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Technology Weblogging

More important stuff

After phone call with friend, I am calmer. Sort of. Enough to spend time on more important things. Such as wishing Mark Pilgrim half-a-Happy Birthday!. He’s 29.5 today. (Mark, I have a clue for you — when you hit 40, you start celebrating birthdays biennially, rather than semiannually.) Secondly, Jeneane asked folks to link to her co-worker’s weblog. […]

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Just Shelley Weblogging

And another shot…

Recovered from the Wayback Machine. Just in case my previous posting doesn’t piss enough people off at me – and it will – may I pass on to you this link to an entire page that the person known as The Head Lemur has written because I expressed my opinion about realtime blogging. Shelley Powers wants to be the […]

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Political

Perspective, it’s all perspective

Today in SF Gate an article regarding the pro-Palestinian/pro-Israel clash at SFSU that I’ve covered in previous postings: San Francisco State University police asked the district attorney’s office Thursday to prosecute three students accused of hate crimes during a campus clash between pro-Israel and pro-Palestinian groups. … In a strongly worded letter distributed on campus on May […]

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Weblogging

Pay attention!

Recovered from the Wayback Machine. Sometimes I agree with Dave Winer, other times I don’t, and boy do I disagree with him and his concept of realtime blogging. Consider this — you’re a speaker who has spent days carefully crafting a presentation, rehearsing it, creating the presentation materials, and so on. You step up to the […]

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Technology

Defining P2P

In P2P, a peer both provides and consumes services. A group of peers can then provide and consume services to and from each other without dependence on any one server. With this understanding, there’s an assumption that this consumption and distribution occurs when the peer is connected. Within some P2P enabled applications, the communication may be […]