Bryan Bell:

Vernon Wesley Bell died peacefully at home surrounded by his loving family on November 4, 2002. ... Vernon was born December 10, 1927, in Keyport, New Jersey, the fifth of William and Alice Bell's eight children. He graduated from South River High School in 1945. He joined the Army Air Corps and was stationed near Ogden, Utah. It was there that he met the love of his life, Berniece Anderson, at a Memorial Day picnic in 1947. They were married January 30, 1949. ...

His was a life unquestionably committed to his beloved wife, his large and loving family, his colleagues, his students and his faith--which he lived out every day of his life. His love of family included not only his children and family back in New Jersey, but also those many people he and Berniece welcomed into their home and hearts over the years. No one was a stranger to Vern. He was well loved by all who knew him for his irrepressible humor, his unflappable nature, his integrity and character, and his kindness. We will cherish all our wonderful memories of his--from his impish smile to his firm honesty, from his devotion to his wife and family to his ability to never take himself to seriously.

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28183  blogs in the BlogStreet directory. I wonder how fast it is growing

Spidering for blogrolls and RSS, BlogStreet generates my Blog Back Report (blogs linking to mine) and a Blog Neighbourhood Analysis (blogs with similar blogrolls). RSS Discovery shows my rss feed in clean html. The blogspace search feature may replace DayPop a little bit.

The Radio universe has at least 50K users, and there are probably more than 500K bloggers. How many are in Blogdex or the other community sites?

Can anyone suggest a tool to help with managing the product wishlist?

Hopefully web based and affordable, it would support:

• Brainstorming, capturing the zillion ideas and wishes
• The fleshing out stage, elaboration of the original ideas, grouping and categorization of those features, annotation with high level effort estimates and marketing priorities
• Multiple users, so engineering can put up estimates, everyone can comment, marketing/customers can prioritize; pushing data entry back to contributors.
• Staging and assignment to projects/products/releases.
• Search, status, and reporting

So much of this is done in Word and Excel, there has got to be a better way.

Experience? Suggestions?  AIM Y! @Ryze  

[a klog apart project management]

The Shifted Librarian is thinking about Radio Frequency Identification (RFID) for libraries. RFIDs work by sticking little chips on things you want to track. When exposed to the right radio signal, a chip broadcasts a little bit of data for a short distance. Really big in logistics where they want to eliminate all sorts of time spent on inventory, statusing, and clipboards.

My paranoid fantasy...

So we stick RFID tags in every book, starting at the publisher; ISBN Inside(TM). I check out of the library and go about my life.

I'm walking down the street and get scanned. The police are scanning the street for people carrying the Anarchist's Cookbook. Cult members accost me because I'm carrying Judaica. Merchants tailor signage. Republicans stone me. Beggars ask for more money.

These are books inside my knapsack, my pocket, my car; hidden from view.  

If the books I'm carrying are hooked up to my mobile phone profile, you might get just-in-time book salons and lunch meetings. Lovely Smart Mobs stuff.

But privacy doesn't stop at the library doors.

Just something to consider.