I like Javascript enough to work with it, write in it, and meet up for coffee/tea to hear how its life is going. But I don’t want to move in with it and have its babies. I realize that in contemporary web development I…
Tag: technology
Yahoo + Marissa Mayer = A Good Thing
Today’s good news came at 1:16pm PDT when Marissa Mayer announced that she was leaving Google to join Yahoo as their new CEO. I am greatly heartened by this. I don’t think all cars should be designed and made in Detroit. I don’t think…
Furled and Unfurled
I have been a proponent on this blog and in person of owning your own stuff on the internet for years, even during the boom years of 2005-2008 when everyone thought that the services and Web 2.0 would take care of everything and your data would persist no matter what.
Ben Hammersley: The Internet of People
British Council Annual Lecture 2011: The Internet of People from British Council on Vimeo. “1990 will be seen, I will posit, as being the first year of the great revolution that we are living through. It is also the first year of the great…
SixApart, Fare The Well
In March of 2003, I heard Ben & Mena Trott talk about their blogging software that they started in 2001 after both lost their jobs in the DotCom Bust – Movable Type – and their new company named after the fact that their birthdays…
Ada Lovelace Day: Year 2, I Nominate Caitlin Kilroy & Victoria Chowney
Today is the 2nd Annual Ada Lovelace Day, in where I am to blog about a woman in technology that I admire. After reading Vikki (aka Victoria) Chowney’s Ada Lovelace Day post this morning, I decided that I would like to write about two…
Snobmob
Project52 : Week 3 I hereby coin a new word, Snobmob, of which the definition is: “Any person is the type of person who feels so superior about themselves and their knowledge and/or use of mobile technology that they call lesser mortals ‘Normobs’.” I…
Nokia N900 – Views from the Pundit Analysts, Maemo & Python
Photo taken today by Ms. Jen with a Nokia N900 Tues 12.01.09 – Rabbit rabbit. With the greeting to the new month out of the way, I would like to alert you to several interesting takes on Nokia’s strategy and mentions of the N900:…