The Zeitgeist

I’ve not been paying much attention to this whole Storm BotNet / virus thing b/c I am on a Mac, and, as everyone knows, us snotty holier-than-thou Mac users don’t really have to worry much about the crud that infects the Windows universe… however when a virus threatens to become (or may already be) the [...]

Like just about everyone I was hitting the refresh button on my browser as today’s Apple Special Event unfolded. The refresh of the iPod line was a “given,” but i didn’t actually expect them to intro a WiFi-based iPod based on OSX today (even though it’s been rumoured for weeks).
I think this is [...]

We were on vacation for a couple of weeks in the San Francisco bay area, and I, along with ~10 others, got courtesy of HP and led by HP’s Archivist Anna Mancini, a private tour during BarCampBlock of the Birthplace of Silicon Valley at the garage where Hewlett and Packard started HP in [...]

How McCarthy-esque. How terribly predicable. How silly, sad, and ultimately cowardly…
1) Linus is right, Microsoft needs to put up or shut up.
2) As a shareholder (yes, some of my mutual funds hold Microsoft stock) I am appalled that Microsoft would appear to violate several SEC (to say nothing of Sarbanes-Oxley) rules which preclude [...]

Wow… Great article, and, sadly, pretty much correct when it comes to the delivery of Infrastructure.

Is software development all about putting together lots of other people’s code? Is there any real engineering and invention left to be done in mainstream applications?
That seems to be the debate at the world’s first Conference on Postmodern Programming recently held at the end of this past November in London sponsored by the Software [...]

It’s time for a new meme. I’ve been thinking about the all-too-pervasive acronym-cum-interjection “WTF?!”
In case you’ve been off-planet for a while, “WTF” is often applied where its situationally incorrect to actually say “What the Fuck?” I think is got its origin in a line from the (when Tom Cruise was still interesting) film [...]

I am glad to see that Doc Searls was interested enough in my recent blog entry to revisit an old topic of Internet access and corporate control. At the end of his commentary he wonders if with all the depressing news he’s insane to be be optimistic. I don’t think so, at [...]

In next week’s issue (available online now) of <a href=”http://www.thenation.com/doc/20060213/chester”> The Nation</a>, Jeff Chester has a peice on the upcoming Balkanization plans for the Internet, courtesy of the phone/media companies.
According to Chester, “<em>Industry planners are mulling new subscription plans that would further limit the online experience, establishing “platinum,” “gold” and “silver” levels of Internet access [...]

Back in the late June of 2003, I wrote the following piece in response to one of Doc Searls’ weblog entries on the robustness of the Internet called “World of Ends” …
I took a lot of heat back then for what some called “baiting” Doc and David (which I wasn’t doing, I was just pointing [...]