Author: gregoryheller

<p>I am currently reading [l:http://www.sethgodin.com/purple/|Purple Cow from Seth Godin.] He makes the case that companies need to market to people like me (innovators, early adopters and sneezers) because only we can successfully market their product to mainstream consumers. If you market to the mainstream, no one wants it and there is too much competition. People…

<p>[l:http://www.nten.org/2005-sf-eff|Kevin Bankston] from [lk:eff.org|EFF] gave the keynote presentation at the [lk:nten.org|NTEN Regional in SF on Friday]. His presenation could have been called "Trust No One". It was a wakeup call for anyone who was listening who didn't already think about security. The talk ranged from a background of how we have gotten to where we…

<p>Chris Messina (formerly of [lk:civicspacelabs.org|CivicSpaceLabs] presented on a panel at the [lk:nten.org|NTEN Regional San Francisco] conference called "The Next Generation of Open Source Tools". He was there to talk about [l:http://www.flock.com|Flock], a "social web browser" that he is working on. Flock seems to combine the best of del.icio.us, Outfoxed and blog editing aps like Eckto.</p>…

<p>In "In an age of atomization and social fragmentation it reinforces solipsism and places the individual and that dreaded value 'choice' at the heard of the experience…it encourages people to 'tune-out' while they're occupying social space with others, as if [they] were mere irritations; and it reduces the experience of music, which in my view…

<p>The NYT Week in review ran an interesting article about data privacy today. I have been having ongoing conversatoins with colleagues about this kind of stuff, and was excited to see it so prominently featured in the Times.</p> <p>A few months ago at a conference=, Dan Robinson and I were talking and he asked "Imagine…

<p>[via <a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2005/08/07/opinion/07kristof.html?">When Pigs Wi-Fi – New York Times</a>]:</p> <p><cite>This kind of network is the wave of the future, and eastern Oregon shows that it's technically and financially feasible. New York and other leading cities should be embarrassed that Morrow and Umatilla Counties in eastern Oregon are far ahead of them in providing high-speed Internet…

<p>[via <a href="http://www.robshouse.net/boycott-internet-explorer">Boycott Internet Explorer | RobsHouse.net</a>]:</p> <p><cite>the only thing left to do to get Microsoft to wake up and start respecting its customers and the web developers who have to deal with the crap browser they produce is to boycott Internet Explorer</cite> </p><p>+1</p> <p>which as i learned today, means "Complete Agreement".</p> <p>So i am…

<p>Daniel Shore pointed out on NPR this morning that all the articles on the front page of today's NYT aboce the fold are about Terrorism.</p> <p>As i have been consuming media over the last 2 weeks since the London Bombings, I have been thinking about terrorism and te violence in the world and what we…

<p>[via <a href="http://www.personaldemocracy.com/node/680">Schundler%u2019s Software to Mobilize Other Candidates' Armies | Personal Democracy Forum</a>]:</p> <p><cite>%u201CIf you%u2019re offering a service why would you limit your client base?%u201D he asks rhetorically, asserting, %u201CIt would be foolish to cut out clients solely because of their affiliation.%u201D</cite> </p><p>Hmmmmm Brett, maybe you would limit yourself because you are an ideologically motivated…

<p>[l:http://www.smartmobs.com/archive/2005/07/12/ice_-_whos_on_.html|This is an interesting article about using a mobile phone to store emergency contact information.]</p> <p><cite>[l:http://www.smartmobs.com/archive/2005/07/12/ice_-_whos_on_.html|By entering the acronym ICE – for In Case of Emergency – into the mobile’s phone book, users can log the name and number of someone who should be contacted in an emergency.]</cite></p>