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And the Jimmy Cagney prize goes to...
| | And having spoken of which, here's some more on the Allchin/Stallman (let's call it 4L) fracas a couple months back. Thanks to the Lemur for that one. |
Take this job and ship it:
| | Thanks to Brad Hutchings for pointing us to Philip Greenspun's ArsDigita story, and for this piece of wisdom: I think a lot of otherwise smart people have difficulty embracing "service" over "shipping" as a business model because we/they tend to interact most and are most inspired by great products rather than great service. |
Leveraging the Lemur:
Today's homily:
| | Garrison Keillor on A Prairie Home Companion: And so as long as it does, we should injoy what we have, which is life. There is God in our midst with a tennis ball in His hand. And we are crouching oun our hauches in front of Him and panting. Spit is dripping from our little black lips. It is so exiting. As many times as God has thrown that ball, we never tire of it. When He thows that long throw, even old dogs go running after it.... The ball flies. It bounces... They get hold of the ball and bring it back to God. And He gets ready to throw it again. He can do this a thousand tines... a million times. He cocks his arm. It looks like it'll be a high one this time... pantpantpantpant... |
| | I heard that yesterday on the train and actually remembered to tape the repeat broadcast today, but... I remembered too late to get a tape in a recorder (or even to find a recorder, since we transported most of them already to Santa Barbara). So the best I could do transcibe the thing, live, here in Radio. Not perfect, but hey: you can hear it yourslelf on the Web when the show archive comes up here. |
But love is something else. Love makes you crazy.
| | IBM has been getting all kinds of heat over its crush on Linux. I gave it a withering blast a while back (for which I caught some justifiable heat). Then came Slashdot and Kuro5hin. Unable to carve "IBM + Linux" into the bark of a tree, Big Blue has sent forth troops of flacks to paint expressions of corporate affection on sidewalks in San Francisco, getting themselves, of course, in trouble. What's really weird about this is that, from what I can tell, the feelings are real. IBM can't help wearing a blue suit (like Mark Twain couldn't help wearing a white one); but not very deep down, where the company consists entirely of engineers, IBM is a nearsighted geek with face hair. |
| | The BizPubs see Tux Love as a strategy for fighting Microsoft, but in fact the company's main business is still hardware & services, where Microsoft is just another source of complications — and therefore of increased service-related income. The fight that really matters is the one that didn't happen when IBM's blue-suited brass discovered that the company geeks had already adopted Linux and Apache without permission, and put both to good use. |
The Ultimate Bug
| | Bernie DeKoven, whose fingerprints are on the much-loved MORE and many other wonderful things for which he gets scant credit, has been the world's most resolute advocate of something which, incredibly, has a hard time advocating itself. And that's fun. |
| | Of course we know what fun is about. But not the collective corpus we call a corporation. We casually call corporations "players," when they are anything but — even in the most sporting sense of the word. |
| | Able only to perceive (or worse, "create") a market's appetite for fun, the best BigCorps have been able to do is "deliver" entertainment in packaged form. |
| | Look back at Cluetrain and you'll find it expresses no less a call for humor than it does for conversation, respect, and the sound of human voices. And yet, strangely, it's been harder to talk about than any of that other stuff. |
| | Now Giles comes through with evidence that Dreamworks may actually enjoy playing around with customers who enjoy playing with each other, maybe because there really is nothing better to do. |
| | And nothing more infectious. |
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