--- title: links for 2007-03-23 date: 2007-03-23T23:34:06Z modified: 2007-03-23T23:34:06Z permalink: "https://redmonk.com/jgovernor/links-for-2007-03-23/" type: post status: publish excerpt: "" wpid: 971 categories: - Uncategorized timestamp: 2007-03-23T23:34:06Z tags: - Uncategorized --- - [For YouTube, This Is a Test – washingtonpost.com](http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/03/22/AR2007032202058.html?referrer=email) opt-in vs opt-out. The flipside of “user” generated content. (tags: [Google](http://del.icio.us/JamesGovernor/Google) [copyright](http://del.icio.us/JamesGovernor/copyright) [YouTube](http://del.icio.us/JamesGovernor/YouTube)) - [Message to World Leaders](http://www.avaaz.org/en/climate_action_g8/) Sign up to G8 petition on climate change, if you care about, or believe, we have a problem on our hands. (tags: [greening](http://del.icio.us/JamesGovernor/greening)) - [Open Source Unleashed: PR blogging and the influence sphere](http://alexfletcher.typepad.com/all_bets_off/2007/03/pr_blogging_and.html) PRs should blog, as per Alex’s suggestion. But delivering press releases via RSS leaves me cold. The value of blogging, to me, is in humanising news. (tags: [PR](http://del.icio.us/JamesGovernor/PR) [blogging](http://del.icio.us/JamesGovernor/blogging) [influence2.0](http://del.icio.us/JamesGovernor/influence2.0)) - [Official Google Enterprise Blog: Google Enterprise search – Now in Mexico!](http://googleenterprise.blogspot.com/2007/03/google-enterprise-search-now-in-mexico.html) I had not realised Google appliances was a enterprise channel sales-based approach. interesting. (tags: [search](http://del.icio.us/JamesGovernor/search)) - [alexbarnett.net blog : Does REST need a WSDL?](http://www.alexbarnett.net/blog/archive/2007/03/13/Does-REST-need-a-WSDL_3F00_.aspx) I think WADL might have some value, as long as people don’t start trying to come up with a central server in the sky approach to storing these descriptions like UDDI. Standardised descriptions can be very helpful in enabling contracts, but REST really do (tags: [REST](http://del.icio.us/JamesGovernor/REST) [WSDL](http://del.icio.us/JamesGovernor/WSDL) [WADL](http://del.icio.us/JamesGovernor/WADL)) - [Scan, copy and fax with your camera phone or digital camera](http://www.scanr.com/) cool (tags: [innovation](http://del.icio.us/JamesGovernor/innovation)) - [Recommended Reading for “Enterprisey” Types (and some for SystemTAP types)](http://www.michaeldolan.com/675) “I’ve discovered at IBM, mainframes are not a dying technology, in fact the longer I’m in IBM watching what customers are doing, the more I’m realizing that mainframes are actually a window into the future of where other platforms (x86/RISC) are hea (tags: [RedMonk](http://del.icio.us/JamesGovernor/RedMonk) [mainframe](http://del.icio.us/JamesGovernor/mainframe) [enterprisey](http://del.icio.us/JamesGovernor/enterprisey)) - [Agile Enterprise Architecture: Enterprise Open Source Policy](http://opensourcecto.blogspot.com/2007/01/enterprise-open-source-policy.html) Thoughts on setting up an a policy for Enterprise use of open source, including contribution as well as adoption (tags: [OSS](http://del.icio.us/JamesGovernor/OSS) [policy](http://del.icio.us/JamesGovernor/policy)) - [Optaros Free and Open Source Software Policy / Home – Optaros, Inc](http://www.optaros.com/en/optaros_free_and_open_source_software_policy) Optaros policy on open source. Point one confuses me – because if the software is developed as FOSS, then Optaros *doesn’t* “own” it, thus points 1 and 2 contradict each other. (tags: [OSS](http://del.icio.us/JamesGovernor/OSS) [policy](http://del.icio.us/JamesGovernor/policy) [patronage](http://del.icio.us/JamesGovernor/patronage)) - [African Music :: soulafricamusic.com](http://music.soulafricamusic.com/world/africa) African music MP3s (tags: [music](http://del.icio.us/JamesGovernor/music)) - [Merrill Says Research Is Being Napster-ized – Mergers, Acquisitions, Venture Capital, Hedge Funds — DealBook – New York Times](http://dealbook.blogs.nytimes.com/2007/03/22/merrill-frets-about-napster-ized-research/) Sorry Merrill Lynch but you just can’t fight this. Information really does want to be free. Get open- its the only way to live. Research should be open source. Take a lesson from the music industry – which tried to put the drawbridges up… and is now in (tags: [MerrillLynch](http://del.icio.us/JamesGovernor/MerrillLynch) [research](http://del.icio.us/JamesGovernor/research)) - [Are Designers The Enemy Of Design?](http://www.businessweek.com/innovate/NussbaumOnDesign/archives/2007/03/are_designers_t.html) Fantastic brave. smart article on Design, and why designers suck He even calls out Jonathan Ive for not designing sustainability into Apple’s packaging and manufacturing processes. Love this: “‘ve redesigned my job at Business Week from the Voice Of Autho (tags: [design](http://del.icio.us/JamesGovernor/design) [architecture](http://del.icio.us/JamesGovernor/architecture) [Apple](http://del.icio.us/JamesGovernor/Apple)) - [MBOTW- Moo!](http://web.ukonline.co.uk/louis.divine/mbotw/html/single_bottle/single_bot_47_back.htm) only in England. site tracking milk bottle of the week… (tags: [Milk](http://del.icio.us/JamesGovernor/Milk))