November 16, 2007
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Human flying squirrels
I don’t know any other way to describe this. Wow. How long before that shows up in a James Bond movie? [Later…] That’s a wingsuit they’re wearing. Perhaps this is the next step. Continue reading
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Chumby love
Still don’t have a Chumby here, but Dave has one, which is seriously cool, because fun hacking is bound to happen on it. (As some has already.) I covered the Chumby before it came out, here in the September Linux Journal. Now that I know it’s out in the world, I’ve invited LJ readers to… Continue reading
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Knowing the answer is good. Building it is better.
The Economist asks, Will Facebook, MySpace and other social-networking sites transform advertising? Third paragraph in, there is this: Messrs Lazarsfeld and Katz, of course, assumed that most of these conversations and their implicit marketing messages would remain inaudible. That firms might be able to eavesdrop on this chatter first became conceivable in the 1990s,… Continue reading
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Overheard
I was interviewed by Aaron Strout yesterday, about many things. The podcast is up. Continue reading
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Question du jour
Can VRM fix DRM? I’ve visited this before, in A Public Market for Public Music. Continue reading
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Gang up
The latest Gillmor Gang is up at Facebook. Not sure if I was in that one. Still, if you can get into the Faceo, it’s there. Continue reading
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Sailing the relation ship
Over in the ProjectVRM blog, CRM gets personal. Before reading The Ajatus Manifesto, and visiting the Ajatus project site (thanks to pointage by Zak Greant) I hadn’t thought that was possible, or even worth considering, because CRM seems to be such a corporate thing. But why should it be? Bonus linkage: manifestos back manifestos. Continue reading