Everyone else is linking to it, but this is beautiful: Infrastructure: Why geeks build it, why Hollywood doesn’t understand it, how business can take advantage of it. by Doc Searls, Co-author of The Cluetrain Manifesto
So this past weekend, I wrote (thanks for the link, Jenny!) about continuing down the road of my experiments with news aggregation and the tweaks I’ve been doing to AmphetaDesk’s interface. Well, I’m at it again. I’m debating whether to post what I have so far for download yet, since I’m still refining [...]
So just a couple of weeks ago, I was laughing at Monday: (Their colon, not mine. They wouldn’t like my colon.) The rebranding struck me as the last spastic hyper-hypo twitch of the 90s’ super-high-energy-please-God-make-them-like-me theme. The Register, bless their souls, don’t like Monday:’s either. It reminds me of when one of my [...]
From The Shifted Librarian:I am a media company’s dream. I get the whole digital cable package, I love music and own hundreds of CDs, I frequently go to movie theaters, my study is lined with books, I like DVDs because of the extras and the quality of the picture, I attend plays, I like going [...]
Oh, and one more thing: I assume you’ve seen the new iTunes. I want to steal the new features for my news aggregator. I’d been thinking of these things long before the new version came out, but of course these are not unique ideas. And how well they seem to work [...]
Yes, I’m still out here. Busy and occupied and A.W.O.L. from most of the communities in which I was squatting this Spring, but I want to wander back in. Maybe I can consider this a Summer break of sorts, assuming that I rejoin with feeling when the weather gets colder. Is this [...]
Okay, I do this in what seems like an annual cycle: Juggle hardware and operating systems around on my home PCs. The tool I always seem to lose and need again is something to safely allow me to resize and move hard drive partitions, whether they be Linux or Windows. Has anyone [...]
Okay, so I’ve seen my first spam via my referrers. Checked my referrers RSS feed this morning to see the following pages in the list: http://www.voodoomachine.com/sexenhancer.html
Hi there! My name is Leslie Michael Orchard. I'm a serially enthusiastic, caffeine-dependent {web,mad,computer} scientist and {tech,scifi} writer working for the Mozilla Corporation and living near Ann Arbor / Detroit in Michigan.
