I continue to research small form factor PC-based solutions.  There is a a company out of Europe called Digital-Logic with a MICROSPACE-PC family with a host of options with pricing starting at $1601 (discounts available for large orders), and go up to $4386 (bundled with 19" TFT monitor).

The distributor in the United States is Advanced Digital Logic based in San Diego, CA. [Which I have no affiliation.]

This is just a quick reference blurb in case people are interested in
some scientific research on the topic of blogs.  The December 2004
edition of Communications of ACM (Vol. 47, Number 12) has the following articles:

• "The Blogosphere" by Andrew Rosenbloom
• "The Structure and Evolution of Blogspace" by Ravi Kumar, Jasmine Novak, Prabhakar Raghavan, and Andrew Tomkins
• "Why We Blog" by Bonnie Nardi, Diane Schiano, Michelle Gumbrecht, and Luke Swartz
• "Semantic Blogging and Decentralized Knowledge Management" by Steve Cayzer
• "How Blogging Software Reshapes The Online Community" by Rebecca Blood
• "Democracy and Filtering" by Cass Sunstein

The previous Tech Tidbits Daily that introduced the topic of XForms opened up my eyes to a bunch of new resources over the last 24 hours.

First off, the Mozilla Foundation has a beta release of a XForms plug-in for Firefox.

Second, Infoworld published on 02.28.05 has a detailed Test Center review by 
 
Rick Grehan of three solutions: DENG 1.0 [8 out of 10]; Orbeon Presentation Server 2.7 and Orbeon Studio 1.2 [7.8 out of 10]; and PureEdge 8x Suite 2.6 [7.9 out of 10].

And they also had a great list of resources to learn more about XForms:

• W3C
• W3 School XForms Tutorial
• "Next Generation E-Forms" by Jon Udell
• Chiba
• XForms Computes [from Phil Windley]

This is your Tech Tidbits Daily for Wednesday, Mar. 2nd 2005. Did you know that you can subscribe to eBay search services via RSS feeds?  You can’t do it directly (maybe that will be a future feature), but Cori @ kinrowan.blogspot.com notes that there are a couple of 3rd party services that can help: RSS Auction and Power To The Buyer. So, the next time that Apple Newton MessagePad 110 with a clear plastic shell goes on sale, you will know about it. For
more information about the links mentioned in this podcast, or for more
details on how to subscribe to this podcast check out www.technewsradio.com. Have a great
day.

Cerulean Studios has released version 3.1 Build 121 of Trillian Basic – the multi-vendor chat client that supports MSN, AOL, Yahoo, and IRC.

There is a "neat" neat feature that while chatting if a ‘word’ comes up that is included in Wikipedia, then there is a link to that page within Wikipedia.