“This is true”, Chris Messina giggles at a minute thirty of Citizen Garden Episode 1: Winter Solstice Edition in response to Larry Halff asking him about being involved in a social networking project. If you know Chris, you know “this is true” is a chrisism. If you don’t, I’m excited that he and friends Larry, [...]
Category Archives: Opinion
Bootup Labs - Vancouver Tech Startup Incubator
January 15, 2008 – 9:30 am
Boris Mann and Danny Robinson have started a technology startup incubator called Bootup Labs in Vancouver.
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Scoble Broke Our Trust And The Law By Sharing Our Personal Data
January 14, 2008 – 4:13 pm
I haven’t been able to influence Dennis Howlett or Thomas Otter into making clear arguments that supports their accusations, let along clear accusations, so here I will try to do that first step for them:
Scoble broke the law by sharing our personal data with Plaxo.
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Serious Accusation, Scoble Shot The Sheriff
January 12, 2008 – 5:57 pm
Dennis Howlett and Thomas Otter recently made serious accusations against Robert Scoble, explicitly stating that he has broken European Union law. They both use very strong language, no if, maybes, buts about it. Both have responded to my article. Unfortunately, to my frustration they continue to level these accusations without clear arguments and focus — [...]
Scoble Breaks EU Laws By Updating His Address Book?!
January 9, 2008 – 9:20 am
Literally, throw the book at him!
Robert Scoble titled a recent article “Scoble is an EU lawbreaker, blogger says“, the accusation the title speaks to his because Robert used a tool to record information that his contacts had shared with him.
Dennis Howlett claims “under EU law, it’s also illegal” based on Thomas Otter “[nailing] it” — [...]
WordPress Hands Free Upgrade?
January 7, 2008 – 3:09 pm
This comment by Matt is too good to leave obscure in a WordPress bug report:
Fundamentally, I think the reason [automatic upgrade] should be core is that WordPress being used as, and has the responsibilities of, a platform. Therefore it’s useful to look at the evolution of a few of the other most successful platforms out [...]
Factoryjoe’s Golden Tack Removed After Damning Statement!
November 1, 2007 – 1:46 pm
The open source commune was rocked when Open Source Ambassador to the UNMe, Chris “factoryjoe” Messina, had his golden tack removed from his seat!
The allegation? Too much love for the Apple kool-aid? No, far worse than that, down right blasphemy! He was overheard preaching:
Open source is the domain of the privileged elite. Unless you have [...]
All Text Is Encoded, And When Migrating WordPress You Have To Remember This
August 24, 2007 – 2:21 pm
I spend some of my time helping people migrate to WordPress from other blogging platforms or helping them move between hosts.
All text on computers is encoded. There is no such thing as plain text.
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designing the obvious
July 30, 2007 – 7:36 pm
I was enthusiastic after reading Robert Hoekman, Jr. book Designing the Obvious, inspired by his very live talk at WordCamp, but now after him spending a full day with the Automattic team feel I will fail myself if I don’t apply and share what I have learned
Ann Coulter on my Blog!
July 18, 2007 – 10:59 am
If you are a friend of mine and you use Google Adsense on your blog, you probably want to add humanevents.com to “Competitive Ad Filter”.
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