IBM developerWorks: Documenting software architecture, Part 1: What software architecture is, and why it’s important to document it
IBM developerWorks: The architecture of Web applications
Author Archives: Karl
Social Software Links: The Future of the Web Edition
Gabor Cselle: “The Future of Email” Talk in Sydney
Identity Management Manifesto: via robert_francis
Burningbird: This Week’s Semantic Web, Burningbird style
Waxy.org: Memeorandum Colors: Visualizing Political Bias with Greasemonkey
slacktivist: They need help: Information — facts, reality, the rebuttal and debunking of lies — is one kind of help that the captives of unreality need. That information is necessary, but not sufficient, for those who have chosen their own captivity. What else is necessary, and what might be sufficient to help them choose not to make that choice, is something I want to continue exploring.
Social Software Links: Activism and Privacy Edition
Penny Arcade! posted a comic that summarizes what many think of online anonymity and the Internet: John Gabriel’s Greater Internet Fuckwad Theory: Normal Person + Anonymity + Audience = Total Fuckwad.
Up until the past few weeks, I would have agreed. But now I am starting to adopt a more nuanced view.
I don’t want to get into what has triggered the change of heart, and no – I am not anonymously blogging – my name lends credibility that I am not willing to trade. However, I have come to realize there are those who need to be able to speak out, and without anonymity cannot do so.
It’s confusing subject matter, so here are a few links of various viewpoints:
CNet: U.N. agency eyes curbs on Internet anonymity
Business Week: Busting a Rogue Blogger: Troll Tracker has been unmasked as a patent lawyer for Cisco. Now they’re both facing litigation
SSRN: Anonymous Blogging and Defamation: Balancing Interests of the Internet: It is important not to silence communication on the Internet, but it is just as important not to silence victims of defamation. Therefore, this comment argues for the protection of libel plaintiffs facing defamatory comments from anonymous bloggers.
Media Bloggers Association: Announces Libel Insurance For Bloggers – huge news for those who intend to pursue acts of journalism independently.
Must See Video: Hope2604 – Steve Rambam Pt 1 – Privacy Is Dead – Get Over It
Must See Video: Hope2604 – Steve Rambam Pt 2 – Privacy Is Dead – Get Over It
Wired.com: ‘Anonymous’ Member Unmasked, Charged With Web Attack on Scientology
Bruce Schneier: Essays and Op Eds
Time Berners-Lee’s new World Wide Web Foundation
Global Voices Online: Global Voices Advocacy: A project of Global Voices Online, we seek to build a global anti-censorship network of bloggers and online activists dedicated to protecting freedom of expression and free access to information online.
Electronic Frontier Foundation
Slashdot: Your Rights Online
Social Software Links: Postmodernism, Data Smog Edition
Metafilter: If information is power, then access is empowering
NYTimes: Overfeeding on Information
NYtimes: Spinning a Web of Lies at Digital Speed
NYTimes: The Rise of the Machines
Andrew Sullivan: Why I Blog
Reason.com: Every Man a Derrida
Rough Type: Googling and intelligence
Been a way for a bit
I’ve been dealing with a few things, including migrating all of my personal sites to a new web host (next – upgrading my templates to meet latest MT versions), that have kept me away this past week, but hopefully today will catch up on my blogging.
Wow
Chron.com: Answers come too late for Ike worker’s daughter: Clear Lake woman uses Web to track down adult child of man killed while saving dogs from freeway
Learn about psychiatry from Heavy Metal
Funny post over at Mind Hacks.
Effort Counts
Calvin Coolidge famously said: Nothing in the world can take the place of persistence. Talent will not; nothing is more common than unsuccessful men with talent. Genius will not; unrewarded genius is almost a proverb. Education will not; the world is full of educated derelicts. Persistence and determination are omnipotent. The slogan press on has solved and always will solve the problems of the human race.
Seth Godin: Is effort a myth?
Overcoming Bias: Make an Extraordinary Effort
All we can do is play the cards we are dealt the best we can. And try to do so with every hand.
Understanding the economic crisis
Lots of material out there to read to understand what is going on. Here are some of the more interesting ones I’ve found:
The Money Meltdown – a set of links that attempts to summarize the situation and how we got here.
Slate.com: Subprime Suspects: Puts to rest the idea that poor homeowners are somehow to blame for this.
60 Minutes: A Look At Wall Street’s Shadow Market
Megan McArdle: How did it all happen? – some cognitive science behind this.
Forbes: The Economics of Trust – Capitalism requires trust. Break the foundations of trust between people and institutions and something like this is inevitable.
And the best two explanations I have heard so far were on This American Life: The Giant Pool of Money and Another Frightening Show About the Economy
Delete Email With Python
I have a problem on my host. This came in handy.