Gregory Heller

Month: October 2005

  • Bush: God Told Me to Invade Iraq

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    <p>File this under "Really scary"</p> <p>[via <a href="http://www.commondreams.org/headlines05/1007-03.htm">Bush: God Told Me to Invade Iraq</a>]:</p> <p><cite>former Palestinian foreign minister Nabil Shaath says Mr Bush told him and Mahmoud Abbas, former prime minister and now Palestinian President: "I'm driven with a mission from God. God would tell me, 'George, go and fight those terrorists in Afghanistan.' And…

  • The NYt on networking Networking

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    gregoryheller

    <p>First saw this over on [l:http://www.smartmobs.com/archive/2005/10/08/companies_are_d.html|SmartMOBs]</p> <p>[via <a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2005/10/05/technology/techspecial/05lohr.html?ex=1286164800&en=4dc6d8b6e7e6e2b1&ei=5088&partner=rssnyt&emc=rss">Networking: A Special Section – New York Times</a>]:</p> <p><cite>in the next wave [of technology inovation and adoption], companies are embracing the potential of networked computing to let workers share their knowledge more efficiently as they nurture new ideas, new products and new ways to digitally automate all…

  • Identity Workshop

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    <p><a href="http://www.oreillynet.com/pub/a/policy/2005/10/07/identity-workshop.html">Identity 2.0 Gathering: Getting to the Promised Land</a> by Kaliya Hamlin — The "identity gang" (Doc Searls, Phil Windley, Drummond Reed, and Kaliya Hamlin) has been meeting informally at tech conferences during the past year, but the time has arrived for diving deeper into the different proposed protocols (and the philosophies behind how their…

  • iPod Linux!

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    gregoryheller

    <p>It is raining here in New York City. So I decided to upgrade my iPod software, completely restore the devise (removing all my music) and install [l:http://ipodlinux.org/Main_Page|iPod Linux]! I was daunted at first, only because i skipped over the part about [lk:ipodlinuxinstl.sourceforge.net|the gui installer] and tried to use some command line mojo (which if you…

  • Open Source: Now It's an Ecosystem

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    gregoryheller

    <p>[via <a href="http://www.businessweek.com/technology/content/oct2005/tc2005103_0519_tc_218.htm">Open Source: Now It's an Ecosystem</a>]:</p> <p><cite>A new open-source ecosystem is emerging. While a big push is on to develop more applications, the movement is much broader: Tech-services companies are popping up to jump-start adoption of all of this open-source software. </cite> </p><p>This is an interesting article about venture capital and open source…

  • "Holy Web2.0 Batman!" Next Up: Google Office?

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    gregoryheller

    <p>[via <a href="http://www.internetnews.com/dev-news/article.php/3553371" target="_blank">Next Up: Google Office?</a>]:</p> <p><cite>Google already offers Gmail users plenty of storage for their e-mail archives. If it extended that storage to other kinds of documents that were generated in conformance with the OpenDocument standard, and then combined that with a Web-based productivity suite to connect users to their stored information via…

  • Hit and Run

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    <p>[via <a href="http://www.reason.com/hitandrun/2005/10/corporate_socia.shtml">Hit and Run</a>]:</p> <p><cite>In our October ish, we had Whole Foods CEO John Mackey duking it out with Milton Friedman and Cypress Semiconductor CEO (and Blessed Nun Basher) TJ Rodgers about the social responsibility of business. In today's Wash Post, columnist Steve Perlstein namechecks that "spirited debate" and then weighing into the fray…

  • "It's Not Sexy Being Green (yet)"

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    gregoryheller

    <p>[l:http://www.nytimes.com/2005/10/02/fashion/sundaystyles/02conserve.html|This article] ran in the Sunday Style Section of the NYT. Just another subtle way that conservation is almost mocked as a means to alleviate our environmental and energy woes– it is not a real news story, rather a story about how conservation needs to be made sexy. An interesting article none the less, makes…

  • "More Than Business as Usual"

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    <p><cite>[l:http://www.commarts.com/ca/coldesign/johE_289.html|Why form a cooperative? One argument is that organizations owned by the communities they serve are more accountable, and can emphasize service over profit. When employees govern their own workplace, they can design a happier, stable and more equitable work environment.]</cite></p> <p><cite>[l:http://www.commarts.com/ca/coldesign/johE_289.html|But there’s also the value of organizing according to one’s ideals. Though we are…

  • Anytown, USA

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    <p>I recently spent an afternoon in Baltimore MD. I was near the [l:http://www.aqua.org|aquarium], and looking around, I commented that with an ESPN Zone, Barnes & Noble, Chipotle a "national attraction" like the aquarium, and a waterfront view…. I could have been anywhere: South Street Sea Port in NY, Navy Pier in Chicago, Fisherman's Warf in…