plc, Internet outlaws, have been able to hack two Australian banks (Citibank and SunTrust). By taking control of a security hole in those Web sites search facility, the "phishers" were able to substitute fake (but perfectly looking)... read more | cat.: | Link | Comment Robin Good -- November 10

Increase Visibility in Blog and RSS Directories: XML-RPC Pings   Robin's article, RSSTop55 - Best Blog Directory and RSS Submission Sites, shows you how to submit your RSS feed to many different blog and RSS directories. If you're a blogger, your blogging software may have a feature that makes it easy and quick to notify directories... read more | cat.: | Link | Comment Robin Good -- November 10

Free Music Sharing And Audio Distribution Via The Commons: CC Publisher   The Creative Commons has just release a new revolutionary, free killer app that allows individuals to upload, CC tag and share their audio recordings to the Internet at large via the Internet Archive, while keeping some of their rights fully intact. CC Publisher is indeed a revolutionary... read more | cat.: | Link | Comment Robin Good - [via Joi Ito] -- November 9

From Flash-Mob To Mo-Club   The Hard Dance London, an online site following the trendy London dance scene, reported this past Saturday: "On Waterloo Station a middle aged lady with handbag in one hand and mobile phone in the other looks down for a second and stares in bemusement at two young... read more | cat.: | Link | Comment Robin Good -- November 9

Choose Ads For Your Feeds: Pheedo Launches SimpleAd Server   If, as an RSS newsmaster, you've been struggling to find ways to earn an income from your uniquely crafted content feeds, then life may have started to get slightly easier. Pheedo has just announced the launch of an advertising management tool that will allow you to insert... read more | cat.: | Link | Comment Robin Good -- November 8

The Corporate RSS NewsMaster: The Information Advisor Reports   In the June edition of the Knowledge Management quarterly supplement to the Information Advisor electronic magazine, chief editor Robert Berkman interviewed me on the emerging role of the RSS newsmaster and of its relevance within the corporate information management community. As the article was published in... read more | cat.: | Link | Comment Robert Berkman -- November 8

Microsoft Claims Ownership Of The Internet   According to an article by eWeek dated Friday Nov. 5th 2004, Microsoft appears to be claiming intellectual property rights on over 130 Internet protocols that make up the very core of the Internet infrastructure. These protocols include for example TCP/IP and the DNS system. The story emerged... read more | cat.: | Link | Comment eWeek - [via Slashdot] -- November 8

Where Can Skype Improve?   There is indeed a lot of public praise around Skype and most of this is truly well deserved. Skype is such a uniquely effective real-time communication tool that it has indeed deserved the greatest part of the great reviews, written compliments and public commentary it has... read more | cat.: | Link Robin Good -- November 7

Online Privacy Tools: An EPIC Resource   EPIC, the Electronic Privacy Information Center, is a public interest research center based in Washington, D.C. It was established in 1994 "to focus public attention on emerging civil liberties issues and to protect privacy, the First Amendment, and constitutional values". In the course of their good work,... read more | cat.: | Link | Comment Robin Good -- November 7

Most Popular Words And Images In The News: 10x10   10x10 is a new visualization tool which showcases the top 100 words in the news and the 100 photos associated to them. The results is a dynamic dashboard that displays in one screen a mosaic of the key news images for that very hour next to... read more | cat.: | Link Robin Good Recommends -- November 7

Social Network Marketing May Help Turn Customers Into Brand Advocates: Popstick Outburst   POPstick is a Boston-based new media communication agency that utilizes digital technology to build creative solutions for new marketing opportunities and challenges. I picked up POPstick newest idea, POPstick Outburst, because nonetheless its very corporate and impersonal communication strategy (quite at the opposite of very model... read more | cat.: | Link | Comment Robin Good -- November 6

BBC Launches Web Translation Tool   The New Media department at BBC Wales had developed an online program that enables anyone reading a Welsh language website to get an instant translation into English, without having to leave the page to access an online dictionary. The tool, named Vocab, uses a database of 22,000... read more | cat.: | Link | Comment Robin Good -- November 5

Can I Publish Your Content In RSS?   ConferencingNews.com publisher John Rourke has written me to manifest his dismay caused by my having announced the creation of a free RSS newsfeed for the aggregated news headlines published on ConferencingNews.com home page. In a public comment to my post informing readers about the availability of these... read more | cat.: | Link | Comment Robin Good -- November 5

Sketch Out That Idea Online - Together   Imagination Cubed is an amazing, free online communication tool developed by General Electric (GE) as part of its global marketing campaign, Imagination at Work. For many people, the easiest way to explain a complex idea to someone else is to pick up a pad and pencil... read more | cat.: | Link | Comment Robin Good -- November 4

PR-Speak And The New Media Press: Your Lips Are Moving But I'm Not Hearing You   Yesterday I had a demo of a technology I had heard about but had never really tested. The PR agency, taking care of the company in question, had very gently setup a meeting time, and a conferencing space online (powered by Live Meeting) where this showcase... read more | cat.: | Link | Comment Robin Good -- November 4

Analyst Blogs Versus Investment Bank Research   Traditionally, investors, investment managers and fund managers had relied on advice from industry and company analysts at investment banks and stockbrokers to make sound investment decisions. Then, as high-profile corporate scandals (Enron, Tyco etc) rocked financial markets after the internet bust, the ensuing collapse of share... read more | cat.: | Link | Comment Robin Good -- November 3

Robin Good On RSS NewsMastering   "The renaissance man for independent publishing on the Internet. " I must thank Tom Parish for his kind words. He has done a wonderful job of making me comfortable in explaining, for the first time in a more detailed and pragmatical way, what RSS newsmastering is... read more | cat.: | Link | Comment Tom Parish -- November 3

Mac OS X Reported Safest Computing Environment   As originally reported this morning by Slashdot.org: "The British security firm mi2g has concluded a comprehensive 12-month study to identify the safest 24/7 computing environment. In the end, the open source BSD and Mac OS X came out on top with the fewest security breaches against... read more | cat.: | Link | Comment Robin Good - Slashdot.org - mi2g -- November 3

Want Some Attention? Tell Your Readers To Go Away!   The evidence is clear. Want some attention? Tell your readers to go away. Robert Scoble has again a great essay that strikes right at the center some of the most ingrained online marketing and promotion myths: You Need To Keep People On Your Site. Nothing could be further... read more | cat.: | Link | Comment Robert Scoble -- November 3

Search Engine Optimization With RSS News Feeds   RSS can be a powerful digital weapon in increasing your exposure, visibility and ranking inside major search engines. If appropriately used, RSS can dramatically increase your ability to be indexed on a day to day basis by Google and other major search engines. The strategic keywords in... read more | cat.: | Link | Comment Robin Good Recommends -- November 2

iPod: No Thanks, Maybe iRiver   iPod users read this: "If you buy into a proprietary platform where the music industry gets a veto, you're screwed. Every time you buy an iPod, you are financing legal and technical countermeasures aimed at taking away legitimate features that enable you to do more with your... read more | cat.: | Link | Comment Robin Good - [via Boing Boing] -- November 2

Branding Is Not Dead: It's A Conversation   Robert Scoble has got some great thoughts out on the issue of branding and the adoption of blogs by corporate executives and established businesses. While he tries to pull out specific points relating to how effective blogging can be for major brands, including Microsoft which pays... read more | cat.: | Link | Comment Robert Scoble -- November 1

Portable Podcasting: Edirol R1 Records WAVs And MP3s On The Go   Podcasting is the emerging smarter on-demand broadcasting paradigm emerging from the blogosphere. How do you do it? You simply make an audio recording of an interview, a new track you are working on, a radio show you want to broadcast on the Internet and then you... read more | cat.: | Link | Comment Robin Good Recommends -- November 1

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