Four quick notes on Havoc’s GUADEC keynote:
I did the right thing by not going to GUADEC, but man, I wish I were at GUADEC.
Havoc (and others saying the same thing) are completely right that we must move towards deep web integration. I have no strong opinion on whether online-desktop is the right technological approach for [...]
This is hardly an original sentiment (we had it from time to time at Berkman when we discussed whether or not it made sense to have meetings for blogging) but I think Jonathan puts it well:
But I’d love it if we one day eliminated the term “blogging” from the web lexicon (and that we [...]
So, in practice, s5 is almost but not quite the bomb. The dual screen thing worked incredibly well- I looked at the screen only once, and then only because I had to highlight some text on the screen. And the timer was nice. Unfortunately, putting the theme together was a PITA, and I had to [...]
I was reminded today that not everyone knows of the Kensington Wireless Presenter. If you speak or present regularly you need to get one of these, unless you’re one of those boring presenters who actually likes to stand behind the podium all the time. It works with every device on earth that supports a USB [...]
I was told Friday that my laptop, with recent-ish (Fedora 7) X could finally do sexy things like ‘plug in an external monitor and have it do more than clone the laptop’s monitor.’ The first thing that popped to mind when I heard that was ‘ooh, I could do slides on the VGA out while [...]
I’ll be in Cambridge, MA tonight (Thursday) at The Swan, starting at about 8:45-9:00 pm (assuming my flight is not delayed.) Don’t wait for an invite because there won’t be one :)2
I have no firm plans for tomorrow night (Friday), but hopefully I can figure them out sometime tomorrow morning; they’ll be a similarly public [...]
This deserves to be developed more fully, but perhaps the thread that ties together my irritation with the MS-Novell deal, my irritation with the Mozilla TM licensing, and what worries me about the push against copylefted DB data, is the creation of (or in the DB case, allows the creation of) artificial scarcity. I’m OK [...]
A couple of weeks ago I finished reading Cass Sunstein’s Infotopia. While certainly not a perfect book by any stretch, it gives a stimulating overview of a central problem for any society- how it collects and filters information so that it can make decisions. Being a good U of C guy, he starts with Hayek’s [...]
“One of my great fantasies in life is that the number of people with opinions on open source licenses will come roughly into balance with the number of people who have read them.”
– “Sun CEO Mum on GPL v3“
Several weeks worth of links, dumped:
a law firm that actually wants to encourage productivity and efficiency through competition is either brilliant or terrifying, or maybe both.
I think there is much truth in what Jason is saying about the web; a desktop that provides high-quality free horses and buggies is going to get whooped by advertising-supported [...]
