BurningbirdI find myself in agreement with Dave Winer and Marc Cantor about O’Reilly’s Web 2.0 conference, but maybe not for the same reasons. I don’t have a problem with a more traditional presentation format, but Web 2.0 sounds, frankly, closed door and elitist. It seems like Tim O’Reilly is forgetting his open source, just plain folks roots. What is it lately […]
Surety be damned, the hell if I’m going to see women made the scapegoats for Abu Ghraib. We’ve gone from this incident being one of frat boy behavior (and supposedly harmless) to blaming it all on women. My first reaction is: Since when did President Bush get a sex change operation? Buck stops at the top, people. Buck stops […]
While working on my next LAMP post, my thoughts drifted to those who are interested in using open source weblogging tools, but don’t want to play with the technology. After all, weblogging is about writing. I think it is. Isn’t it? Another alternative to learning about LAMP and managing your own software updates is to […]
I was going to write another LAMP essay tonight, but my mind isn’t in it, and I think I’d rather work on the books, instead. But I did want to mention that you can see Textpattern in action with a couple of people who are moving from Movable Type to this new weblogging tool. Steve […]
L is for Linux When you’re writing for a large audience–you are a large audience, aren’t you?–you can’t predict what level of knowledge your readers have, so you have to pick a point to start, and then hope you won’t either overwhelm the less knowledgeable, or bore to death the experienced. With a book this […]