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Technology Weblogging

The John Robb non-debate

I received an email about my weblog postings related to the non-debate about open source with John Robb. The person thought I was “silly” for calling John Robb a Suit, among other things. I thought I would repeat his email here, sans his name. Note to folks — you want to slam my weblog postings, […]

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Writing

Word for the day

At least there’s some gold in the weblogging dross — Sharon I bet that word for the day today is hearken, but you kind of gave us that one. And holler if you need help with your comments. Dross: My word for the day.

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Just Shelley

Me and computers

When I was a child living in a town about as far away from any city as you could get in the United States, a friend of my Mom’s who shared an interest in science with me used to give me his Popular Science magazines to read. I loved those magazines, particularly reading about the […]

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Weblogging

Debate

I wonder what ever happened to debate? Or disagreement? Or even getting pissed at another person and coming out swinging — in writing that is. Weblogging is a natural forum for debate: Person A says something that person B doesn’t like, Person B responds, Person A counter-responds, and the weblog readers add comments or sit […]

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Web

Bay area layoffs

Recovered from the Wayback Machine. SF Gate, one of my favorite daily reads (must add them to my list) had a week long series of articles on the past year from a San Francisco business perspective, including layoffs, dot-com failures, real estate hitting the skids in San Francisco and so on. It’s an excellent review […]