by gregoryheller | Oct 9, 2005 | Uncategorized
<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 I did, and then God would tell me, 'George go and end the tyranny in Iraq,' and I did."</cite> </p><p>So aparently, George misunderstood, god told <i>him</i> to go and fight these battles. God did not tell him "George, send your armies filled with young men and women, to go fight on your behalf, I command you." No, Mr. President, if God told <i>you</i> to go and fight, then you should go and...
by gregoryheller | Oct 9, 2005 | Uncategorized
<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 sorts of tasks.</cite> </p><p><cite>Corporations are rapidly adopting software tools intended to nurture collaborative work, including wikis, blogs, instant messaging, Web-based conferencing and peer-to-peer programs.</cite></p> <p><cite>So far, economists say that only a fraction of the cost-cutting opportunity from networked computing has been captured.</cite></p> <p>Good stuff to see in print in the times. At [lk:civicactions.com|CivicActions] we use wikis every day to track progress on projects and build an ever expanding knowledge base for our team. We will likely ramp up our internal developer blogs soon to create yet another avenue for retaining and sharing information about what we are doing and how we are doing it.</p> <p>The Times is absolutely correct, if companies are going to survive and thrive, they are going to need to embrace these new technologies and the openness that they...
by gregoryheller | Oct 9, 2005 | Uncategorized
<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 architects built them). Kaliya, a.k.a. Identity Woman, shares her perspective on identity and invites people to join her and the rest of the gang at the Internet Identity Workshop, October 26-27, in Berkeley, California.</p> <p>If I wasn't just getting back from Amsterdam and possibly going down to New Orleans, you would be seeing me at this workshop. If you are in the bay area, and are into technoloigy, the web and privacy, it is probably a good event to hit. Kaliya is...
by gregoryheller | Oct 8, 2005 | Uncategorized
<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 know me, you would know was not a very good idea. GUIs are my friend). The whole operation took only a few minutes. Now i have new games, a numeric batter level indicator, and some other really neat abilities like easily recording audio (wav) using a mike plugged into the headphone...
by gregoryheller | Oct 6, 2005 | Uncategorized
<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 software development from Business Week. Both [lk:nonecknoel.com|Noel] and my father pointed this article out to...
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