BurningbirdRecovered from the Wayback Machine. Doc Searls points to a weblog post by the Guardian Unlimited’s Lloyd Shepherd on DRM and says it’s one of the most depressing things he’s read. Shepherd wrote: I’m not going to pick a fight with the Cory Doctorows of the world because they’re far more informed and cleverer than me, but let’s […]
Knowing my interest in New Orleans and the history of the area, a friend sent me a link to a thoughtful, intelligent, and well written alternative approach to rebuilding the city: Rethinking, Then Rebuilding New Orleans by Richard Spark. I’ll return to this writing later in an essay on this subject I’m currently writing, but today I […]
Microsoft has released a patch for the WMF bug ahead of schedule. Per Ken Camp: Microsoft Security Bulletin MS06-001 Vulnerability in Graphics Rendering Engine Could Allow Remote Code Execution (912919) Published: January 5, 2006 Version: 1.0 Summary Who should read this document: Customers who use Microsoft Windows Impact of Vulnerability: Remote Code Execution Maximum Severity Rating: […]
Recovered from the Wayback Machine. Kevin Marks: I’ve said before that the net is large, and contains multitudes, and thus what you find in it is what you look for. Like Caliban, raging at your reflection is counterproductive. Dave Rogers finds hierarchies. David Weinberger finds collaborators. Shelley Powers finds, er, something that she disapproves of. Yup, that’s the […]
Recovered from the Wayback Machine. Several people have been involved in a discussion around the question: do links subvert hierarchies. It started with Doc Searls (Linkers page). Then Dave Rogers comments (Linkers page), kicking off the following flurry of cross-weblog linking: Original Mike Warot (Linkers Page) Wirearchy (Linkers Page) David Weinberger (Linkers Page) Sean Coon (Linkers Page) Mark Bernstein (Linkers Page) Forthcoming (Linkers Page) Indefinite […]