Random Articles

• My 11 Favorite Eponymous Laws  Amara’s law — “We tend to overestimate the effect of a technology in the short run and underestimate the effect in the long run”. Brooks’ law: “Adding manpower to a late software project makes it later.” Conway’s Law : “Any piece of software reflects the organizational structure that produced it.” Edwards’ law: “You cannot apply a
• Pruning the Beanstalk - Feedreaders Need to Grow With Us “Odeo will work fine for new subscribers, but as soon as you’ve been subscribed for a few months, it’s impossible to use.” - Michael Mahemoff Michael’s got an excellent point there. If you’ve following my writing, you know I have a similar problem with the 300+ subscriptions in my NetNewsWire (up from 250, up from 200,
• Military Coupe? Let’s Go Shopping After being in Thailand for only a few days I was shocked to read that I had 15 new messages. “Are you okay?” was the common headline. I was eating yogurt with bananas and felt quite fine. I was puzzled by the sudden dramatic concern for my well being. - Brenda
• Where Did I Rant About Truncated Feeds? Mark and Ed pulled me into a web advertising and truncated vs. full feeds conversation. Neither Mark nor I can find any writing/ranting I did on truncated feeds (these days I’m ambivalent - unsubbing is easy enough). If this rings a bell for you, can you put a pointer in the comments. Thanks.
• Shrug The Movie Thanks to Tyler Cowen for passing along word of Atlas Shrugged the Movie. Fun Facts from the previous link: First draft of Part 1’s (of 3 ??!!) script completed and rated 8/10 in ‘philosophical fidelity to the novel’. Angelina Jolie is interested in playing, “the greatest female character in all of literature”, Dagny Taggert. “…everybody has been waiting breathlessly