Turnings

Posted by Daniel Thu, 25 Oct 2007 00:53:00 GMT

I've created a new blog at: http://turnings.phrasewise.com/. There's a bunch of reasons... but in the meantime, that's where the action is now. I'm still working on the blogroll and stuff... but there you have it. Come play!

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Atom & RSD together again for the first time...

Posted by Daniel Tue, 16 Oct 2007 14:47:00 GMT

It Pays To Advertise: Joe Cheng: Configuring an AtomPub blog needs to be equally easy. For some reason, people in the AtomPub community don’t seem to like RSD (only Six Apart puts Atom endpoints in RSD). We need another autodiscovery mechanism.

Hmmm.  When I looked at RSD nearly five years ago, it didn’t seem so bad.  In any case, here’s a ticket and a patch to get WordPress to support autodiscovery of AtomPub endpoints.

[Here, here! And the peasants rejoiced! And the reason one (influential) person in the Atom community didn't like RSD wasn't for technical reasons, but because Dave Winer is an acquaintance, and an early supporter of RSD... and he was reviled by some members of that community. Anyway, all these years later, RSD is quietly doing its job, and should be employed for this purpose. That was kinda the point, with no preference for one API over another. Thanks Sam!]
Source: Sam Ruby

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raganwald: Ockham's razor as it applies to the big rewrite

Posted by Daniel Wed, 10 Oct 2007 13:21:00 GMT

raganwald: Ockham’s razor as it applies to the big rewrite: This is because, in my experience, the technical problems in projects are not root causes, they are symptoms of people and management problems. [Nice analysis.]

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NBC Universal to Acquire Oxygen Media

Posted by Daniel Wed, 10 Oct 2007 00:30:00 GMT

NBC Universal to Acquire Oxygen Media: NBC said it would pay $925 million for Oxygen, a cable television network that focuses on women viewers and is led by Geraldine Laybourne. [Previous posts have pointed out that I’m working at Oxygen these days… and to quell the email filling my inbox from friends and family, as of right this minute, I have little idea of the effect this purchase will have on the extraordinary team I enjoy daily, our products, or of course, on me personally. These things always work out, and I’m looking forward to whatever will happen.]
Source: New York Times: Business

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This changes everything

Posted by Daniel Sun, 07 Oct 2007 11:44:00 GMT

This changes everything:

Never mind the buy 1 give 1 (a great idea). Don't wait until November when you can directly buy laptops for kids right here: One Laptop Per Child -- XO Giving. I just bought five. (Hit the Donate button).

This is a story about tools and bravery and marketing.

The bravery: When Nicholas Negroponte and his team started this project, they had nothing but obstacles. The status quo of software and hardware and skeptics stood firmly in his way. And he took a lot of grief for the effort. Even when you're doing nothing but good, fear of change is going to cause a lot of people to object.

The marketing: Everything, even laptops for kids, works its way through the innovation diffusion curve. That means that most countries, most organizations and most communities aren't going to adopt this tool for a few years. It doesn't matter if it's perfect... these things take time. Smart marketing embraces the curve and doesn't insist that it must change for this project, right now.

One kid (or five kids) at a time. It's enough. It'll happen.

[I had the same reaction, although I lack the resources to buy so many. I'll do what I can. Maybe I can get the folks at work to buy some and give them away.]
Source: Seth's Blog

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