iMind - by Jim Phelps

Sun - October 2, 2005

New blog www.jimphelps.info

Hi All,

I am deprecating this blog and moving to WordPress on my own domain. Follow me on over to http://www.jimphelps.info for my personal blog. My work blog is at http://arch.doit.wisc.edu/jim/

Thu - February 3, 2005

Sprint and the LG PM-325

A while back I wrote that I want a new cell phone with bluetooth . Sprint has launched the LG PM-325 (Engadget Story about the LG PM-325). This is a slider style phone with bluetooth, a camera, nice bright color screen and lots of goodies. But (isn't there always a but in these stories), BUT - Sprint put half-assed bluetooth on the phone.

Mon - January 31, 2005

I'm trying Sideblog for Books and Music

I got tired of trying to maintain the "What I'm Reading" list on the side of my blog (and the "What I'm Listening To" list come to think of it). Both are way out of date. I saw "Sideblog" over on samblog @ Very Simple by Sam Dow. Sam uses it for quick posts when she doesn't want to fire up iBlog to make a post.

Thu - January 27, 2005

G4Tech TV, MTV - Kevin Rose and Adam Curry

I follow a couple of different blogs in the Popular Tech Realm. One is Kevin Rose (http://www.kevinrose.com) who was a host on The Screen Savers (back in the better not so old days) and tech guy in the much better good old days before G4 bought TechTV... but I've ranted about that elsewhere. The other is a podcast (audio blog) by Adam Curry (http://www.curry.com ) WARNING - Adam Curry's podcasts are quite often not office safe nor family listening.

Tue - December 28, 2004

What's on the (mp3) radio?

Public radio is starting to publish shows in downloadable MP3 format. Mix this with Podcasting and the next radio revolution will begin. We have all the bits we need for time-shifted, pulled media that automatically moves to our iPods.

Wed - November 17, 2004

Once there was TechTV - and it was pretty good

Once upon a time there was a cable channel called TechTV. Jim and Ena used to watch TechTV. TechTV had this great short series called "Big Thinkers". "Big Thinkers" were 30 minute documentary interviews with some of the leaders in various areas. Lawrence Lessig talked about the loss of the common domain and fair use of copyrighted materials. Dr. Jill Tarter talked about SETI. Others talked about physics, robotics and neural development. The "Big Thinkers" series was wonderfully edited and filmed. The shows flowed tightly and cleanly. They were very informative. They were very good.