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 [...]

Posted January 28, 2007 by Casey Bisson
Categories: Libraries & Networked Information, Politics & Controversy, Technology. Tags: challenge, communities, community, esther dyson, release 2.0, release 2.1, web 2.0, web20. Be the first one.

It’s hard to be angry with Flickr about unexpected downtime when they post funny things like this.
For my part, this is more than just an excuse to link to DJ Ted Stevens’ Internet Song (yeah, “the internet is a series of tubes”), it’s an excuse to point out how Flickr apparently knows how to speak [...]

Posted July 20, 2006 by Casey Bisson
Categories: Libraries & Networked Information, Politics & Controversy, Questionable...funny. Pointless., Technology. Tags: challenge, downtime, error message, flickr, funny, language, libraries, ted stevens, the internet is a series of tubes, tubes. 2 Comments.

Jonathan Schwartz made the kind of news that makes Slash Dotters happy: he announced Sun is (sort of) giving away free servers. It’s a promotion, a media play, of course, but one that might make a few lucky people very happy.
Here’s the deal: Sun is really proud of their new T2000 eight core server. Each [...]

Posted February 26, 2006 by Casey Bisson
Categories: Libraries & Networked Information, Technology. Tags: 8core, 9.6ghz, big db, challenge, coolthreads, free, free server, Jonathan Schwartz, performance, server, solaris, sparc, sun, t2000, try and buy, try-n-buy, ultrasparc, wpopac. 9 Comments.

I wasn’t really in the game, but when samb posted the above picture of David Brown’s typical meal, I couldn’t help but take it as a challenge. I never did get around to snapping a picture to match samb’s, and now I’ve got accept that there are others with more skill and determination than me.
Slashfood [...]

Posted January 28, 2006 by Casey Bisson
Categories: Questionable...funny. Pointless., Style, Fashion and Food. Tags: 100x100, 20x20, 75x75, burger, burgers, challenge, fast food, hamburger, hamburgers, in-n-out, in-n-out burger, outsized, oversize, ridiculous. Be the first one.

For those people still using Gallery, here’s the last straw: Rasmus Lerdorf got to playing with the Flickr API and quickly wrote up a script to migrate his photos from Gallery to Flickr. He’s didn’t post a script or anything, he’s just saying it’s easy to do.
A lot of things are easy to do, of [...]

Posted January 4, 2006 by Casey Bisson
Categories: Technology. Tags: challenge, flickr, flickr api, gallery, photo management, prize. 11 Comments.

Rochelle worries that all this Library 2.0 talk is lost on her library. Ross tells us why he hates the Library 2.0 meme and Dan reminds us it’s not about buzzwords. But Michael is getting closest to a point that’s been troubling me for a while: Library 2.0 isn’t about software, it’s about libraries. It’s [...]

Posted December 2, 2005 by Casey Bisson
Categories: Libraries & Networked Information, Technology. Tags: art, challenge, future, libraries, library, library 2.0, library20, photography, web 2.0, web20. 16 Comments.