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| Monday, March 31, 2003 |
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Wanted: blue collar Linux example 
| | I'm in the market right now for an example of Linux (and/or LAMP) working on the job, saving money, providing an livid example of the applied intelligence of those putting it to work — in a manufacturing setting. The older and rustier the manufactured product & setting, the better. But that's not a necessity. A pharmaceutical or some other modern manufacturing setting would be fine, too. Think photo-op here. |
| | If you've got something, or can point me to an example, I'd be much obliged. Thank you. |
Birth of Cobloggeration
| | Dave points today to this piece by Jim Moore. When I saw that I thought, Hmm... Is this the same Jim Moore who wrote The Death of Competition a few years back? Jim was one of Jerry Michalski's original retreaters, back in August, 1996. His book had just come out, as I recall. We had some deep conversations there. That was also the retreat where I first met Chris Locke, who was also dubbed RageBoy that very same weekend. |
| | Small world. Smaller 'sphere. |
From the HomeWeb Security Office...
Brotherly Blog
More Cluetrain effects
| | I just booked a Ramada Limited in Silicon Valley with free high speed internet and a bunch of other pleasantries for $65 or so per night. Not bad. Also got a Ford Focus (my favorite rental car) for $35.99/day from Budget. Could be worse. |
| | I'm finding that the Internet tire-kicking services have really pounded down the prices of hotels and related services. |
| | By the way, the Cluetrain site is now more than four years old. |
The embedded front
Blog Ops
| | ...a well-known techie. But in an earlier life, he was a USAF Special Ops soldier. He's not an armchair pundit, in other words, but someone who knows what death is like, close up. The mainstream media has no room — and no appetite — for his views. But thousands of people on the net do. And now they can hear his voice, and add their own to it. The internet, said a US judge in a landmark judgment, 'is a never-ending global conversation'. So it is: and, boy, do we need it just now. |
| | Also this from a veteran who served with a different branch (guess which one?): |
| | USAF Special Ops are folks who fly Army special ops types. They deliver the "package" do insertion, retrieval. The USAF has no on-the-ground combat troops. Not to say the guy hasn't seen a lot, but he is USAF - the service that came into being by selling Roosevelt and Churchill on the value of saturation bombing. |
| | Take it with a dose of salt, or of salt water, anyway. |
| | Semi-related: Your Word also reminds me how blogging — especially in time of war — serves as one big fact-checking system, regardless of the politics involved. |
| | I love all the 'stans in The Agonist's blogroll. |
Springtime in Webland
| | This flowering wouldn't be possible if the Net hadn't progressed beyond its basic protocols to the point we've reached: a permission-free zone where anybody with an idea can launch a web service without a preliminary buy-in by existing vested interests. This freedom to innovate is the third leg of the Net's NEA stool: Nobody owns it, Everyone can use it, Anybody can improve it. If the Net's open protocols weren't in place and agreed upon, we could never improve it with the more highly abstracted, software-only, permission-free improvements, social software really, that we can now imagine together. |
Eyeblog
| | The administration does not have a perception"? Individuals saying what they think? |
| | Does this mean he's aboard the cluetrain? |
Value-Addvertising
| | I just went back to the page to quote more of the ad, and the new placements were for Reuters Iraq Updates and "Peace e-cards." |
| | So a problem is starting to show up here: You run the high risk of losing one link out of two when you click on one. After I clicked on "Reuters Iraq Updates" (which went to the Reuters' main page, not to an Iraq subdirectory), I went back to find "Peace e-cards" replaced by The Threatening Storm. After going there and coming back, the Reuters ad was still there, but the other was replaced by Crisis in Iraq. |
| | Not sure what the algo' there is, but it's got a small flaw in the way it de-persists one link out of two. |
| | Otherwise, it's a remarkable system: advertising you might actually like. |
Dive into Peace
| | Mark Pilgrim has a boffo Peaceblogroll. He says, People who say they can¹t find evidence of a peaceblogging movement should probably try harder. A big thanks to Mark and Tim for making it easier. |
| | While we're on the subject, heres a scary piece from Washington Monthly that claims the Administration's real objectives go far beyond Iraq. Kinda reminds me of a Wiford Brimley line from Absence of Malice (a movie Brimley steals in just one scene): Are you that smart? I kinda don't think so, I dunno. |
| | What they've got going for them is that our maladroitness politically and diplomatically has put us in a real bind. There is no doubt in my mind that Saddam Hussein is an unpopular guy in Iraq, but he's running against George Bush. If you're an Iraqi, you've gotta decide who you're going to vote for here. |
| | I hate it when military plans are made with optimistic assumptions of that kind. I never made a plan that relied on the courage of my own troops. You hope that -- and they generally will -- fight bravely. Your plan ought to be predicated on more realistic assumptions. |
| | And if we sent the 3rd Infantry up there naked, by themselves, because somebody assessed that they'd be throwing bouquets at us, that's the worst thing you could say about political leadership, is that they made optimistic assumptions about warfare... |
| | When we started bombing Kosovo, everybody in the world saw that -- how painful that decision was. They knew we weren't there to make Kosovo the 51st state; they knew we didn't go into Afghanistan to put George Bush's face on the money there. When we act with legitimacy, it gives our military actions a source of strength. I mean for me this is an aspect of the political maladroitness. I mean you just have to say that you wonder if there's anybody in the White House that's an educated adult. |
| | That's from Gen. Merrill A. "Tony" McPeak, retired U.S. Air Force chief of staff. By the way, he says the war is going "remarkably well," considering. |
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