Business and Technology with Common Sense
I took the time this evening to setup Movable Type 4. I believe in the open source movement and though MT was much alighned for going into “paid mode” for MT3 (and alienating many, many bloggers who were loyal MT users), they swung the other direction with MT4 by opening it up. Not only is [...]
This morning, I was shut down in the middle of a podcast recording at Baltimore Ravens training camp. During the video, my camera was pointed at me with a tree in the background. There were no fans, players, Ravens likeness, etc. There was no reason for a shutdown. But I was because I didn’t have [...]
I hate being part of an echo chamber, but the idea of a blogging union is crap. This was the concept initiated by a small group of bloggers at the Yearly Kos convention, a remarkably mundane group of left leaning dependophiles that believe socialized anything is good for business. A bloggers union will never happen. [...]
Today at Gnomedex there was a fascinating interaction between the user-centric Gnomedex crowd and Jason Calacanis. Jason, as you know from previous interactions and engagements on the web and on this blog, is the founder of several successful companies. His current project is the much maligned Mahalo which figures to despam the internet by providing [...]