“…the way we can best improve our environment is to make everyone rich enough to afford it (something that is already happening)…” – Will Franklin In 1989, I watched, stunned, at James Burke’s PBS special “After the Warming”. That was my first exposure to environmentalist propaganda; oceans rising flooding Florida and Indonesia – hundreds of …
Monthly Archives: April 2008
Twitter: 10% Conversational
I ran my twitterings through TweetClouds today. Check out all the ‘@’ signs – indicating people that I’m directing messages toward, either in a reply or a “I think you’ll dig this.” A full 10% of the tags.
Google AppEngine: More About Google Labs than You?
There’s a long history of tech companies developing there own applications because it’s cheaper long-term than licensing, especially for core applications like: email, calendaring, text processing. I’m confident Apple employee use Mail.app, iCal, and iWork in-house and those apps are cheap or free for the rest of use. Same for Sun and StarOffice/NeoOffice. Same for …
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Free & Open Is Its Own Lock-in
A decade ago, one of the very first places I found that offering free websites gave everyone access to the same images directory. You could upload your own images, but then everyone else could use them as well. Goofy, questionable, but free. I’ve been hosting with Joyent for more than 3 years, purchased 3 different …