Dean Landolt

Absolutely mesmorizing!

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 […]

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 […]

So I’m back from Riviera Maya [relatively] unscathed. I’ll get some shots up in the gallery soon, but take my word for it, the place was frickin’ beautiful! Whoever designed the layout and grounds of this place is a true artisan. That said, it’s a shame it seems to be run by a bunch of […]

“Obscenity is the crutch of the inarticulate motherfucker.” - cloak42

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 […]

Another goodie from SvN, the advice “Don’t make a post a project”:
Jason F: it’s more important to get this content out there than to put it off further because there’s more to write.
Jason F: So don’t make the post a project
Mark I: Yep, I’ll publish within the next 5 minutes.
Ryan S: takes note on […]

Best. Website. Ever.
I laughed. I cried. I lament not having a digital camera to try and roll my own spin on such a creative idea.
[via SvN]

Am I the only one offended by the word bipartisan? Isn’t it a bit of an over-simplification? Even if we were all republicrats, isn’t there more than two sides to every issue? When describing a measure, this word seems to carry with it a positive connotation of inclusiveness, but it’s all a farce. It suggests […]

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 […]