IMS Signals

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seeing dots ...

An ode to "The Little Blue Dot That Could."

Getting To Know Gartner

The road to .org is paved with meaningless criteria.

Spread The Dot : Status Report

Our new "spread the dot" status report contains a summary of support for our bid and some forward-looking projections. With your help, anything is possible.*

OSCON 2002 Road Trip

I was certainly looking forward to OSCON 2002...I had everything all mapped out. But when online life and the real world collide, things don't always go according to plan.

Karl Auerbach wins case against ICANN

Karl Auerbach v. ICANN

The Right Piece

I dunno. Maybe I'm just too slow. It really takes me a long time to articulate things. I have to look at it from every angle, flip it over, turn it inside out. I guess it's the designer in me.

Thanks, Aaron. We've got that web focus thing under control.

Thanks for the kind words about the shirt. The rest ... I'm still parsing ... parsing ... nope. Does not compute.

Five O'Dot

Tick. Tock. Tick. Tock. Tick. Tock. Spread. Dot.

PowerBook G4 NoMore

While tour buses gathered for cocktails in Bucharest, multiple web initiatives were being launched in tandem from home via my trusty Titanium Powerbook G4. Alas, the strain proved too great for my shelf-lifelong friend ... and forces more powerful prevailed. I learned an important life lesson: when the going gets tough, never let the pug and baby get too close to the hardware.

Hi! Actually, its Georgia, not Bodoni :-)

"Now that Verisign has coughed up the top-level domains .org and .net so that it can keep control of .com until 2007, The Internet Software Consortium and the Internet Multicasting Service have entered a proposal to turn the .org domain into a public trust. (Their logo for the proposal, shown at left, bears a striking similarity to the dsandler.org logotype. The difference: They're using Bodoni; I'm using Filosofia.)" [via: dsandler.org]

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IMS Signals 1.0 Launches

In light of recent events, IMS Signals 1.0 launched today. It is our first phase of work on conversational applications, which we will be rolling out the door over the next couple of months.

undesign - a plan for all seasons

undesign began as an essay written by media.org during the dot-com downturn of Y2K+1. It was originally intended for publication at A List Apart magazine.

Techno Greeks

Techno Greeks: “With the rise of technologies such as XML, the promise of the true metafiltering and metaprogramming ... are firmly within our grasp. Look at the inherent filtering aspect of blogs, and imagine how powerful they could be in a collaborative context. Unfortunately, in many cases, the blogs degenerate from a useful filtering mechanism on the net into a series of disjoined one-way conversations, connected together only by elite cross-linking. ” ...