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Geeks: Get Involved

February 27, 2011

Why geeks need to get involved in pol­icy making.

#140 Independence

July 2, 2010

The dec­la­ra­tion of inde­pen­dence as tweets.

Apple: Same value, lower price?

October 14, 2008

In this entry, I ana­lyze the dif­fer­ences between the old Mac­Book Pro and the new Mac­Book, based on Steve Jobs’ announce­ment that it was the same func­tion­al­ity for $700 less. Some­times, one has to do the research to dis­cover whether some­thing is true or not.

Culture Crash

September 29, 2008

As the finan­cial land­scape is being reshaped in one of the largest cri­sis of con­fi­dence ever encoun­tered by the Amer­i­can form of cap­i­tal­ism, I can­not help but won­der whether what we are wit­ness­ing is the begin­ning not just of an eco­nomic crash but also of a cul­tural crash. A few months ago, I started get­ting the feel­ing that we […]

Paying for the bailout

September 24, 2008

With a $700 bil­lion bailout planned by the gov­ern­ment, I go look­ing for sources where we can find the money to pay for this.

7

September 11, 2008

The mem­ory fades, the pain lev­els: 7 years ago today a lot of us lost our inno­cence. 7 years ago today, it seems both like a life­time away and an instant. But today, I can say that I got past most of the funk. Sure, I still look up in the sky when a plane flies lower than expected; Sure, I still get some […]

American Me

June 28, 2008

Yes­ter­day morn­ing, I entered a room filled with for­eign­ers. By the time I left, there were 240 new Amer­i­can cit­i­zens, myself included. My jour­ney to this moment is one that, in ret­ro­spect, would pretty much a given. Since 1992, I’ve been involved on the outer periph­ery of pres­i­den­tial elec­tions. In the mid-1990s, for a brief period, I was even lucky enough […]

Could Tech Support Undo Palm?

December 27, 2007

I’ve been a sup­porter of Palm for a very long time (in fact, I’ve been a sup­porter of Palm for longer than the com­pany itself has existed as I sup­ported it through the first iter­a­tion of the com­pany, its sub­se­quent acqui­si­tion by US Robot­ics, then 3COM, then its return to a new com­pany base, its merger with Hand­spring and its […]

Blogger’s Code of Conduct: a Dissection

April 9, 2007

Due to the recent ker­fun­kle over the Kathy Sierra affair, Tim O’Reilly has now pro­posed a “blogger’s code of con­duct” (cov­ered with no less than a front page arti­cle in today’s New York Times.) In this entry, I will dis­sect the code and high­light why I think such a code is a bad idea. June 26th of this year will mark […]

Dark Side of the Blogosphere

March 27, 2007

A por­tion of the blo­gos­phere is abuzz with com­ments relat­ing to the alleged death threats against Kathy Sierra . To recap, Kathy Sierra is the cre­ator of a pop­u­lar blog called “Cre­at­ing Pas­sion­ate Users.” In a recent post, she asserts that she has received death threats that are par­a­lyz­ing her with fear and left her so terrified […]

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