I just learned of the push for POSH over at Standardzilla — short for Plain Old Semantic HTML. Why the hell do we need another idiomatic acronym clogging web2.0’s tubes? I certainly agree microformats are the future, but why go with something that sounds even more ridiculous than AJAX? What we need are more entertaining […]
I’ve never quite understood academia, particularly the ins and outs of how money changes hands. But alas, for reasons unknown, I’m still compelled to become part of this tribally backward community. The one thing I do grasp is that reputation is the very pulse that drives this economy of dunces, particularly with respect to publishing. […]
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, […]
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 […]
Interesting take from Hugh Macleod of gapingvoid…
As we move from proprietary to open worlds, we are seeing another transition. The customer is becoming the partner. And not a day too soon.
He’s got a tough road ahead of him, and good luck to him. Let’s hope this kind of fresh perspective can rub off on his […]
A friend of mine is off to the Peace Corps in a few months and we were having a conversation about what she should bring. It’s almost a certainty she’ll end up in a remote village in Mauritania (that’s right — I had to look it up too). It’s likely she’ll be without power except […]
…with WordPress!
It’s only been a day, give or take, but I think it’s the real deal. Granted, I’ve had a tendency in the past to fall too fast for my CMS choices only to be heartbroken by their deficiencies later…
But this time, I think it’s for real <3
With some talk fermenting about the web2.0 momentum starting to slide, it’s nice to see some sound ReSTful thinking in the enterprise space (courtesy of Pete Lacey). I’d just as soon written it off as a lost cause, but it looks like sanity may yet enter the web services world. Just maybe, something like Pete’s […]
I’d like to know why the Vox Question of the Day isn’t ever “what do you hate about Vox?”
Dave Winer had a pretty interesting idea:
Start with a two-person video crew, like Andrew and Joanne, in New York, and every Tuesday, rain or shine, go to Times Square and interview 20 or 30 people, asking a […]
I was just putting the final touches on what, in my own mind at least, was a pretty well thought out argument against this myth of “information overload” and why I’m about fed up hearing about how hard it is to find quality information online when I was bitten by the irony bug. Here I […]
A good friend of mine is about to get his hands on a new laptop. He’s an interesting case — late twenties and zero computer experience. He’s an intelligent guy, more than capable with his hands, a quick learner. As a tradesman, he never bothered with college so he never really needed a computer for […]
I finally found the time to do a little following up on ProjectVRM (if you haven’t heard of it, it’s worth reading up on). Doc Searls has a great article up on VRM and a public commons — or more specifically, a more efficient market for getting support. The general idea is simple, but Doc’s […]
It’s been almost since my last post. Why so damn long? I’m busy as hell — but that’s a post for a different day. What dragged me out of hibernation was a post by a friend of mine about cable competition, or lack thereof, in MoCo — a subject I’m painfully familiar with.
So Montgomery County, […]
Around the time Google was kicking YouTube’s tires, I wrote up a long, involved post about what I thought of the potential merger. Like most of what I write, it ended up getting a little convoluted and was relegated to the circular file. The general theme of it was that maybe — just maybe […]
I’m constantly reminded of how poor a writer I am in my constant struggles to finish original work (a forthcoming series on Vendor Relationship Management I’ve been trying to pen for a month now is a good example). There’s something about a blank canvas — I’m just a deer in the headlights.
For my only class […]
I’m a regular Cato@Liberty lurker but I’ve been buried in work and have been a little slow clearing out my feed reader’s backlog. I just came across ‘Net Wars, a Tom Firey post regarding the upcoming network neutrality debate. He started out with a solid summary, but once I read the analysis, I couldn’t believe […]
It sure doesn’t feel like Spring on the east coast, but the new Spring semester began yesterday. Like the last few semesters, I’m taking the painfully heavy course load of three credit hours. It’s true, I’m lazy. I don’t know when I’ll ever finish this masters, but I sure won’t strain myself to get there!
Conveniently, […]
I was reading an old blog entry by Paul Stamatiou earlier about The Web App Revolution, and it definitely got me thinking. I keep hearing people make these proclamations about how certain desktop apps are just aren’t suitable to be web apps, how they’re just ‘too much’ for a browser to handle. I’ve always had […]
For as long as I can remember, I’ve been managing my own mail and mail server, and just using Outlook as the mail client. Over the years I’ve become increasingly frustrated with Outlook’s bloat, and I haven’t exactly been too impressed with what the other groupware clients have to offer. On top of that, the […]
So I’ve been looking for a nice, easy solution to the photo storage/sharing problem people like my mother face. Over a year ago when I started evaluating this stuff, the best I could really come up with was the open source PHP script MG2. It’s a really beautiful piece of software, requires no db or […]
It’s not that I don’t understand the point of social sites, I’ve just always perceived the social aspects of web2.0 as a means to whatever ends a given web app is trying to accomplish. That, and I’ve yet to find a featureful one done in a tasteful manner. I’d read about Vox in a TechCrunch […]