Wow. You don’t see any of this happening on the right. I’m noticing Democrats/Liberals/Progressives tearing each other to ribbons regularly now. I wonder if it has always been this way, or if this is a relatively new phenominon. Is it simply a case of “Meet the new boss, same as the old boss”?
Author Archives: Karl
Milestones and Shout Outs
Congrats and good wishes to:
Dave who earned his second degree black belt.
Bill who is selling his house. If you’re in the Bay Area, check it out.
Cameron Barrett, one of blogging’s originators, whose blog turns eight.
Shelley who has redesigned Burningbird to be more… conservative.
Garret who has redesigned dangerousmeta! and migrated to the latest WordPress. Correction: – Garret has taken on a new look and feel temporarily while he completes his upgrade.
OSFlash Wiki
OSFlash is a Wiki devoted to open source development with Flash. Tools, libraries and more.
Another Reason I’m A Dog Person
Parasites that infect humans and effect their behavior – carried by cats. Links and discussion at Metafilter.
Flash Experiments
Many fun and interesting Flash sound, motion, and interface compositions to play and open your mind with with at yugop.com, Levitated and Joshua Davis.
A Few Google Map Hacks
O’Reilly: Glenn Letham: Hackers Tap Into the Functionality and Simplicity of Google Maps.
Many fun things to try here.
An Automated Folksonomy Tool
TagCloud:”Essentially, TagCloud searches any number of RSS feed you specify, extracts keywords from the content and lists them according to prevalence within the RSS feeds. Clicking on the tag’s link will
display a list of all the article abstracts associated with that keyword.”
Very, very nice. I gotta check this out. Some nice features we can use for Philly Future.
Report Any Unusual Activities
This poster, seen at train stations between Baltimore and DC on MARC, and uploaded by Articulatory Loop, is downright creepy. View image
Ya Gotta See Sony Data Tiles
A physical object oriented data interface. Interesting and eye opening. Download the mpg movie right here. via ericd.
Yahoo!’s Publisher Guide to RSS
I’m not sure if this is a public url or not, but Yahoo! has a terrific guide on how publishers can use Yahoo! to distribute content. Lots of RSS related tips.
The more I look at this, the more I think Yahoo! intends to compete with Feedburner and BlogAds.
Speaking of Yahoo!, Jeremy Zawodny gives us a real peak at product development at companies like Yahoo! that should be an eye opener for bloggers and journalists alike who are not familiar with how these things happen at large companies (like my own employer).
…I’m going to let you in on a little secret about how products are developed at large companies–even large Internet companies that some people think are fast on their feet.
Larger companies rarely can respond that quickly to each other. It almost never happens. Sure, they may talk a good game, but it’s just talk. Building things on the scale that Microsoft, Google, AOL, or Yahoo do is a complex process. It takes time.
Journalists like to paint this as a rapidly moving chess game in which we’re all waiting for the next move so that we can quickly respond. But the truth is that most product development goes on in parallel. Usually there are people at several companies who all have the same idea, or at least very similar ones. The real race is to see who can build it faster and better than the others.
Think about this the next time a news story makes it sound like Yahoo is trying to one-up Google. Or MSN is “responding” to last week’s launch of a new AOL service.
It’s easy to get caught up in the drama of it all. But reality is often quite different than what you read.
The man tells the truth.