At our introductory dinner Thursday night, a professor spoke on the importance of doing what you want to do and avoiding the risk-avoiding*, herd-following behavior that all lawyers fall into when considering careers. It was a nice speech, and I do hope a lot of people listen to her. Unfortunately, we won’t- something like 97% [...]
My buds at stopbadware.org released a report Monday, finding AOL 9.0 to be… well, not perfect. And today it makes the NYT. Good for them.
We wrestled a lot with the notion of language at stopbadware- how to define badness beyond a porn-like ‘know it when I see it‘. Ed__ said it well in one of [...]
[Wrote this months ago when I was looking at DReaM, never quite finished, but figured I'd flush it from the queue. I was a much better-behaved blogger when my blogging tools didn't let me save drafts...]
Let me preface this, again, by saying that Sun’s DReaM is quite likely the best option out there for DRM/CRAP. [...]
It is very hard to be an old legacy company trying honestly to turn into an open company, example #5321: Jonathan Schwartz’s request for benchmarking on new Sparc/Solaris boxes is directly contradicted by the Solaris license. I am absolutely certain this is not what Jonathan intended, and I know that clause is standard throughout the [...]
Tomorrow my co-workers, Jason and Christina, get to meet The Architect, aka Vint Cerf. I’m intensely jealous.
If you go to OSCON this summer, say hi to Tim O’Reilly. And (assuming this article is accurate) give him a good smack upside the head for trademarking ‘Web 2.0′ and cease-and-desisting people over it. Yup. To quote the article linked:
In his own damn blog (which, it must be pointed out, is published under a [...]
So, everyone on earth should read the cluetrain manifesto. But if you are short on time, just read this:
Cluetrain has a little more nuance, and a lot more detail, but that’s the gist of it.
I had my most productive day in ages today, writing nearly 4,000 words, including some that had been hanging over my head for ages. I was able to do it, despite spending some time coping with a big server outage (a UPS failed), because… well, I left the office and went to a cafe with [...]
In the category of ‘intellectual property claims that absolutely blow my mind’, Amazon has trademarked… ‘Real Name’. That’s right, whenever you use the two words ‘Real Name’ in e-commerce to indicate that you have verified that someone’s online name is in fact their real name, that is a trademark violation.
In a fit of civil disobedience, [...]
Went to a brainstorming session for OneWeb Day last night. While the project seems almost quixotic in some ways, it is definitely a worthwhile project, and I hope it succeeds- I still very clearly remember the first time I had a social conversation with someone from a different country who I’d met and worked with [...]
