The utterly brilliant Yochai Benkler (who just published a new book on the Wealth of Networks, available in hardcover, CC-licensed PDF, or in wiki) will be giving a talk and book signing tomorrow night at work. He is a great speaker (much better speaker than writer, IMHO) and anyone who is in the area and [...]
Monthly Archives: April 2006
Benkler in Boston; me in California
17-Apr-06Saturday Morning Miscellany
15-Apr-06The MySQL user conference is going on the 24th-27th in Santa Clara, California. If you’re in the area and would like to volunteer to lead and run a GNOME booth, check out the latest post to marketing-list for information.
I live in Bizarro World. IBM next-day service takes forever, and the cable company will fix my [...]
Federico: So, if you’d posted on Monday, ‘man, IBM service is great’, I would have immediately posted a followup to the effect of ‘yeah, totally!’ [I can't agree about Dell service; on every piece of Dell hardware I've ever owned, the service has been prompt and reliable, though being forced to walk through a script [...]
Google Calendar is live
13-Apr-06Google Calendar is up, and looks pretty nice, though I can’t find ical export as is usually google’s practice. It is nice, though nothing seems particularly earthshaking about it. I’ve already filed an evo bug requesting the one feature that seems particularly nice. The rest just seems fairly polished and nice, but not ‘makes me [...]
Creative Commons is having a global summit in Rio at the same time we’re doing GUADEC- Lessig has blogged the details. I went to the first one, right here in Cambridge, and it was a blast. I’d highly recommend that any Free Software folks (particularly GNOME contributors) who are in Brazil or elsewhere in Latin [...]
Berkman In A Nutshell
12-Apr-06So, I’m doing a talk today over at HBS, talking about how cool where I work (the Berkman Center for Internet and Society at Harvard Law School) is. Instead of making up a slide deck, I thought I’d just use a web browser to walk people through the coolest stuff we do. And since my [...]
Sun’s Open Source DRM
10-Apr-06For a variety of reasons I’ve been looking into Sun’s ‘open source DRM’ scheme at work. Architecturally, it seems like a pretty solid solution. If you’re going to do CRAP, you might as well do it with open standards for interoperability between the different layers of the CRAP stack, so that people aren’t locked into [...]
rss email followup
10-Apr-06The lazyweb (via the excellent Boris Anthony) coughed up a wordpress plugin that does exactly what I want, and a service called feedblitz that looks pretty close. Also got email about Feedlinx, another similar but not-quite-what-I-want service.
Spring, finally
09-Apr-06Despite the snow Wednesday, and the bitter cold last night, spring is finally coming, slowly but surely. Was nice to get out and walk a bit with Krissa today and play with the new toy. More flower pictures behind the image link.
Jeff hits the big time
09-Apr-06Jeff has finally hit the big time- IT Conversations. I haven’t actually listened yet, but from the description it sounds like he is hitting on all the right points (as usual.)