eMusic Q&A: Mark Everett of Eels – eMusic Spotlight
"What were you not willing to do?
Put out Beautiful Freak Volume Two and more $300,000 videos. The way that music is made now is basically for people who don't like music. It's made by focus groups. I would go insane. The only person I'm thinking about listening [...]
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“My challenge to everyone competing with Amazon, Google and Microsoft is to remember that you’re competing with Amazon, Google and Microsoft. These are strong technology companies, and if you’re going to compete with them, open source is the only way to do that. Otherwise, you have no leverage.” – Matt Mullenweg
Let’s accept up front that [...]
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This was supposed to be a post about what I’d consider to be an obvious enterprise marketplace candidate, but between Firefox 3.5, Weave, and some tinkering with Android, I got a little sidetracked.
So as Plan B, I offer up to those of you that haven’t seen it on Twitter yet an interview I did [...]
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I’m not quite Victor Kiam when it comes to the iPhone – I haven’t yet bought Apple, as far as you know – but I’m a serious fan of the product. Enough that I spent my own, not RedMonk’s, hard earned dollars to upgrade from a first generation to the recently released 3GS.
To own [...]
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There was not a lot new at Enterprise 2.0 this year. And that’s a profoundly good thing.
Gone are the days, fortunately, when blogs were a foreign word within enterprises. With everyone from ESPN to Oprah aggressively promoting their Twitter channels, awareness of quote unquote 2.0 collaboration and social media technologies is at an all [...]
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NPR: Dead Man's Switch: CC Me From The Other Side
morbid? maybe. probably. but something we all should – and i will – think about.
(tags: death twitter identity passwords)
Coding Horror: The Web Browser Address Bar is the New Command Line
could not agree more, which is why i'm such a fan of Yubnub
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The Nike Experiment: How the Shoe Giant Unleashed the Power of Personal Metrics
"We tend to think of our physical selves as a system that's simply too complex to comprehend. But what we've learned from companies like Google is that if you can collect enough data, there's no need for a grand theory to explain a [...]
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“What would email look like if we set out to invent it today?” – Lars Rasmussen, via Tim O’Reilly
In spite of substantial evidence that it’s at best a mixed blessing, the world outside of technology largely celebrates tradition. Even as humanity moves forward, we actively look for ways large and small to anchor ourselves to [...]
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I haven’t been coming to JavaOne quite as long as my colleague, but I’ve been making the trek to San Francisco for Sun’s annual Java confab for at least seven or so years, as near as we could determine. Of those I’ve been to, this was unquestionably the strangest.
And why not, given the elephant [...]
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Great white shark, originally uploaded by Michiel Van Balen.
“A shark attack is an attack on a human by a shark. Every year, a number of people are attacked by sharks, although death is quite unusual. Despite the relative rarity of shark attacks, the fear of sharks is a common phenomenon, having been fueled by the [...]
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Incremental progress to declare victory is a phrase often heard in the technology industry, but far more rarely practiced. Too often we see vendors polishing their swords to slivers, having failed to learn the basic lesson that perfect is the enemy of good.
Not so the folks from Amazon Web Services. Besides their early identification [...]
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As a long term believer in application marketplaces, it has been rewarding to see the success that offerings like the Apple iTunes store are having. A billion apps makes a convincing argument, and all that.
But I admit to still being absolutely mystified by the absence of marketplaces that incorporate, you know, actual developers. Clearly [...]
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In their efforts to establish context, many of the journalists and vendors we speak with begin by comparing the cloud to ancestral technologies like grid or utility compute offerings. Many, if not most, believe that is representative of the possible upside for the cloud and cloud based offerings.
Certainly those of this mind set may [...]
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“Stated more simply: as long as MySQL remains committed to the dual licensing model, it will be unable to accept the same patch set that open source only versions of the code can, because they do not share the same licensing concerns. Which is why we’ve seen these spring up.” – MySQL: Now and Then
Given [...]
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When it comes to backing up my music, I have four problems. Apart from the backup, I mean.
My music acquisition is done on a Linux laptop (both Amazon and the eMusic store provide Linux clients)
My Linux laptop’s harddrive is only 128 GB, much of which is devoted to virtual images, ergo space for music [...]
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“I am not proud of the fact that some of my e-mail goes unanswered as a result. It is never my intention to be rude or to give well-meaning readers the cold shoulder. If I were a commercial best-seller, I would have enough money to hire a staff to look after my correspondence. As it [...]
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SandHill.com | The Impact of Oracle-Sun
couple of folks sent this to me, and it is indeed a nice writeup of the Sun/ORCL deal and its implications. i don't agree with all of it – among other issues, i think it's not realistic to imagine that we'll see Oracle trot out a MySQL replacement – but [...]
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Remember when I told you that in spite of some pending lease work, “barring any unforeseen issues, RedMonk is once more a Maine based organization?” Well, we had some unforeseen issues; in this case, a hideous and truly unsignable lease. So, we exited, and there was no more Old Port for RedMonk. That’s the bad [...]
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It being McKinsey, you can assume the math is correct. For once, though, I think the numbers fail to tell the story. Though whether that’s their fault or McKinsey’s is open to question. But I’m getting ahead of myself.
For those that missed it, the folks over the Uptime Institute engaged the celebrated management consultancy [...]
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For a variety of reasons, not least the best efforts of Oracle and Sun to sink my week, the planned commentary on McKinsey’s interesting Cloud Presentation isn’t quite ready yet. Look for that tomorrow, instead. But lest I leave you bereft of my prattle, let’s go back to the well and do the rare Thursday [...]
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Of course Sun got acquired yesterday: it was a holiday for me. Just as the skies are sure to open up when I’m about to get on a plane, so too are acquisitions inevitably made when I’m not supposed to be working. True, the acquirer was not IBM as many had predicted, but rather Big [...]
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When the reforged GNU General Public License, Version 3 (GPLv3) was finalized and released to an expectant public on June 29, 2007, the most important decision may have been one postponed. With the third iteration of the most popular open source license, the Free Software Foundation tackled weighty questions relating to software patents, license compatibility [...]
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It would be misleading to assert that the rise of Java within the enterprise was purely a function of the evolution of the application servers that today serve as the languages primary vehicle. But there can be little debate that the early products like WebLogic, later acquired by BEA, were instrumental in assuring Java’s place [...]
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Hi I’m Stephen O’Grady. You may remember me from such pieces as “Do Operating Systems Matter?” or “Do Operating Systems Matter Part 2: The Appliance Question?” Troy McClure jokes aside, the question persists, and in fact has never been more relevant than today.
As we discuss with vendors and users alike, cloud computing offerings – [...]
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Fore St in the Old Port
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I’m tempted to say I told you so, actually. I mean, this is hardly the first time you’ve heard me talk about real Portland – better known to some of you as the one in Maine. As well as, henceforth, America’s Most Livable city. Yup, you read [...]
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The truth is that the world was never as simple as we would have liked to believe. While Java vs .NET made for nice copy, and a simple message, the reality was hardly so black and white. Even as the enterprises focused on the likes of J2EE, Perl, PHP and others were flowing like water [...]
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A year ago last month, I asked Sun where their cloud offering was. It was imperative, I argued, that a systems supplier like the Network-is-the-computer firm have the ability to not only be an arms supplier, but a force unto themselves:
Will said future, for example, include a computing landscape largely dominated by four or five [...]
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ongoing · The Sun Cloud
a nutty schedule has prevented me from talking direct w/ Tim about this, sadly, but it looks interesting. need to write it up after getting the walkthrough.
(tags: timbray sun cloud rest java python ruby storage amazon creativecommons)
Vuze HD Network
a bittorrent app that will drag-and-drop reformat for various devices. wonder if i [...]
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There was other news this week, to be sure. Just nothing that anyone wanted to talk about (with the possible exception of Sun’s cloud). No, all the talk this week was of the rumored acquisition of Sun by IBM: I’ll give Reuters the link because of their very, um, visual headline, “Web powerhouse Sun Micro [...]
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While it’s true that you hear it here last, generally, a week is a bit much, even for me. But as we’re still fielding questions about the news that Microsoft had filed a complaint over alleged infringed patents against TomTom, Dutch manufacturer of navigation systems, it seems necessary to comment. So in service of said [...]
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Having brought my particular brand of weather devastation in Monday’s “Mega-Storm” to the Northeast this week by attempting to return from Denver, it’s now time to take advantage of the fallout, which in this case happens to be a fair amount of snow. Thus it is that my lady lawyer and I are [...]
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Way back in the dark ages of 2006, Alfresco’s Matt Asay and I debated the revenue potential of open source businesses; particularly the potential ceilings therein. Here’s how I framed the basic question:
One of the frequently debated topics concerning open source companies, both at OSCON and more generally, is how they compare in economic [...]
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Las Vegas bets on $8 billion rail pot, but Midwest team is well connected — chicagotribune.com
people who know how much i love rail will be totally unsurprised to discover that i'm a big fan of this idea. whether we should be spending the money in the first place is a different question, of course, but [...]
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Back to the Future for Data Storage
really excellent piece by Joe that summarizes far more succinctly than I ever have the rapidly evolving database options beyond the one-size-fits-all relational approach.
(tags: joegregorio programming hypertable couchdb simpledb databases distributed relational scalability cloudcomputing bigtable gae)
Finding the lost city – The Boston Globe
El Dorado might be real?
(tags: eldorado bostonglobe [...]
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It’s what I’ve come to call the WordPress Lesson. One of them, anyway. In an interview that I can sadly no longer find – such is the fate of content I forget to del.icio.us – WordPress founder Matt Mullenweg admitted that one of the mistakes the project had made was not intially providing an aggregation [...]
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The primary challenge to marketing a complex product, at least in our industry, is education. Communicating to a customer just how your wonderful offering will solve their problem is a non-trivial task for any piece of software more complicated than Google’s Search. Which explains why marketers act like metal filings around a magnet when they [...]
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A Birthday Tribute To Abraham Lincoln : NPR
i love Lincoln
(tags: abrahamlincoln npr history birthday)
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To be honest, commenting on personnel moves is not something that I enjoy doing. While I’m happy to weigh in on strategic directions, product launches and the like from vendors that I cover, the movement of people is generally something I try to leave to others, uncomfortably close to gossip as it is for me. [...]
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As many of you are no doubt aware from the coverage, we at RedMonk recently participated in a survey with the good folks over at Canonical to get a better sense of where the Ubuntu community is at at present. Not shockingly, the returns are interesting and clearly – in my view – worth exploring. [...]
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Happy February, to each and every one of you. The second month being the best, and all. Not just because it is – from what I’m told – the month of my birth (James too). No, February as so much more to offer. Truck Day is this Friday, Pitchers and Catchers report a week and [...]
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The Bacon Explosion – Take Bacon. Add Sausage. Blog. – NYTimes.com
this is unspeakably wrong…and hilarious
(tags: bacon sausage food via:nathan)
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“But now we’ve reached an interesting point in our project’s growth: our grant ends on June 30, and, under the terms of our grant, we’re open-sourcing the EveryBlock publishing system so that anybody will be able to take the code to create similar sites. That’s a Good Thing, in that EveryBlock’s philosophies and tools will [...]
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Sara Dornsife at Austin OSUG
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It’s been a tough few weeks on the job loss front. This morning’s inbox brought the less than wonderful news that Caterpillar was laying off twenty thousand, Home Depot seven, and Sprint Nextel eight. Last week, as many of you have seen – and asked us about – [...]
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The Cost of Fearing Strangers – Freakonomics Blog – NYTimes.com
"As we wrote in Freakonomics, most people are pretty terrible at risk assessment. They tend to overstate the risk of dramatic and unlikely events at the expense of more common and boring (if equally devastating) events."
(tags: freakonomics stephendubner risk rationalism irrationality sociology heuristics psychology anxiety strangers [...]
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As some of you are no doubt aware, David Berlind, Dave Nielsen and myself collected some of the best and brightest in the cloud computing industry yesterday to look at what I consider to be a crucial question for the future of the industry: how do we protect customers from being locked in to platforms [...]
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Ubuntu and Its Leader Set Sights on the Mainstream – NYTimes.com
thought i'd already pointed to this, but apparently not. good writeup on the Ubuntu phenomenon from Mr. Ashlee Vance.
(tags: ashleevance ubuntu linux opensource mainstream)
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5 Real Ways to Get High Straight Out of Science Fiction | Cracked.com
how have i never heard of "Provigil" before?
(tags: humor psychology brain drugs pharmacology)
King Kaufman – Salon
"Sabermetric analysis is used not just by a wide swath of baseball fans and chroniclers, but also in baseball front offices. It's relied heavily upon by, among others, [...]
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When I look at the evidence, it tells me that more often than not, convenience trumps both features and quality. Which is not to argue that the three need be mutually exclusive, mind, but rather that when there are asymmetries in these qualities, convenience wins.
Which is probably why an entry of Larry Augustin’s on [...]
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adylitica is coming
Alex's new effort. if you're a big AdWords user, drop him a line to see if you can get into the beta.
(tags: alexbosworth adwords adylitica beta)
Sun Microsystems – Employment
anyone want to work on Drizzle?
(tags: drizzle sun mysql hiring cloud database)
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Raise your hand if you think cloud interoperability is not a problem.
Right. Those of you with raised hands are excused; we obviously see the market very differently. Too differently.
For the rest of you – those of you who do see problems, and wish that we could more seamlessly migrate from cloud service to another, [...]
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Ubuntu and Its Leader Set Sights on the Mainstream – NYTimes.com
good overview on the Ubuntu phenomenon from Mr. Vance
(tags: ashleevance ubuntu markshuttleworth linux windows nytimes)
Rough Type: Nicholas Carr's Blog: The strip-mined net
"Internet zealots get a charge out of describing books, magazines, and newspapers as "dead tree media." The implication is that surrounding yourself with always-on [...]
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Little known fact: over on the baseball blog that you people forced me to create, I do a bit of math. Where a bit can be read as more than I did my senior year of high school and in four years of college combined. True, it’s simple stuff. Addition, subtraction, multiplication and division to [...]
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Illegal fishing charged; tons of rockfish seized — baltimoresun.com
and people wonder why the striper fishery is essentially destroyed. a 3 *ton* illegal catch? second time in a week? maximum fine of $500?
(tags: striper fisheries illegal fishing via:stripersforever)
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With the twin caveats that I’m an Ubuntu user and the admission that I have yet to actually hold a device of any type actually running Google’s Android software, I have to be honest: all this talk of Android netbooks baffles me.
Not the part of getting it to run on the platforms, of course: [...]
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First Mono-game hits the Apple AppStore – Miguel de Icaza
Mono on the iPhone? very cool. congrats to Migel and crew.
(tags: iphone blurst raptorcopter mono)
Elijah’s Blog » Blog Archive » GNOME DVCS Survey results
interesting results from looking at DVCS preferences w/in the GNOME community. git looks like the clear winner from here.
(tags: opensource community gnome blog [...]
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Naming this particular entry as I wrote it up, I tagged it 08 for what is likely to be the first of many such occurrences for the next month if I’m lucky. Six if I’m not.
Anyway, I’d love to tell you all about my winter vacation, but we have a few problems. One: it [...]
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Loving Ubiquity; Extending the Web in 2009 on Dion Almaer's Blog
i wonder if Dion's seen Yubunb
(tags: yubnub ubiquity mozilla cli web)
Paul Buchheit: Overnight success takes a long time
"We starting working on Gmail in August (or September?) 2001. For a long time, almost everyone disliked it. Some people used it anyway because of the search, but [...]
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The Phoenix > Media — Dont Quote Me > Dailies go Darwin
"Reports of newspapers' death are exaggerated — but after the changes coming in 2009, will we still recognize them?" – interesting thoughts on the future of journalism and the industry that supports it
(tags: journalism bostonphoenix newspapers 2009 reinvention evolution darwin)
Win Values Explained: Part Six [...]
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“The American Public has a Right to Know That They Do Not Have to Choose Between Torture and Terror”: Six questions for Matthew Alexander, author of How to Break a Terrorist—By Scott Horton (Harper's Magazine)
"My team of interrogators knew that we would become Al Qaeda’s best recruiters if we resorted to torture. Torture is counterproductive [...]
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Researchers unlock secrets of 1918 flu pandemic – Boston.com
"Most flu experts agree that a pandemic of influenza will almost certainly strike again. No one knows when or what strain it will be but one big suspect now is the H5N1 avian influenza virus.
H5N1 is circulating among poultry in Asia, Europe and parts of Africa. It [...]
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Broadband Stimulus Plan: How About Some Data First? | Epicenter from Wired.com
agreed. on a macro level, the principle makes sense, but more data – far more data – is required.
(tags: data broadband stimulus economy recession government)
As Crisis Spreads, a Pinch Becomes a Squeeze – NYTimes.com
an on the ground look at the impacts from the economy [...]
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When my former coworker – that many of you now know as daveraffaele on Twitter – asked me to play the latest meme game, it’s not as if I had much choice. I mean, really: how could I deny the ‘fro?
Sure, we’ve played this kind of game before, you and I, but who’s not [...]
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RIAA Wins $8K Default Settlement Against Chronically Ill Teen | The Tripwire
think the RIAA is "less evil" now that they have "stopped" suing people? remember this.
(tags: riaa drm litigation consumer copyright evil)
Lost World discovered on Google Earth | News | TechRadar UK
very, very cool. and illustrative of the potential for discovery using some of the [...]
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Technically, it was a Nor’easter, but who’s counting?
Like the rest of New England, we here in Maine got punished yesterday with a storm that got up at nineish and didn’t retire until well after midnight. Technically, I’m told it was not a blizzard, but that didn’t stop it from shattering a few December records. [...]
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MySQL has never shied from being controversial, from being the iconoclast of the open source world. From working with SCO to embedding non-open source assets to the dual licensing strategy, the vendor has ever been willing to push the envelope and experiment.
And while it’s taken a beating in some quarters for a decision here [...]
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By popular request (read: three of you) I’ve labored to compile my selections for the best records of 2008.
Given my rather eclectic and obscure tastes – as compared to the average listener, many of the albums below may be unfamiliar to you. Depending on your own inclinations towards discovering new music, that will be [...]
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Consortiuminfo.org Consortium Standards Journal — October – November 2008
great suggestions, as usual, from Andy
(tags: standards obama government)
Survey: CIOs 'out of the loop' | Tech News on ZDNet
yep. like we've been saying.
(tags: cios adoption purchasing procurement)
iPhone Dev Spends $500k on Development, Still Not Approved by Apple | MacBlogz – One Stop Apple News
while i'm not sure [...]
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Baseball Prospectus | Unfiltered
Someone once asked Rogers Hornsby what he did in the off-season and he famously said “I’ll tell you what I do. I stare out the window and wait for spring.”
(tags: rogershornsby quotes baseball baseballprospectus willcarroll)
Internet Attacks Are a Real and Growing Problem – WSJ.com
i believe it
(tags: terrorism us russia china cyber attacks)
How [...]
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valhenson: Update your Val spotting guide
a good look for val
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Blog of helios: Linux – Stop holding our kids back
yes, this is as absurd as it sounds
(tags: wtf windows technology teachers teacher texas linux education)
ESPN – Peter Gammons Blog
"To get to the gym at the Bellagio Hotel in Las Vegas, one has to [...]
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So we had this ice storm you may have heard about. It was kind of a big deal, with hundreds of thousands of households without power and so on. But while not having power, heat or running water is what we in the business might term suboptimal, there’s always a silver lining to be found. [...]
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It happened so slowly it was fast.
One minute I was slogging my way back Thursday from a Boston area consult, the next I was chipping a half inch of ice off friend’s car after dinner. A few hours later and the ice storm had sent me back to the nineteenth century; no running water, [...]
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Fire Brand interviews Bill James – Fire Brand of the American League
"Suppose that two players come to the majors at the same time, one of them a .280 hitter and the other a .270 hitter. . .supposing for the purpose of illustration that all baseball skills may be expressed in batting average. The [...]
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Evernote Blog » Blog Archive » Evernote Opens Up, Launches API, Hugs Geeks
this could be very cool, as Evernote looks decent, but platform limited
(tags: evernote api platform open cross-platform linux)
pmuellr: more android thoughts
very interesting thoughts on Android, its construction, and its SDK
(tags: pmuellr android mobile java sdk review opensource)
Turning a Failing Restaurant Around – BusinessWeek
give [...]
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WordPress 2.7 – 20 Must See Features
what's new in 2.7: looking forward to it
(tags: wordpress wp upgrade opensource design 2.7 review mashable)
Andi on Web & IT: 1o million downloads and counting. . .
congrats to the Zend folks: the framework is showing up in more and more places. even a couple of apps i've recently downloaded.
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If you’ve heard me talk about the Creative Commons before, you’ve probably heard me make the claim that the organization’s gift to the world is not – as might be supposed – more licenses. My firm belief is that, instead, what the Creative Commons has done exceptionally well is to help people understand the implications [...]
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As could probably have been guessed by things like this, I’ve been more than a bit frustrated by my continuing inability to get the on board WWAN card in my new X301 – an Ericsson F3507g – working under Ubuntu. When I initially reviewed the machine, and later commented on the Ubuntu Intrepid compatibility, the [...]
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Tim O’Reilly has called his assertion that “Data is the Next Intel Inside” the “least-understood principle from my original Web 2.0 manifesto.” And while I don’t love the metaphor – given that Intel’s profits accrued primarily externally – I’m inclined to agree.
When smart people are conflating my arguments in favor of telemetry with Red [...]
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Things were supposed to be different this week. After a relaxing Thanksgiving weekend, which saw the family travel to me here in Maine, I expected to roll into this week recharged and productive. The production’s been fine – excellent actually, but it would seem that I need a bit more than two days off to [...]
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In the 36,393 tracks that Last.fm has listened to me play since I originally signed up for the service four years ago yesterday, the Eels are the second most frequently played act. A distant second to Pearl Jam, it’s true, but still: to be the second most frequently played act in better than 35,000 selections [...]
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Taking control — The Hardball Times
"To close out, let's try to answer our questions about the dartboard of the opening paragraph. Based on the PITCHf/x results it appears that a fastball thrown at a dartboard placed over home plate will hit the bulls-eye with some part of the ball a little less than 1.5 percent [...]
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Interview with Chris Hedges, author of "I Don't Believe in Atheists" | Salon Books
"The only reason I go after Christian fundamentalists and New Atheists is because they're here and I'm an American. Fundamentalism — whether it's Hindu fundamentalism or Jewish fundamentalism or Christian fundamentalism or Islamic fundamentalism — is the same disease. Karen Armstrong has [...]
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Rangers Rumors: Byrd, Valverde, Littleton: MLB Rumors – MLBTradeRumors.com
"Rangers GM Jon Daniels wants Clay Buchholz from the Red Sox for one of his catchers, but Sullivan says the Sox made it clear Buchholz is not available under any circumstances. Sullivan suggests the Sox might be more inclined to trade Justin Masterson or Michael Bowden [...]
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Practising Law Institute – Patent Practice Center – Federal Circuit Decides Software No Longer Patentable
has Luis written on this and i just missed it?
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Turn On, Tune In, Veg Out – New York Times
"If the "Star Wars" movies are remembered a century from now, it'll be because they are such exact parables [...]
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Why I switched from Firefox to Chrome | Webware – CNET
this surprised me, a bit
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Collaboration and Content Strategies Blog: Documents Are Not Files
"Except, in my opinion he shouldn’t be complaining about documents. He should be complaining about documents stored in files.The source of my disagreement with Stephen is his [...]
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Following Sun’s announcement last quarter, the tenor of the inquiries we received about the vendor changed, and changed dramatically. Post-earnings, and subsequent to the announcement of a 18% reduction in headcount, third parties and media types alike shifted their focus from the firm’s products to the firm. What was to become of Sun?
The firm is [...]
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ElasticVapor :: Life in the Cloud: Cloud Standardization: Unified Cloud Interface (UCI)
XMPP as a cloud interface component? sounds good to me
(tags: xmpp uci cloud reuvencohen standards standarization)
Microsoft to Google: Get Off of My Cloud – BusinessWeek
what's more challenging – innately, or from a talent acquisition standpoint – scaling, or selling to enterprises?
(tags: google microsoft cloud [...]
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Annals of Drinking: A Better Brew: Reporting & Essays: The New Yorker
"Elephants, like many of us, enjoy a good malted beverage when they can get it. At least twice in the past ten years, herds in India have stumbled upon barrels of rice beer, drained them with their trunks, and gone on drunken rampages. (The [...]
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MaineToday.com | News Update: Bar Harbor ordinance protects night sky
well, at least it'll use less power
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The flyte crew blog. Delivered to you by: flyte new media » Blog Archive » Let’s Raise Taxes on Gasoline
i reluctantly concur
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Apple Bends to Studios, Adds Copyright [...]
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In between Foo Fighters shows and Neil Young appearances, the folks from Salesforce.com threw together a pretty good conference, if I do say so myself. Good content, good attendance, and enough substance to their announcements to set me back weeks, coverage-wise.
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Winner By a Hair: Collectors Wooed With a Bit of Abe Lincoln – WSJ.com
this is so, so wrong. it's blasphemous, even.
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Creative releases Linux X-Fi driver under the GPL
this is excellent news, as i own one of these cards and run it extremely imperfectly under Intrepid
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Luis Villa’s Blog / dinosaurs+mice, HPUX+Linux, OOo+google office, aka the Innovator’s Dilemma
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On the Farm – A Seafood Snob Ponders [...]
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The Food Issue – An Open Letter to the Next Farmer in Chief – Michael Pollan – NYTimes.com
must read open letter to Obama regarding our farming policies from the author of the Omnivore's Dilemma
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Adobe Labs – Downloads: Flash Player 10
finally! 64 bit builds for [...]
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My Way News – AT&T to try limits on monthly Internet traffic
of course they are…kudos to Verizon for resisting the temptation. i'll advantage them over their competitors for it whenever i have the option.
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This Math Whiz Called It for Obama Months Ago – NYTimes.com
a bit late with this, but a well [...]
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Another week in the books, this time with no planes. Which was well timed, because my potentially Lyme Disease infected leg doesn’t enjoy travel by air at the moment. Really doesn’t enjoy it.
Besides the usual crush of RedMonk duties – which are, as usual, accelerating as we head towards year end – I [...]
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One of the most common complaints I hear regarding discussions of cloud computing is the malleability of the term. Many struggle with the fact that cloud computing can be and frequently is used interchangeably with other, related terms such as grid computing, utility computing, and even Software-as-a-Service. Further frustrating those who would seek a single, [...]
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[Phoronix] Mac OS X 10.5 vs. Ubuntu 8.10 Benchmarks
"With this being our first time comparing the performance of Mac OS X to Ubuntu Linux, we were not sure going into this which one would emerge as the leader. After looking at these results from the Phoronix Test Suite, it's almost a toss-up as to which [...]
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Where the oil comes from: Not from where I thought « Jon Udell
"When I do these kinds of exercises, I’m always struck by two things. First, it amazes me how much of what we think we know is wrong. I was sure that the Middle East was the dominant regional source.
Second, I’m always a bit [...]
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You can take it with a grain of salt, if you wish, either because Sun is a RedMonk client or because I am most certainly not a storage analyst, but Amber Road is – to me – a very interesting bit of kit. Despite being storage.
While I’ve known many and count as friends a [...]
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True, IBM’s Information On Demand conference is two weeks in the past, but better late than never, as they say.
The conference, of relatively recent vintage, is the annual gathering of customers, partners and others investing in IBM’s information management (database et al) platforms. And in a conference climate that’s seeing $120 rates at upscale [...]
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