April 2008
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NY Times covers bloggorrhea sufferers
In Web World of 24/7 Stress, Writers Blog Till They Drop, headlines the New York Times. “They work long hours, often to exhaustion. Many are paid by the piece — not garments, but blog posts. This is the digital-era sweatshop”, it begins. It’s about blogging for bucks. Marc Orchant and Russell Shaw, both of whom… Continue reading
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The (be)low cost airline
Blog here says Skybus, which for awhile had $10 fares, has cratered. Continue reading
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Nice recipe
Ben Laurie points to stpeter’s invite to moosh together Jabber/XMPP, OpenID, Oauth and the Web. Sounds tasty to me. Continue reading
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Worthwhile Workshops
The best conferences aren’t conferences at all. They’re workshops. Meaning, work gets done there. Things move forward. Barns get raised. Or razed to make way for better barns. And all those things are subjects chosen by the participants, which for conferences would be called “attendees” or “the audience”. At workshops, everybody contributes. This is the… Continue reading
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Living Lessig
Listening to, and blogging, Lessig live from the Ames Courtroom here at Harvard, as part of the Berkman@10 celebration. Lessig was here at the founding. Some public notes from his talk… There are two and a half doctors for every drug representative. Story: He disqualified himself as a geek by asking a question about law… Continue reading
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It would be kinda late
My sister just heard Steven Colbert ask Jon Stewart if Bill and Hillary would catch the Cluetrain. Continue reading
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See-through Net Roots
The Glass Roots Revolution. A sample: Where it goes is the independent hacking together of everything: a convergence of cheap, mobile and hackable. Add to that the half-zillion open source code bases now populate the world of useful tools and building materials, and you have the ingredients — if not yet the recipe —… Continue reading
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Quote du decade
Net Neutrality? That horse left the barn, got on a boat and went to Europe long ago. — DeWayne Hendricks, speaking at F2C DeWayne is leaving the country. Going offshore. Because he’s giving up on geeks here in the U.S. We’re not fighting for the Net, he says. And we need to. A link: ipsphere.org.… Continue reading