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Democracy’s the worst form of government…

Wednesday, May 14th, 2008

I was just catching up on some feeds and I came across a Matt Wilcox suggestion that really sparked my interest — social sites should ditch the ability to vote down…
Either vote up, or don’t vote at all. As your mother may once have told you; if you’ve not got something nice to say, don’t […]

The 20 hour workweek?

Friday, July 13th, 2007

According to Gartner, France’s famed 35 hour workweek (finally being loosened up by Sarkozy) may yet look like a miserable slog to us all in a few short years. Hell, it’s almost possible today, though the choice may be between bike or bus rather than of Benz or Beamer…
It’s all about choice, though. As self-sustenance […]

Do we really need fewer social networks?

Wednesday, June 27th, 2007

The best I can tell, Dave Winer’s been pretty close to the mark with his predictions (here’s a golden oldie from the around turn of the century). So I was surprised to see such a brazen little called shot so depressingly wrong…
Ponzi: “How do we decide how many social networks is enough? Are there any […]

Two of my favorite subjects…

Thursday, May 17th, 2007

A friend from class sent along this little gem: Google Wins Appeal on Copyright of Nude Images…
Giggity giggity giggity goo…
But forgetting all the glorious breasts that shall be liberated, it’s always nice to see a higher court come down with a ruling strengthening fair use. Though this is a little concerning:
The appeals court instructed the […]

Color-coded goodness…

Monday, May 7th, 2007

The AACS crack story, not itself substantively interesting, does have pretty fascinating societal undertones. The free speech flag, nothing more than a pure isomorphism of a big ass number, perfectly encodes the now famous encryption key into colors. Is this infringement? If so, how so? Can you even copyright a number; a fact?
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A move is all it takes to snap the traditional telco tether?

Friday, April 27th, 2007

I’m shocked, utterly stunned to learn this:
Telephia’s Total Communications Survey for Q4 2006 shows that 49% of households moving during the fourth quarter of 2006 migrated away from a traditional telephone line with 25% choosing to go wireless only.
I haven’t had a landline in years (since backing into one in college when Verizon wouldn’t let […]

Just how open are Amazon’s clouds?

Wednesday, April 25th, 2007

Dare Obasanjo has a great post up about Amazon’s web platform offerings — S3, an online storage and hosting service, and EC2, a pretty fascinating virtualization platform, or as they describe it:
…a true virtual computing environment, allowing you to use web service interfaces to requisition machines for use, load them with your custom application environment, […]

Microformats on a macro scale…

Friday, April 20th, 2007

I was doing a little reading up on microformats when I found my way to the future service Resolio (or is it Resiolio as in the page title of this sample resume? There’s something magical about funprofessional young startups). It’s refreshing to see another great microformats implementation materializing while the semantic web is still nowhere […]

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