--- title: links for 2007-09-13 date: 2007-09-13T05:25:38Z modified: 2007-09-13T05:25:38Z permalink: "https://redmonk.com/sogrady/2007/09/12/links-for-2007-09-13/" type: post status: publish excerpt: "" wpid: 1748 categories: - Links timestamp: 2007-09-13T05:25:38Z tags: - Links --- - [Top 100 Tech Blogs: the Datamation List](http://itmanagement.earthweb.com/cnews/article.php/12035_3696546_2) august company, indeed; big thanks to James for making his list. you’re invited to my next local party, sir 😉 (tags: [redmonk](http://del.icio.us/sogrady/redmonk) [lists](http://del.icio.us/sogrady/lists) [top100](http://del.icio.us/sogrady/top100) [datamation](http://del.icio.us/sogrady/datamation)) - [Discovery Channel :: News – Health :: WHO: Disease Rates to Rise With Temps](http://dsc.discovery.com/news/2007/09/11/disease_hea.html?category=health) yet another example of why i hate the heat: it’s a killer (tags: [heat](http://del.icio.us/sogrady/heat) [climatechange](http://del.icio.us/sogrady/climatechange) [globalwarming](http://del.icio.us/sogrady/globalwarming) [climate](http://del.icio.us/sogrady/climate) [patterns](http://del.icio.us/sogrady/patterns)) - [“Meet the Open Source Industry” Roadshow 2007](http://perkypants.org/blog/2007/09/13/meet-the-open-source-industry-roadshow-2007/) Waugh Partners open source roadshow – sounds excellent. if you’re in Australia, and are interested in open source, seriously, how can you not go? (tags: [waughpartners](http://del.icio.us/sogrady/waughpartners) [jeffwaugh](http://del.icio.us/sogrady/jeffwaugh) [opensource](http://del.icio.us/sogrady/opensource) [census](http://del.icio.us/sogrady/census)) - [Harmonization by augmenting ODF with OOXML elements – O’Reilly XML Blog](http://www.oreillynet.com/xml/blog/2007/09/harmonization_by_augmenting_od.html) couple of people have sent this along, and it’s a very interesting idea; be interesting to see how the namespace embedding affected performance. wondering too if this isn’t the approach some of the plugin providers have taken. (tags: [harmonization](http://del.icio.us/sogrady/harmonization) [odf](http://del.icio.us/sogrady/odf) [rickjelliffe](http://del.icio.us/sogrady/rickjelliffe) [ooxml](http://del.icio.us/sogrady/ooxml) [office](http://del.icio.us/sogrady/office) [productivity](http://del.icio.us/sogrady/productivity) [formats](http://del.icio.us/sogrady/formats)) - [The blurred line between personal information management and publishing « Jon Udell](http://blog.jonudell.net/2007/09/12/the-blurred-line-between-personal-information-management-and-publishing/) ” ‘Jon Udell tags his own things almost exclusively. That’s lame.’ Historically that’s not true, but recently it looks that way, and in any case it’s a fair comment.” it’s funny. i don’t tag my own stuff for these reasons, but appreciate that Jon do (tags: [jonudell](http://del.icio.us/sogrady/jonudell) [del](http://del.icio.us/sogrady/del) [del.icio.us](http://del.icio.us/sogrady/del.icio.us) [folksonomy](http://del.icio.us/sogrady/folksonomy) [pim](http://del.icio.us/sogrady/pim) [syndication](http://del.icio.us/sogrady/syndication) [tagging](http://del.icio.us/sogrady/tagging)) - [Adam Bosworth leaves Google | InfoWorld | News | 2007-09-11 | By Juan Carlos Perez, IDG News Service](http://www.infoworld.com/article/07/09/11/Adam-Bosworth-leaves-Google_1.html) a loss for Google, certainly. i value Adam’s vision very highly (tags: [adambosworth](http://del.icio.us/sogrady/adambosworth) [google](http://del.icio.us/sogrady/google) [departure](http://del.icio.us/sogrady/departure) [via:david](http://del.icio.us/sogrady/via:david)) - [Microsoft swipes at Google Apps | Tech News on ZDNet](http://news.zdnet.com/2100-3513_22-6207581.html) interesting. Microsoft must be seeing substantial incursions into their territory more quickly than i’d anticipated. some of the objections are quite legitimate, but several are curious. if i was MSFT, i would not be attacking on “release schedules” (tags: [microsoft](http://del.icio.us/sogrady/microsoft) [google](http://del.icio.us/sogrady/google) [apps](http://del.icio.us/sogrady/apps) [attack](http://del.icio.us/sogrady/attack) [office](http://del.icio.us/sogrady/office) [prodcutivity](http://del.icio.us/sogrady/prodcutivity) [collaboration](http://del.icio.us/sogrady/collaboration) [via:david](http://del.icio.us/sogrady/via:david)) - [Urban Abandonments: 7 Deserted Wonders of the (Post)Modern World](http://weburbanist.com/2007/08/08/urban-abandonments-7-deserted-wonders-of-the-postmodern-world/) sucker for things like this (tags: [abandoned](http://del.icio.us/sogrady/abandoned) [cool](http://del.icio.us/sogrady/cool) [decay](http://del.icio.us/sogrady/decay) [design](http://del.icio.us/sogrady/design) [architecture](http://del.icio.us/sogrady/architecture) [city](http://del.icio.us/sogrady/city)) - [Underwater Urban Archeology: 7 Submerged Wonders of the World](http://weburbanist.com/2007/09/12/underwater-urban-archeology-7-submerged-wonders-of-the-world/) and this, though the videos i’ve seen of Yonaguni are not terribly impressive (tags: [yonaguni](http://del.icio.us/sogrady/yonaguni) [abandoned](http://del.icio.us/sogrady/abandoned) [ocean](http://del.icio.us/sogrady/ocean) [weburbanist](http://del.icio.us/sogrady/weburbanist)) - [Urban Abandonments: 7 More Deserted Wonders of the Modern World – Cities, Towns and Other Urban Centers](http://weburbanist.com/2007/08/30/urban-abandonments-part-two-7-more-deserted-wonders-of-the-modern-world/) this too (tags: [abandoned](http://del.icio.us/sogrady/abandoned) [deserted](http://del.icio.us/sogrady/deserted) [wonders](http://del.icio.us/sogrady/wonders) [weburbanist](http://del.icio.us/sogrady/weburbanist) [cool](http://del.icio.us/sogrady/cool) [interesting](http://del.icio.us/sogrady/interesting)) - [Google SMS Adds Location-Based Personalization](http://googlesystem.blogspot.com/2007/09/google-sms-adds-personalization.html) very cool. sending the location every time gets tiresome. (tags: [google](http://del.icio.us/sogrady/google) [sms](http://del.icio.us/sogrady/sms) [location](http://del.icio.us/sogrady/location) [gps](http://del.icio.us/sogrady/gps)) - [War On String May Be Unwinnable, Says Cat General | The Onion – America’s Finest News Source](http://www.theonion.com/content/node/37503) ok, i give in. this is pretty funny. (tags: [theonion](http://del.icio.us/sogrady/theonion) [cat](http://del.icio.us/sogrady/cat) [funny](http://del.icio.us/sogrady/funny) [humor](http://del.icio.us/sogrady/humor) [via:bree](http://del.icio.us/sogrady/via:bree))