From the article, "Bill Schreiner, Vice President, AOL Community, puts it in perspective: "In a way, blogs serve as oral history.""
Oral??
It "sounds" to me that this study prooved nothing bloggers didn't already know. Then again, any study that has been done on blogging has always been done by those who are trying to understand it - without becoming a part of it.
And what does this study prove? That they still don't get it.
Oral indeed!
Your applications may be different from those I've worked with (being that I am a geographer, not a programmer). When you mention geodatabases the first thing that popped into my head was GIS ( http://www.gis.com/ ). And my first solution was to recommend taking a night class twice a week and get your company to reimburse you upon succesful completion of the course. If GIS is what you are interested in interfacing with there should be a university in your area that will cover what you need to know.
If not, look into http://www.opengeospatial.org/
Assuming it is GIS that you are working with. Good luck.
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gamer4Life, China is "officially" a communist country. I will refrain from posting any more than that. I wouldn't want /. to get fined 30,000 renminbi.
An authoritarian government can be any kind of governmental system from an anarchist state to a theocracy (Like the US).
From the article, "Bill Schreiner, Vice President, AOL Community, puts it in perspective: "In a way, blogs serve as oral history."" Oral?? It "sounds" to me that this study prooved nothing bloggers didn't already know. Then again, any study that has been done on blogging has always been done by those who are trying to understand it - without becoming a part of it. And what does this study prove? That they still don't get it. Oral indeed!
Your applications may be different from those I've worked with (being that I am a geographer, not a programmer). When you mention geodatabases the first thing that popped into my head was GIS ( http://www.gis.com/ ). And my first solution was to recommend taking a night class twice a week and get your company to reimburse you upon succesful completion of the course. If GIS is what you are interested in interfacing with there should be a university in your area that will cover what you need to know. If not, look into http://www.opengeospatial.org/ Assuming it is GIS that you are working with. Good luck.