Random-ass links from a weekend spent mostly being totally unproductive:
Does anyone really wander around thinking ‘you know, I really wish nytimes.com looked more like a newspaper’? That MS and NYT have apparently been working on just this ‘feature’ makes me think that something is deeply, deeply broken. The only good thing about this as far [...]
I posted a while back on the ’subscribe to feed as email’ problem. Saw today another solution- squeet. Looks pretty nice, though if you trust your own server/code, the wordpress plugin will probably do most of what you need.
Paul Cooper elaborates on my posts on OpenOffice, highlighting that the place that free software can attack (and not just follow) is software that crosses the boundary of the single device. We’re currently pretty lousy at that. Interesting post.
Tangentially, at work, we’re playing with Second Life. So far we’re doing a lot of things that [...]
I’m at the bloggership conference here at work, where the panelists are discussing the relationship of blogging to traditional scholarship (specifically in the legal realm.) Really interesting stuff. Tim Armstrong (as usual) writes about it very well, and Michael Froomkin has a list of other people who are blogging it. If you’re curious, it is [...]
I know I rag on OpenOffice a lot, but no other open source software I know of has an ad on Japanese TV. Featuring the birth of a horse in the middle of a convenience store. No, I’m not kidding. Japanese translations probably welcome :)
Great post by Dare Obasanjo (MS employee) titled ‘New Features Are Not Innovation’ that everyone in software should read.
Along those lines, on the one hand, I’m thrilled to see that ekiga is working on improving their UI, but on the other hand, what I really want to do is lock ekiga, gaim, and evo in [...]
calum: of course it is easier to sit on your hands and not piss off existing customers, but sometimes you have to piss off existing customers to get a broader audience. If OOo is happy with serving the 3% of the population who like Office’s functionality but not Office’s licensing, then OOo shouldn’t change a [...]
Steven O’Grady is, as usual, right on in his discussion of disruptive software development strategy. Money quote:
As Sun Tzu says, “You can be sure of succeeding in your attacks if you only attack places which are undefended,” and yet we see on a regular basis firms committing the technology equivalent of Pickett’s Charge. Examples? [...]
This conference is all off the record, but I figure this nugget can’t hurt to put on the record:
We figure if we ever have a Nobel prize winner here, it’ll be for literature. The ed man page is better than any portugese poetry.
Also, last night:
I’m at $BIG_COMPANY; I’m serving a 3 year sentence for entrepreneurial [...]
[If you're already sick of my IBM ranting, you should probably ignore this post.]
So it turns out that my IBM problem was not, in fact, the fan. Probably something in the motherboard related to the fan. Why do I know that? Because after all this, at about 4:15 today, the IBM guy came and dutifully [...]
