Danny Ayers points to a Jon Udell article about dynamic documentation managed by the folks who use a product, rather than relying on stuffy old material provided by the organization making the software. In it, Jon writes: Collectively, we users know a lot more about products than vendors do. We eventually stumble across every undocumented feature or quirk. […]
Author: Shelley Powers
Good news bad news
The Good News is: The trackback and comment spammers couldn’t get through while my ISP was under DDoS attack this evening.
Distributed digital IDs
Like others interested in digital IDs, I’ve been looking at LID and hope to install it this weekend, maybe tonight. I’m interested in any system that’s decentralized, as LID appears to be. However, I want to take a closer look before I make any assumptions of the mechanics of the approach. More later, after I have a […]
Forbidden photos
I didn’t venture far for a walk today, not after several days of rain followed by a freeze. Whatever areas I would hike that aren’t at threat for flood, are at threat for rock falls. But I did get out for the first time in five days for a walk around Powder and it felt good. I noticed […]
So
Recovered from the Wayback Machine. When my roommate came home tonight, I asked him if he’d heard that Six Apart might buy LiveJournal. “Six who, buy live what?”, he asked. “Six Apart and LiveJournal.” “Who or what are Six Apart and LiveJournal.” “They’re weblogging companies. Well, to be more precise, Six Apart is a weblog company, […]
