26 days ago
deusx : Night Life Reprogrammed - NYTimes.com - "Others attend hoping to meet venture capitalists; some are just attracted to a night life that involves actually talking to creative people doing exciting things, rather than heading out to clubs and bars that beat you into silence with their thunde
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27 days ago
veen : Open Source and Cloud Computing - O'Reilly Radar - "if you care about open source for the cloud, build on services that are designed to be federated rather than centralized. Architecture trumps licensing any time."
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2 month ago
deusx : WWJ Newsradio 950 - EPrize Lets Folks Go, But CEO Says It's Not A Layoff - Ouch. Company's fine, but these people suck? Kinda brutal to say. "We let go a handful of people, under 20, and it was performance related mainly"
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2 month ago
deusx : Backup Brain - "A big problem I have with these sort of blog posts, though, is that too many of them ... are written after one book, or one editor, or one publishing company. ... and you really can't extrapolate anything meaningful from a single data point."
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deusx : Napsterization- Girl Geek Dinner Yes; Porn Sponsor No - "the rest of us who would like to *not* be sexualized and objectified in our work lives really find the Zivity association disconcerting. I hope you aren't being used, but I also won't attend on Thursday night because I don't want to support Zivity.
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2 month ago
deusx : What is it like to write a technical book? at Xaprb - "I would say that avoiding the temptation to write, and outlining in fanatical detail, is a very high-value activity for writing a book that’s hierarchically organized like this. "
Jeremy Zawodny : What is it like to write a technical book? - What is it like to write a technical book?: 'You can cut your work down by about 75% if you keep working on more and more detailed outlines, long past the point you think you ought to start “writing.”' True. Lots of good stuff in that
Simon Willison : What is it like to write a technical book? - What is it like to write a technical book?. Plenty of food for thought from the lead author of the new edition of High Performance MySQL. It’s amazing how Word is still an integral part of most technical book projects despite its obvious inadequacies
philgyford : What is it like to write a technical book? at Xaprb - Great write-up of what it was really like to write a big complicated book, managed by rather disorganised people. (via Simon Willison)
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3 month ago
jcgregorio : Google I/O Sessions (Google I/O Session Videos and Slides) - That's a lot of presentations.
joshua : Google I/O Sessions (Google I/O Session Videos and Slides)
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4 month ago
deusx : Where do you connect with the Michigan Technology community? | Own Page One: Search Engine Visibility Blog - Online Marketing Strategy and Tips - "In a conversation with an out-of-stater earlier this week, I was asked what’s going on in the Michigan technology community, and what were the groups to connect with?"
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veen : Camcorder Brings Zen to the Shoot - New York Times - "if you're successful at something the first time you try, you fall instantly in love with it."
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veen : Hill Library Blog: The Entire Communications Industry, in Less than 200 Pages - "The 2007 Digital Economy Fact Book (pdf) is a tightwad researcher’s dream: In-depth, statistic-heavy, well-cited, and freely-available online. One could hardly ask for more."
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gleuschk : The God Particle - National Geographic Magazine - great photos of the LHC
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veen : Hype cycle - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia - "A hype cycle is a graphic representation of the maturity, adoption and business application of specific technologies."
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veen : Reaching for the Sky Through The Compute Clouds - ReadWriteWeb - "Is cloud computing a bad idea? Of course not. It is a wonderful, powerful idea. In this post, we explore the ideas behind cloud computing and argue that it will be an integral part of our future."
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veen : Demystifying Clouds - "In this article, I am going to try to demystify some of the hype around utility cloud computing and focus in on the companies that are providing cloud solutions and the technology components that they are using."
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deusx : BBC NEWS | South Asia | Close to the wire - the joys of speedcabling - "A new "sport" based around unravelling the mass of wires that can typically be found beneath computer desks the world over is taking off in the western US."
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Andy Baio : Political contributions from tech companies - Google loves Obama, Microsoft loves Hillary, and Yahoo! employees hang on to their money [via]
nelson : Tech employee campaign contributions - Goldman breaks down the numbers for Google, Yahoo, Microsoft, etc employees. Amazon sure loves their Libertarian nutjob.
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8 month ago
gleuschk : What I learned about network television at Dateline NBC. - the United States is arguably more isolated and less educated about the world than it was a half-century ago. In a time of such broad technological change, how can this possibly be the case?
Ethan Marcotte : "You Don’t Understand Our Audience": What I learned about network television at Dateline NBC - "To me, the term 'shareholder value' sounded like Mao's 'right path,' although this was not something I shared at the employee reëducation meetings." ∞
philgyford : "You Don't Understand Our Audience" by John Hockenberry - "...a series of lessons I learned about how television news had lost its most basic journalistic instincts in its search for the audience-driven sweet spot, the 'emotional center' of the American people." (via Oblinks)
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8 month ago
gleuschk : The Mythical 5% - very similar things could be said about mathematicians
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9 month ago
gleuschk : :: Shell-Shocked :: Windows Symbolic and Hard Links - might be a solution to FolderShare's retrictions. Pretty roundabout, tho.
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10 month ago
WillPate : Eye-Fi: How One Little Chip Will Change the Way You Share Pictures - Put the wifi in the memory card - brilliant
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11 month ago
deusx : Jim Minatel: ASP.NET, XML, CSS, Ajax Book Editor: Wrox Blox launches with Silverlight, Adobe AIR, IPhone and LINQ - "Wrox Blox are short, electronic-only, downloadable, and typically going to be on hot cutting edge topics. For short, these first few range from about 20-40 pages ... And, here's something I think you'll find cool: they're DRM free."
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11 month ago
deusx : The Changing Publishing Landscape - Introducing Wrox Blox » Chris Webb on Publishing, Media, and Technology - "Today we have launched Wrox Blox, a new product for programmers that hopefully will strike a chord with a market that often looks to the web for fast, bite-sized content."
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11 month ago
deusx : Wrox::Wrox Blox - "Excited about new technology? Stumped on a problem? Trying to keep up with new software releases but don't have time to read an entire book? Then Wrox Blox are the answer!"
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11 month ago
joshua : Learning @ Your Own Pace® - lynda.com - online tech training classes
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14 month ago
deusx : ASCII by Jason Scott: Nailing It - "Quag7, one of my contemporaries and collaborators, absolutely nails how to put up an informative webpage about a technically geeky and nostalgic subject."
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