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Here's the convergence I'm watching: wireless networking, mobile computing devices, and digital identity.
I haven't said anything about digital identity, despite the numerous conversations on this topic in other blogs. (Here for instance.) The basic idea is that internet commerce is being held back because we lack strong digital identities on the web. In other words, there is no way for people on one side of a transaction to be sure who is on the other side.
I've been uninterested in this discussion mainly because I don't care that much about internet commerce. But with the rise of wireless networks I'm starting to see how important this issue will be. And not just for commerce.
"An experiment is under way in Paris that aims to turn the city into one huge Wi-Fi hot spot, making it what could be the first large wireless city in the world."
Hi Carol. Thanks for lunch.
An edited extracted from Thomas Pynchon's introduction to the new Plume (Penguin US) edition of George Orwell's 1984.
Apparently (here and here) the new iPods have an undocumented recording mode. But why is it hidden?
Hot off the press (thanks Chris!): ServerStore, an iTunes 4 internet playlist sharing database.
I also spotted this one recently: iPod tracks -> desktop. I haven't had a chance to test this yet, but apparently it lets you copy tracks from a connected iPod (right from the iPod playlist in iTunes) to your desktop. This would be a big improvement over something like Podmaster which does the same, but has to be run as a cumbersome and slow seperate application.
"Intertwingularity is not generally acknowledged, people keep pretending they can make things deeply hierarchical, categorizable and sequential when they can't. Everything is deeply intertwingled."
Wardriving is the strange (and somewhat unfortunate) name for driving around with an 802.11x wi-fi equipped notebook computer looking for open access points. In a place like Manhattan they are everywhere. If you find one, you might want to engage in a little on the spot documentation with a graffiti language created to tip off fellow searchers: warchalking.
But why limit yourself to just wi-fi? The air is full of all kinds of signals. Check out these do it yourself plans for remotely monitoring wireless video cameras: warspying.
