Nesmith's Notes

Entries for February, 2007

Building the 21st century education system

Are our schools prepared for the challenges our kids will face this century?  This decade?  Alvin Toffler suggest our schools were built to prepare the rural American child for the industrial revolution.  Get to work on time, enjoy repetitive tasks and essentially fall in line.  Agree?  Perhaps we have advanced somewhat since the late 1800’s [...]

Satellites To Launch On One Rocket

5 Satellites To Launch On One Rocket
The first camp holds that the substorms are triggered about 50,000 miles above Earth’s equator, about a sixth of the way to the moon, when electromagnetic turbulence disrupts the flow of intense space currents.
The other theory is that the substorms start about 100,000 miles above the equator with the [...]

Web 2.0 hits saturation

Buzzmeister’s beware!  The Valleywag buzzmeter shows Web 2.0 hits saturation.   That’s so 2006.  How should a capital hungry business owner create excitement among the technology captains of capital?

Not a Pipe Dream

I’ve been playing around with Yahoo Pipes and I like it.  Still not sure where to type the “|” symbol and I expect we will all get beyond that pretty quickly.
Once you get past the somewhat confusing configuration boxes and understand the tool does a very good job of parsing urls whether feeds, news or [...]

Bomb fear advertising trend – I hope not

I haven’t found it, but I’m sure if it hasn’t already been done, someone will analyze this advertising campaign in terms of publicity vs. cost. They may well find that the additional publicity from the disruption of business in Boston was well worth the $500 to $600 thousand the company will pay Boston for [...]