April 5, 2008
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NY Times covers bloggorrhea sufferers
In Web World of 24/7 Stress, Writers Blog Till They Drop, headlines the New York Times. “They work long hours, often to exhaustion. Many are paid by the piece — not garments, but blog posts. This is the digital-era sweatshop”, it begins. It’s about blogging for bucks. Marc Orchant and Russell Shaw, both of whom… Continue reading
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The (be)low cost airline
Blog here says Skybus, which for awhile had $10 fares, has cratered. Continue reading
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Nice recipe
Ben Laurie points to stpeter’s invite to moosh together Jabber/XMPP, OpenID, Oauth and the Web. Sounds tasty to me. Continue reading
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Worthwhile Workshops
The best conferences aren’t conferences at all. They’re workshops. Meaning, work gets done there. Things move forward. Barns get raised. Or razed to make way for better barns. And all those things are subjects chosen by the participants, which for conferences would be called “attendees” or “the audience”. At workshops, everybody contributes. This is the… Continue reading