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Diversity Technology

Coders-only-club strikes again

Recovered from the Wayback Machine. Catching up on reading tonight, I stumbled over the following at Mark Pilgrim’s:   On a side note, remember that flap just before the holidays about the Coders-Only Club? Well, look at it this way: some people have strong opinions about the way computers should work. Other people have strong opinions about […]

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Technology

Apple’s open core

As happened last year with the Macworld conference, you might as well bag writing about anything else because this week will be Apple, Apple, Apple. Two big stories — a newer, longer TiBook and Safari, Apple’s entry into the browsing market. I liked some features of the new TiBook such as the backlit keyboard, which I think […]

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Technology

Tiny Steps and Big Leaps

Recovered from the Wayback Machine. Challenged by Clay Shirky, Ben Hammersley has created a special post to collect trackbacks related specifically to the LazyWeb. What is the LazyWeb? Well, do you have an idea and need help with technical implementation? Do you need specific functionality or an application or utility, but you’re not a coder? Capture the idea […]

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Technology

Working on Techie Stuff

Recovered from the Wayback Machine. What’s particularly rough about this post is a link to a discussion thread I had with Aaron Swartz. Because of legal issues, Aaron committed suicide ten years later— an incredible loss to us all. I just wish we had told him more how important he was to all of us.  […]

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Technology Weblogging

The story of the RSS feeds and the little CC license that could

Recovered from the Wayback Machine. Again the consideration of exactly what it means to put an RSS feed online has reared its head. Specifically, Mitch Wagner found out that his RSS feed — which includes full posting content not excerpts — was re-published online at LiveJournal. He wrote:   That site is my intellectual property. You do […]