I assume most of the people who read my blog either already know or don’t care what the web is doing to newspapers (and journalism in general), but if not, this is a really good overview of the subject, covering it with breadth and without too much hype.
Totally awesome to see that a couple high profile tech doers and thinkers, Mark Pilgrim and Tim Bray, are switching back to Linux from OSX.
In his switching article, Mark makes the point that XCF (gimp’s format) is not particularly open, and is apparently undocumented. Norman Walsh expounds. I think this is a good example of [...]
A couple GUADECs ago, I agreed to do some good old fashioned research for the board on the issue of ‘crowding out of intrinsic motivations’- in other words, what happens when you start paying volunteers? I had been told by someone (I believe by the excellent Karim Lakhani) that there was good research demonstrating repeatedly [...]
Krissa and I spent yesterday morning driving out to an organic farm in Central Massachusetts (we’re a member of their food delivery program) and picking strawberries. Lots of fun. She wrote about it over at her blog, and took some great pictures too:
Yummy.
Whoa. Some good thinking and explaining going on there. Will have to write more later.
By moving much of our flame-inducing conversation to planet, an inherently controlled environment, we’ve mostly killed the most serious GNOME trolls. Hence, we don’t get nearly as many quality moments like this anymore. That post was apparently the web’s first instance of the key phrase, but it was only one of many responses to the [...]
I was skimming planet maemo this evening (the new software looks sexy, and I think the hardware may fill a role in my life, though sadly I did not avail myself of one of the developer units) when lo and behold, who is mentioned but… bowie j. poag. Wow. Blast from the past. For those [...]
Sadly, I probably will have to watch most games delayed, like I did today, but I’m excited to wake up in the morning tomorrow, flip on TV, flip on IRC, and snag whatever random futbol fans are in #gnome to watch soccer together :) Doing that regularly four years ago was a lot of fun, [...]
<rlove> luis: I don’t think J5 got your blog post.
<luis> I haven’t had a chance to read it yet, I’m at work
<luis> only the one sentence that came through wordpress moderation
<luis> certainly my point was not an ‘us v. them’ dichotomy
<rlove> exactly, your point was more on the power of the license
<luis> right
<rlove> nothing about [...]
Dave: but you’ve hit on the head exactly why you can’t trust Sun (or Novell, or RH) any further than you can trust their licenses. I love Glynn like a brother, I like Danese, and Simon Phipps and Jon Schwartz appear to be incredibly sharp and fairly clueful, and so I’m optimistic that the company [...]
