BurningbirdGary Turner: Maybe this is when it all unfurls and collapses in on itself, blogging having been completely consumed and repurposed by a cabal of MSM and faux-hip-and-late-to-the-party-but-hell-let’s-trash-it-anyway PR bods – and blogging’s core hacker ethic is finally sullied beyond sauvage after one too many commercial pisses in the proverbial punchbowl.
Recovered from the Wayback Machine. Dave Winer has been talking about retirement. Perhaps he really should. This is about as ugly as it can get in this environment. This is what happens, too, when someone with power and money, like Winer, can tromp all over another who has less of both, and get away with it […]
I recently upgraded my Dell laptop to Windows XP — the last upgrade for this particular computer until it needs to be turned into a pure Linux machine. As such, I could download the IE 7 beta. The very positive aspect of IE is the fact that PNG images actually work with this browser now, […]
Related to the Kicking Butt panel, an audience member who made reference to her long blond hair and pretty dress wrote an original response basically calling all the panel members lesbians because they were wearing pants and had short hair. She has since edited this out after a couple of panel members and one of […]
Recovered from the Wayback Machine. I hesitated to mention the “Whose Butt should we be kicking” panel at SxSW until I saw more detail on the session. Thankfully, Dru Blood provided a fairly detailed liveblogging of the event. It was a mistake for SxSW to keep this session once the original panel broke up. There was a […]