Amazon Does It Right
Amazon is one of the few web sites that really has their act together. In the Fall of 1995, I made a presentation to a group of CEOs about the Internet. I showed them various web sites that I was fascinated with at the time, mostly related to engineering, scientific, government and academic projects. The […]
Net Attitude on Kindle
The Kindle is quite an amazing device (see "Kindlized") and I am irrevocably hooked. In addition to buying a growing number of Kindle books, I now have one for sale. Net Attitude continues as a book but I suspect the Kindle version will have the edge going forward. The patrickWeb blog will also soon be […]
Behind on the Blog
A colleague at a board meeting in NY this morning reminded me that I am behind in writing about what I learned in Rome. He is right, I am definitely behind but committed to write the stories previously outlined. So much to do, so little time. e-tirement is challenging!
Technical Update
On infrequent occasions I have something to say about the technical aspects of patrickWeb. Today I made a change that is important to me but will go unnoticed by close to 100% of the people who read this blog. From now on Atom is the protocol I use to publish the index to what I […]
Technical Update
The last few days have been spent developing a new menu system for patrickWeb and trying to streamline the several thousand pages of content to make it easier for visitors to find things. I am making progress, but like many technical projects, it is sometimes one step forward and two steps backwards. I appreciate everyone’s […]