February 2008
Listening to Billy Preston’s genius piano, organ & vocal on Melody [http://snurl.com/melody]. Loud.
Writing a speech; cunningly using asyndeton [http://snurl.com/asyndeton].
Ubuntu brainstorm →
Community feedback site
Waiting for Ubuntu’s new feedback site, Brainstorm [http://brainstorm.ubuntu.com/], to load. Still waiting…
Cool: Kiwi OpenId provider launches [http://openid.net.nz/] (via @MiramarMike)
“I can’t listen to music too often. It makes you want to say stupid, nice things,” V.I. Lenin
Thu 13:58 - All the great ideas have now been posted on the interweb, all that remains is to find them and digg them…
Connect Horokiwi :: broadband to the community →
Clambered up on my high horse for my quixotic tilt at the telcos…
Compiling and installing software from source in... →
Thanks for the words of support @maetl [http://snurl.com/maetl]. I’m impressed at the alarming speed at which you pulled that together…
Clambered up on my high horse for my quixotic tilt at the telcos [http://connecthorokiwi.com/]… It’s not that I don’t have enough to do.
I once ran some seminars on the publishing lifecycle, to get people to think about semantic output. As popular as a carbuncle on your #ss…
Why do policy people feel compelled to share their ideas about brand? It’s like Nepalese talking about surfing…
“The nature of genius is to provide idiots with ideas twenty years later,” Louis Aragon [http://snurl.com/20c6a].
Wondering why broadband is so expensive: it’s not a finite resource, is it?
Paul Graham on Trolls →
“There’s a sort of Gresham’s Law of trolls: trolls are willing to use a forum with a lot of thoughtful people in it, but thoughtful people aren’t willing to use a forum with a lot of trolls in it.”
Digg, Wikipedia, and the myth of Web 2.0 democracy... →
1% of Wikipedia users are responsible for about half of the site’s edits. The site also deploys bots that help standardize format, prevent vandalism, and root out obscenities. This isn’t wisdom of the crowd, it is wisdom of the chaperones.
Early adopters and the strategy gap | NPSC Blog →
The difficulty facing the public sector in adapting to social media is cultural, not technological.
“The Republicans are as wicked as they are stupid, which is saying a great deal,” Bertrand Russell reflected after a trans-Atlantic visit.
Seriously entertaining the thought of giving up blogging. It is not just difficult to work with a 20kb/s connection, it is insulting…
Pew Internet: Early Adopters →
In the early days, most internet users consumed material from websites. These days they are just as likely to produce material. One common refrain is that they think more change lies ahead and they are eager to watch and participate.
Listening to the Catholics while preparing dinner: cooking in here…
Overcoming data friction « Jon Udell →
If the NYC Department of Health had that kind of access layer sitting on top of its database, it wouldnât put EveryBlockâs screen-scraper out of a job, it would just make that job a whole lot more interesting and effective.
Reading @judell’s post on data friction [http://snurl.com/2074k] & agreeing that govt shouldn’t go out of their way; it *is* their way…
Ornette Coleman just blew Wellington away… Just freakin’ awesome.
Off to Roti Chanai for a thali and a beer before Ornette Coleman takes to the stage…
Ornette Coleman plays in Wellington tonight. Ornette Coleman! <thrilled />
Remove DRM from your iTunes library [http://snurl.com/201nz]? Yes, please… Mac version in the pipeline apparently.
S5 Reloaded • Download →
New, shinier, feature packed version of the semantic xhtml presentation tool.
Defending corporate policy in the face of Web 2.0 enthusiasm is a tiresome & unappealing task…
Video: "How to Speak" →
Professor Patrick Winston of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology offers tips on how to give an effective talk
Writing a bio for a conference: always tricky to find the right balance between accurate information & naked self-promotion. Like Twitter?
WikiLeaks, Censorship and the Watchdog Web -... →
New vectors of accountability are an integral part of the social web.
Surfing the web (well, at 20kbps more sort of paddling) trying to find someone to repair my Technics SL10 turntable. <anachronism />
“Erasure is as important as writing.” Quintilian [http://snurl.com/1zsex]
“They were translators, too, our scientists:
they were translating the universe...”
– Les Murray
CJR: Big Fish and Small Fry - review of... →
“Perhaps appropriate broadness of information currently coexists with quasi-monopolistic control because the quasi-monopolies cynically distribute that degree of information to keep their enterprises vibrant and extant, or because minor media and bloggers
Artful Codgers: the forger's art redux →
“After many successful years, and scores of sales, the Greenhalghs were caught out by that old devil hubris. Shaun, deeply impressed by his own talent, forgot that serious chicanery requires careful attention to detail.”
Edge : 'Better than Free' by Kevin Kelly →
“These new eight generatives demand an understanding of how abundance breeds a sharing mindset, how generosity is a business model, how vital it has become to cultivate and nurture qualities that can’t be replicated with a click of the mouse.”
SoSaidThe.Organization » Getting your stacks of... →
“On a completely different note, it’s been a challenge to acquire data from governments. We have been working to request formal data feeds from various agencies, and we’ve run into many roadblocks there, from the political to the technical.”
Good post by @Canuckflack on obstacles developers face getting access to govt data sets [http://snurl.com/1zprf]. If Holovaty struggles…
Flame of God: Top Five Reasons We Can't Let The... →
“Even the atheists don’t agree! Meanwhile, my holy book hasn’t changed at all and is easy to understand. Who needs natural laws when you’ve got God’s law? Nobody, that’s who.”
Laughing out loud reading the Flame of God blog [http://keys-to-hell.blogspot.com/]. Satire should wound like this…
This summer’s hot toy: the Richard Stallman lego figure (a hairy yellow homunculus)…
How To: Download with Newsgroups -... →
Usenet howto
ws Wondering if the webstock bag is the only conference bag that *doesn’t* include a pen. Obsolete tech?
while the northern hemisphere sleeps, webstock rules the twitterverse…
“It’s more important to involve the right people than to make the right decision.” Michael Lopp
Dragged out of webstock by a media issue. Paying the price of not being enough of a geek, I guess…