ETech Day 3 brings more high order bits sessions about emerging technology in the classroom and a comparison of classical ontologies and newfangled folksonomies.

Related link: http://digitalmedia.oreilly.com/2005/02/23/mp3_embed.html After reading my article “Build a Simple MP3 Player for Your Site,” a visitor asked if it were possible to use the technique to create a streaming media player on the fly. It is. The technique in the article simply pops open a window with an embedded media player when someone clicks a special JavaScript link. You...

ETech kicks into high gear with a barrage of short and powerful high order bits talks. Today I'll ponder the ETech theme of Remix while looking at Flickr and Firefox.

Simply naming a set of W3C /OASIS/ IETF recommendations will not produce interoperability.

The recent Slashdot posts about Firefox's trouble to recruit more core developers made me examine the nature of recruiting developers into complex projects. Not surprisingly, its a difficult task!

This week's Most Vexing Website

In the age of always-on broadband, I think that it is time for someone to build a service around live (or pre-recorded) television content. Think about it. Beyond financial programming, there are logical applications around music, news, sports, reality television and educational programming.

W3C char guru new plop victory

A possible software design pattern for bipolar programmers and nasty data with outliers

"Please Google, don't hurt 'em." Let's see if Google's lawyers drop the hammer on this satirical homage.