OSS and Web 2.0: The Natural Partnership of Peer Production
In an earlier post I took you through some of my favorite desktop F/LOSS projects, and I've blathered on about the Flock browser separately. If you really w...
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Write Once, Post Everywhere
I've been dancing around how open source software, strong standards, and the various web 2.0 technologies actually help your organization out. So let me sho...
Teens and Social Media
Pew Internet and American Life Project has a new report out on Teens and Social Media; finding that girls are the leading content creators (excepting video p...
Immigrants take all the best jobs
For example, I bet there's a long line of good ol' american workers who would love to have solid, agriculture jobs in Florida, like the one described in this...
Good thoughts on code bloat
Steve Yegge writes on code bloat: I recently had the opportunity to watch a self-professed Java programmer give a presentation in which one slide listed Pro...
Who’s to blame for a bad loan?
A good friend of mine has condensed a lot of good, critical thoughts on lending -- from the subprime market to the World Bank, into one good blog post, riffi...
iPod shuffle, gtkpod, and winamp
I just don't like doing things the right way, OK? The right way is boring
A Better Browser II
Hopefully you're enjoying Flock now. If you already had accounts on Facebook, Flickr, YouTube, Twitter, and/or del.icio.us, you've seen how amazingly easy i...
Vista Loses 2007
All I can say is ouch: It's just that Vista isn't all that good. Many of the innovations the operating system was supposed to bring--like more efficient fil...
A Better Browser
The problem I face most often when trying to show someone a new powerful open source tool is that they just can't believe that the things I tell them are pos...
Twitter Account
In case you hadn't noticed, I now have a Twitter account which you can follow, have SMSed to your cell phone, and so on. I wrote a longer entry talking abou...
Open Source Software: By volunteers, for volunteers.
If you think back to the opening Econ 101 entry, I ran through network effects, transaction costs, rivalrous and excludable goods, and their inverse, anti-ri...
Off Topic: Torture
Salon.com has an exclusive article detailing the detainment of an innocent Yemeni citizen in CIA's black site prisons:
An Overview of Popular Web 2.0 sites
So far we've really been pushing the underlying concepts, with a few tips to actual websites, examples, and tools. Without further ado, I'd now like to jump...
Web 2.0 101: Speaking the Language
The last entry was the theoretical underpinnings of how this whole web 2.0 thing can work, so today let's get into some of the more common terms you've heard...