2008
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Going from San Francisco
Got some nice shots of San Francisco and Marin on Sunday, as we flew off to Chicago on the first leg of the trip home from Thanksgiving in California. Actually, my kid shot most of them, since he had the window seat. Shot some other stuff too, which I’ll put up later. Mount Tamalpias (better… Continue reading
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Toward actually interactive governance
Open-Government.us has some principles for Change.gov (our government-in-waiting). I just signed the petition. Mostly I’d like documents to be in .html or .txt, instead of .doc and .pdf, or worse. That would be a great start. Continue reading
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A black & white flag in the evening sky
My son found the perfect way to interrupt my absolute concentration on work this evening: by pointing out that the Moon, Venus and Jupiter were forming a jewel-box of an arrangement in the evening sky. And sure enough, they were. So I took a bunch of shots, of which I kept the two that comprise… Continue reading
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Will the real History of CRM please stand up?
So I’m looking around for a fact. Specifically, an answer to this question: Who came up with CRM — Customer Relationship Management — as an idea (and later as a software and business category). It must have come from somebody, or somecompany, somewhere, right? I just looked up History of CRM on Google. I’ve tried… Continue reading
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Grinding at the hub
We left SFO at 11am yesterday, and got into BOS at 3am. The delay in the middle was at ORD: O’Hare. We arrived at 6pm to find that our 7pm flight had been delayed to 9:10. After going to dinner at the Macaroni Grill (chosen after tweeting a request that was answered nicely by Todd… Continue reading
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Fun with personalities
Keeping Linux Safe Since 1994 is my latest at Linux Journal. It’s fun with Typeanalyzer. Try it on your blog, and see what it says. Don’t be surprised if the results are different than those for yourself. Continue reading
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Bailing on the bailout
Back in September or so I blogged in favor of the $700 billion stimulus package. In those days, now so long ago, I thought, against my otherwise better judgement, that we needed to do something. Now I don’t. Now I think we need to let the train wreck finish happening before we “stimulate” anything. If… Continue reading
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Unexpected but inevitable pops
What if every product category, every business, is a bubble — and some just last longer? We know the newspaper business was a bubble. It lasted over a century, but here we are, at the end of it. Papers will still be around, for the same reason that railroads and mainframe computers are still around.… Continue reading
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Required re-reading
A pause this Thanksgiving weekend to appreciate The Word Detective, which has been around forever, which is to say since 1995. I remember The Word Dectective from way back in the Early Daze, when there were relatively few websites (say, 103 or 104, 5 or 6 of them) and it was already obvious, to their… Continue reading
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Prodigyous
Ze says this blogger is 12. His hedge, which I second: I will say that if this is some weird viral H&M marketing scheme, I will be very angry. Continue reading
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Obituaries on hold
Shel Holtz lists all the techs whose reported deaths are still exaggerated. Hat tip to Zane Safrit. Continue reading
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Nice validation
Of The Open Source Force Behind the Obama Campaign, Joe Trippi writes, I’ve never read a more accurate explanation of how the Linux movement and Open Source influenced and formed the foundational thinking for the political movement that, now, has helped produce Barack Obama’s Victory. Continue reading
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The government crash
The amazing thing about crashes is that you can see them coming. They’re not surprises like earthquakes or meteor impacts. A sure sign of their approach is too much speculative lending, which contributes to the boom that sets up the bust. We saw it in housing in the 70s and 80s, which led to the… Continue reading
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“Bloggers unpacking issues…
…that remain hidden from public view.” That’s just one phrase just uttered by Antony Lowenstein, author of The Blogging Revolution and speaker at lunch here at the Berkman Center. The talk, which is a debate/q&a, is going on now (12:44pm), and being webcast live. Strong stuff. Many of the bloggers he’s talking about are in… Continue reading
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Signs of the Places
I was early for a talk by Irving Wladawsky-Berger at Harvard Law School a couple hours ago (just one among many terrific talks that go on around here) when I got in a conversation with Victoria Stodden about localities. Both of us have lives and affections split between Cambridge and California. As the weather gets… Continue reading
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Rebooting everything
Things really are going from bad to worse. Trees do not grow to the sky. True for countries as well as companies. Bonus exchange. Continue reading
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This girl needs a kidney
From Chris Brogan via JP, a call to re-tweet: Sew hoping for a miracle. Here is an earlier picture (and post about) Marielle, by her mom, the blogger Sue (aka Sew), of The Domestic Diva. Marielle is dying, literally, for a kidney match. Pass the word along. Somebody somewhere should be able to help. Continue reading
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For thinking out loud
Four knowing and provocative posts by Steve Lewis: Infrastructural Convergence: Broadband over Power Lines An Intellectual’s Ascent to the White House and the Half-Century Decline of American Conservatism from Intellectuality to Ignorance Purple vs. Pixelated: The Obsolecence of States and the Reality of Differences Viktor Klemperer, Values-Based Identity, German and Dutch Perspectives Online, and… Continue reading