links, random thoughts, various opinions
I’ll be in Veracruz, Mexico on Tuesday for a conference. I was there about six years ago… I’m hoping this trip is as productive business wise as last time… but a little less eventful.
Traveling with these casts is going to be a challenge… that said I can at least hold a fork […]
Aggregation can now be customized, and it can be done by machine.
…sorry no time these days to post much else… especially about the trip to Montreal and Korea… Learned a lot in both places. Hopefully can catch up over the holidays.
As an aside I really like Veer’s new homepage, and the New York Times […]
I’ve been planning on getting a new TV this year… my current Wega from Sony has served me well but the flat screens have come way down in price and I could use the space in my apartment. For years my friends and I considered Sony the default best home electronics. A Sony […]
Can we fix the software development process with innovative management?
“Cooper starts from the proposition that software development projects are opaque to management, generally failures, and therefore management underfunds and understaffs them, hoping that, if failure is inevitable, at least it will be a cheaper failure.”
Design Leads & Wireframes
“I have always believed in the speed, breadth […]
Couple of interesting tech links this weekend to keep an eye on… applies to all industries, especially ours.
Just Googling It Is Striking Fear Into Companies [NY Times Free Registration]
“Google, the reigning giant of Web search, could extend its economic reach in the next few years as more people get high-speed Internet service and cellphones become […]
Back in Vancouver after a very busy (and productive trip)… some light (and rather odd) reading… (check out the last two paragraphs in particular)…
TURING’S CATHEDRAL [10.24.05]
“My visit to Google? Despite the whimsical furniture and other toys, I felt I was entering a 14th-century cathedral — not in the 14th century but in the 12th century, […]
Media Companies Go Too Far in Curbing Consumers’ Activities
“On the other hand, I believe that consumers should have broad leeway to use legally purchased music and video for personal, noncommercial purposes in any way they want — as long as they don’t engage in mass distribution. They should be able to copy it to as […]
It’s the User, Stupid
“Web 2.0 is making the Web better for the user. It’s investing in the user and making things easier through RSS, OPML, Ajax, Flash, Laszlo, DHTML, Widgets, Gadgets, Contraptions. The new Web appeals to the senses of the user. We’re still in a primative state with user interfaces on the Web. There’s […]
It’s about damn time.
A Rocket To Nowhere
“The people who work at and run NASA are not cynical, but the charade of manned space flight is turning NASA into a cynical organization. For all the talk of building a culture of safety, no one has pointed out the inherent contradiction in requiring that a program justified on irrational grounds […]
Accessories Make the Nerd
“Here is what Web 2.0 WILL be, in my view: a new way of structuring Internet businesses around published APIs, Application Programming Interfaces. New companies will spring up that simply glue web-based APIs together. For example, Google Maps plus accident reports for insurance companies, or Amazon plus eBay plus Froogle for purchasing […]
It’s true, Camino is a faster web browser.
The End Of The Rainbow
“Here’s something you probably didn’t know: Ireland today is the richest country in the European Union after Luxembourg.”
Today’s Dilbert is just too good not to link to.
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O’Reilly Radar
How Battlestar Galactica Killed Broadcast TV
“While you might assume the SciFi Channel saw a significant drop-off in viewership as a result of this piracy, it appears to have had the reverse effect: the series is so good that the few tens of thousands of people who watched downloaded versions told their friends to tune in […]
Participatory Culture Foundation
“Announcing a new platform for internet television and video. Anyone can broadcast full-screen video to thousands of people at virtually no cost, using BitTorrent technology. Viewers get intuitive, elegant software to subscribe to channels, watch video, and organize their video library. The project is non-profit, open source, and built on open standards. Today […]
Foiling Spies At The Vatican
“Vatican security refused to discuss the details of any anti-bugging measures to be used during the conclave. But Giuseppe Mazzullo, a private detective and retired Rome policeman whose former unit worked closely with the Vatican in the past, said the Holy See will reinforce its own experts with Italian police and […]
Let The Truth Be Told - MGM vs. Grokster
“It won’t be a good day when high school entrepreneurs have to get a fairness opinion from a technology oriented law firm to confirm that big music or movie studios wont sue you because they can come up with an angle that makes a judge […]
CSPAN as a clip of a debate between “Fred Von Lohmann, Senior Staff Attorney for the Electronic Frontier Foundation, and Theodore Olson, Former Solicitor General for the Bush Administration (2001-2004) and Representative of the Recording Industry and Motion Pictures Association”. They are “discuss(ing) the Supreme Court case on sharing music and video files over […]