Monthly Archives: September 2008

Some RSS reader ideas

Posted on September 26, 2008 by Karl

Check out Kevin’s thoughts on making RSS easier.

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Congrats to Mat on his first house!

Posted on September 26, 2008 by Karl

Congrats Mat on your new house!

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Live in PA? Sign petition to regulate puppy mills now before too late!

Posted on September 26, 2008 by Karl

Dana has details of the on going fight on her blog, “smallspark” and go direct to savingpuppies.com to sign the petition now.

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Web Development Links for Thursday, September 25th, 2008

Posted on September 25, 2008 by Karl

InfoQ: JSR 311 Final: Java API for RESTful Web Services IBM developerWorks: Mastering Grails: RESTful Grails: Build a resource-oriented architecture InfoQ: Joshua Bloch: Bumper-Sticker API Design Aaron Swartz: The Semantic Web In Breadth Mock Objects: “Growing Object-Oriented Software, Guided by … Continue reading →

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Truth, the Web, and the moral roots of liberals and conservatives

Posted on September 22, 2008 by Karl

Ben Kenobi, when he told Luke, “the truths we cling to are greatly determined by our point of view”, is looking pretty good right now. And as Google is apt to promote the democratization of data rolls on. As a … Continue reading →

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Social Media/Software Links for September 19th, 2008

Posted on September 19, 2008 by Karl

Tim O’Reilly is sounding the alarm – CNet.com: O’Reilly: Stop throwing sheep, do something worthy: “(These are) pretty depressing times in a lot of ways,” O’Reilly said in an address that first had looked like it would simply be a … Continue reading →

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Space Battleship Yamato Theme

Posted on September 19, 2008 by Karl

YouTube: The Port Angeles, WA. High School Mondo-Band!!!!: YouTube: nice version on keyboards:

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Once around the Comcaster way

Posted on September 18, 2008 by Karl

Congrats to Livia Labate on being voted for the IA Institute Board of Directors. Kevin Fitzpatrick posted some good advice: Don’t hide your ideas. Anandhan Subbiah, my manager at CIM, redesigned his blog. And I was Burningbird-ed in reference to … Continue reading →

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Tim Berners-Lee new foundation the W3F is timely

Posted on September 17, 2008 by Karl

The World Wide Web Foundation has a broad scope as described in its one page concept paper, but in short, where the w3c focuses on technologies and interoperability the w3f looks to to focus on technology and society. arstechnica.com: WWW … Continue reading →

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Stack Overflow launches

Posted on September 17, 2008 by Karl

I like what I see at Stack Overflow so far. Growing an online community of any sort can be tricky, but this collaboration engine looks smart. Additional info at Joel Spolksy’s. Hmmm… I might post a Java, Emacs, or Python … Continue reading →

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