Here is why I believe that paid content is the future:

1. There is more "media" (movies, TV, blogs, news sources, novels, video games, music) than ever
2. Said media is also growing at a greater rate than ever
3. People's access to said media is greater than ever (mostly because of the Internet)
4. Much of this art (I like that word more than "media") is ad- ( Read more... )

Caps Lock in emails and trolls in the forum
Failure to Google and newsgroup decorum
Web-cammed-up kid gets on YouTube and sings
These are some of my least fa-vorite things

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Yesterday all the Chipotles in Columbus gave away free burritos. I love Chipotle - it is one of my favorite places to eat. But when I heard about the free burritos yesterday morning, my first thought was "Guess I'm not going to Chipotle today ( Read more... )

Cindy knows that I have two classes of heroes: actual heroic people who do great things (Lessig; Dawkins) and "internet heroes" - people who don't necessarily do anything important, but who do it in a way I really admire.

Chief among this second group is Merlin Mann. If you Google him, you might think that Merlin Mann is a common name. No - all ( Read more... )

Technical documentation gets a bad rap. There are certainly very dry technical manuals out there, but good writing finds its way to the top even in the technical world. The following lines from the Samba Howto Collection struck my fancy:
Do not rush into an LDAP deployment.
...
It is well understood by LDAP veterans that first implementations create ( Read more... )

Ironic Sans invents (or documents?) a new typography word.

Netflix is going Blu-ray over HD-DVD. Thank goodness.

What is the thought, and what is the thinking?
The idea is now the machine.
Where is the border between word and action?
No one noticed when it left.

Wow. Desperate much, Microsoft? That's a lot of cash to put behind a hostile takeover. Microsoft is obviously serious.
Will it Go Through?

I think yes. Yahoo is a pretty stable company - it would take a while for its value to grow that much. Better as a Yahoo stockholder to take the money and run.
Good for Microsoft?

If they don't mess with Yahoo's ( Read more... )