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| Friday, November 11, 2005 |
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clueView 
| | I'm digging how smartly iView is plugging into the blogo-photosphere. Here's a company that competes very creatively and successfully with Adobe and Apple, offering and improving products that complement both — plus other players in the marketplace — at the same time. They have an terrific blog, an active user forum, and they know how to relate to the marketplace. |
| | For example, dig the company's Flickr site. Note how they use sets and tags. I give a lot of credit to Shayne Bowman, whose title is "Chief User Experience Architect and iVangelist". Shayne co-authored We Media, contributes to the HypergeneMediaBlog, and generally stays about as participatory as a particatory journalist and businessperson can get. |
| | But it clearly goes beyond Shayne. You can tell when a company gets as many clues as it gives, and that's clearly the job of pretty much everybody at the place. |
Starting our Seventh Year of Almost Continual Service
| | Thanks again to Dave for pushing me — and all the rest of us — onto a train we're all still learning to ride. |
Department of Corrections
| | I notice, however, that CNN's source is Google Earth. Which happens to be one of the most amazing programs ever written... but still, sometimes, wrong. |
Now we know why Sideways was so down on Merlot.
Ride on!
| | My old pal  Richard has a blog. This is so cool. I haven't seen Richard in years. We live, quite literally, on opposite coasts. (Think of Santa Barbara as the Wilmington of California.) Hell, I didn't even know Richard was into bikes. His last athletic obsession that I remember was windsurfing. Great to see he's staying in shape. Dude is an freaking inspiration. I mean, he's actually older than me. (Something that's getting increasingly rare, lately.)
Okay, tell ya what, Richard. I'm gonna get on that old ... I don't even know what kind of bike it is. Hybrid, I think. No idea what brand. I got it used at a bike shop in Isla Vista. Has a buncha gears, which confuses me, but they do work. Brakes are good, tires fair. (That last sentence is a line by Commander Cody in Hot Rod Lincoln, which we used to play while drinking home brew and hanging out in the Red House at Oxbow where Richard and the rest of our crowd lived, thirty years ago.) And I'm gonna try to make it up the hill here. We're at 500 feet. The top is 950. In 3/10s of a mile. Kinda steep. But... we'll see. I'll report back later. Unless I have a stroke or a heart attack. |
Exploring nature
| | Kernel space is where the Linux species lives. User space is where Linux gets put to use, along with a lot of other natural building materials. The division between kernel space and user space is similar to the division between natural materials and stuff humans make out of those materials. |
| | More clues came from the language being used. Tree. Fork. Branch. Bug. Viability. Longevity. Even kernel is a term from nature. |
| | Combine that with a very active development community already (Nokia was smart in seeding it with devices, very wise move) I think this will be one platform that will be worth watching for some time. The number of applications will only grow and get better. It's already fun to use a xterm on the thing. |
| | Now to wait for the kernel source tree for it to be released so I can get to tweaking on it, and figure out why they are using my pl2303 driver when I don't see a serial output anywhere... |
| | Developer relations is a mating game. The platform vendors are the guys. Developers are the girls. Send flowers. You always score big. Like wives and girlfriends, developers just want to be cared for. It's the little things that count. That's a big secret. |
What he isn't
| | Rex Hammock: I'll agree with one thing. I'm not a consumer generating content. |
| | Nor was Walt Whitman when he wrote, I too am not a bit tamed. I too am untranslatable. I sound my barbaric yawp over the roofs of the world. |
| | Another: As Steve Mays says, But always remember, real bloggers don't whine. |
| | [Later...] That last line above was a real insight, and not something I noticed before. Also nice to read this from oook. |
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