Top 10 Tenets Of Principled Computing
Top 10 Tenets Of Principled Computing I am not a Microsoft hater, Macintosh zealot, or Linux nerd. I do, however, believe in principled computing. My law office uses multiple operating systems and multiple applications, some open source, some not. I care more about how my data is formatted and stored than how the data is [...]
Dan Gillmor on Groove
Guess I’m not the only one speculating about Kapor’s departure from Groove:
Dan Gillmor writes in his column today :
My immediate instinct was to praise Kapor for showing honor and principle. This implicitly suggested a lack of those qualities on the part of Groove’s leaders, and on reflection I concluded I was being too harsh. They aren’t [...]
Groove: Groupware or warware?
NYT. Mitchell D. Kapor, a personal computer industry software pioneer and a civil liberties activist, has resigned from the board of Groove Networks after learning that the company’s software was being used by the Pentagon as part of its development of a domestic surveillance system. [John Robb's Radio Weblog]
I met Mitch Kapor when I was [...]
Renewing Radio
Am I the only one out there who’s mildly annoyed at having to pay $39.95 to renew my copy of Radio, when I don’t use a single kilobyte of storage or consume any bandwidth whatsoever on Userland’s servers?
Seems like I’m subsidizing some of the more popular Radio weblogs out there since I publish my Radio [...]
Billboards on the 101 at low tide…
My wife and I moved to the Bay Area in 1999, while the bubble was growing. We lived less than a mile from the 101, the highway that cuts through San Jose and goes up through San Francisco. Driving the 101 for the first time was a lot like the first time I got to Yankee [...]
NewsQuakes
newsQuakes. … [Jon's Radio]
This has popped up in my news aggregator a couple times. Check it out - a seriously cool example of where stuff like this could end up. The challenge of visualizing information is a fascinating one - and this applies a geographic overlay to breaking news. Nice idea.
Editing outlines on your Palm
Back in May I asked for some folks to help me figure out a way to edit outlines on my Palm. One of Radio’s powerful features is its built-in outliner - a simple but effective tool for hierarchically ordering information. It stores all outlines in its own file format, called OPML (more on OPML here). [...]
Editing Radio Outlines on Your Palm
Thanks to my new Treo, info on my PDA is always close by. I’m increasingly reliant on outlines as a way to organize info, collect thoughts, etc. But one limitation was that I couldn’t edit the outlines on my Palm. When the Treo arrived, I put a little effort into trying to fix that.
You can [...]
Radio as Infrastructure
Ernie’s post the other day about how he’ll be using Radio to update his firm’s News page got me thinking about how flexible Radio really is. Here’s how I use Radio today:
As a weblog application. Radio runs on my desktop and uploads new posts to my weblog TINS (just in case you hadn’t figured it [...]
Very Cool Windows Hack
Want to change your Windows NT or Windows 2000 boot-up screen? Take a visit over to this site to follow some pretty straightforward instructions on how to do it. (Not for the faint of heart - you’re changing a Windows system file.)
In about 20 minutes, I was able to add my company’s logo to the [...]
