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• Mardis Gras
• Do I need a reason?
• March 4
• New Orleans
• SXSW South By Southwest
  • March 7-16
  • Austin, Texas
• Fray Cafe 3 
  • Great storytelling
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  • March 9
• PC Forum
  • March 23 to 25
  • Scottsdale, Arizona
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• ER Expo 2003 West
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• Wolff Family Reunion
  • Hi, Dad.
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  • Watcom County, Washington
• Foresignt Institute Spring 2003 Senior Associates Gathering
  • May 2-4
  • Vision Conference.  Annual Senior Associates Gathering Molecular Myth, Manufacturing, Money and Mania! Will the real nanotechnology please self assemble
  • Hotel Crowne Plaza Cabaña Palo Alto Silicon Valley, California
• BlogTalk
• May 23 - 24
• A European Conference On Weblogs: Web-based publishing, communication and collaboration tools for professional and private use. By Donau Universitat
• If my papers are accepted, I'll be speaking

• Tech Gate, Vienna, Austria 

Oh, for a travel budget, an unaudited expense account, and unlimited free time. 

John Udell reviews InfoPath, Microsoft's Radio-killer.

Like Radio, Microsoft InfoPath's a software client. It lets you read and write microcontent. It can talk to systems over the Internet, getting and passing data.

Unlike Radio, it morphs into the XML schema of your choice. It will open just about any semi-structured data. Movie reviews, SAP invoices, patient charts, project plans, résumés, and thousands more. So if you blog a movie review, your review can include a 4-star rating. That gets you blog posts filtered, grouped, and sorted by attributes.

In combination with the XML-centered Office 11, IE 7, an aggregator and syndicator, and a CMS/database, InfoPath becomes an incredibly powerful architecture, much like Radio. Click for a design view screenshot. That gets you blogs integrated with the rest of your enterprise application services.

So, coming soon, ...  

Blogging ain't just for blog posts anymore.