Does open source free your budget up for the best talent?
I asked her if the choice to go with open source is helping her to keep costs in check, here’s what [Dabble CEO Mary Hodder] said:
What happens with open source is you actually spend the same amount of money, but you don’t have lock-in and [...]
I might watch more TV if I didn’t live in the US. Well, I used to like watching World’s Wildest Police Chases on Spike while knocking back a few at the bar after work, but they re-arranged the schedule a while back and it’s just not the same. So clearly I have to sit around [...]
Principality of Sealand, a WWII-era gunnery platform called Roughs Tower, in the North Sea outside Britain?s pre-1968 three nautical mile claim of sovereign waters, is for sale.
Yep, the ?land? declared by some as the world’s smallest micronation will go to the highest bidder. Ravage by fire (2006), beset by marauders (1978), and generally ignored by [...]
Right there are the beginning of Esther Dyson’s ten-year-old book, Release 2.1, she alerts us to the Web 2.0 challenge we’re we’re now beginning to understand:
The challenge for us all is to build a critical mass of healthy communities on the Net and to design good basic rules for its public spaces so that larger [...]
ALA Midwinter 2007, ALCTS Future of Cataloging presentation: Collaboration, Not Competition. (slides: QuickTime & PDF.)
Stir my writings on The Google Economy and Arrival of the Stupendous post with frame four of the ALCTS And The Future Of Bibliographic Control: Challenges, Actions, And Values document:
In the realm of advanced digital applications, we are interested in collaboration, [...]
ALA Midwinter 2007, ALCTS Cataloging Norms Discussion Group presentation: Metadata and faceted searching: an implementation report based on WPopac. (slides: QuickTime & PDF.)
Faceted searching such as that made possible by WPopac (look for the new name soon) improves the usability of our systems and findability of our materials, but also puts new demands on how [...]
The above circulated a while ago, but I post it today to recognize this special ALA Midwinter edition of Casual Fridays. And while I’m not suggesting libraries will or should become 21st century dance halls, Lichen’s title, ?1.0 -> 2.0, the video? has some resonance here.
And on the theme of music videos that tell stories [...]
Okay, before anybody inquires if I’ve gone into boat sales or brings up the BisonBoom story again, I need to ask for your understanding. It’s not that I’ve been spending my days trying to pick out just the right shade of red for my new Corvette (really I’m not, it’s the Lotus I like), or [...]
Matty discovered jQuery at The Ajax Experience, and his enthusiasm has rubbed off on me.
jQuery makes coding JavaScript fun again. Well, at least it makes it possible to write code and content separately. And that means that sweet AJAXy pages can be made more easily, and it sort of forces designers to make them accessible [...]
I’ve been loving the PES films I found via this Design Observer post, and despite featuring his films for Christmas day and new year’s eve, there’s still a lot to see.
Animated peanut butter is about as cool as it gets, even if I can sympathize with the peanut here in Drowning Nut.
Casual Friday extras that [...]
I’m lazy, that’s all I can say to explain why I hadn’t put any serious thought into upgrading from the 1.3.x version of Apache that ships with Mac OS X to the much more feature rich 2.0.x or 2.2.x. But today I found reason enough to switch my development to 2.2.3, and I went looking [...]
The holidays are long since past, here’s a drink to carry you through ’till Spring.
Rusty Nail
3 parts Scotch
1 part Drambuie
Serve over ice in an old fashioned glass.
Please enjoy it responsibly.
Thanks to MetaFilter for pointing this out, and Matty, for putting it to good use.
Yes, you really can use this to make authoritative looking reports on anything.
esolutions, lies, statistics, data, pirates, ninjas, bullshit
