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I'm a non-coder would like to learn some code in his spare time. I know CSS, HTML, and C (thus he knows the basics of loops, arrays, structures, etc). What should read/download/use to learn code, especially web-based code.

July 8, 2008 - Comment - Like - Share

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I would recommend the extensive free online tutorials at http://www.asp.net/learn/ to learn C# and ASP.NET - the programming language is robust, and there's a lot of great resources there. - Nathan Chase

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If you know C, you may want to check out Perl (perl.com, by O'Reilly. Great books. perlmonks.org is also good). The newer scripting languages, like Ruby, PHP, etc., may be easier to learn; I don't know. But you can do a ton of stuff with Perl. - Larry Huffman

Python is having a lot of buzz lately and it's a great language to get started. Both http://docs.python.org/tut/ and http://www.ibiblio.org/g2swap... are great resources to start. - Jeduan Cornejo

PHP is super easy and basically C-like. http://www.php.net/manual/en/ - Kevin L

PHP is probably easiest to get started with, since it comes default with most cheap hosting accounts. Python and Ruby are a *lot* more fun, but there's more infrastructure required -- it's not too bad, but it definitely adds to the learning curve. - Peat Bakke from Alert Thingy

Ben, in your case PHP would be easier compared to Python. PHP syntax is similar to C while Python syntax is very different and has a steep learning curve. - Rameez Nooruddin

PHP is super easy to learn from a C background, and it's easy to find/set up a server that will run it. Try http://www.php.net/manual... for some tips to get going - Kevin L

+1 for ruby - dK

Thomas Hawk

First hints of Microsoft’s “fight back” ads appear | Ed Bott’s Microsoft Report | ZDNet.com - http://blogs.zdnet.com/Bott...

July 22, 2008 from Bookmarklet - Comment - Like - Share

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Personally I'm a huge fan of Vista and think that it is a *vast* improvement over XP. Media Center, especially, in Vista is so much faster and more reliable. In order to really enjoy Vista though I think you need more power, memory, etc. I upgraded to even just a low end $1,100 Dell PC and it was like night and day over my old PC with XP on it. I'm a big fan of Vista. - Thomas Hawk from Bookmarklet

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Nothing compares to Mac. - orionstarr

Nice artwork, not sure I get the point though. - Wes Hoogenboom

orionstarr, I definitely love my Mac too -- my MacBook Pro is still my primary computer. And those Mac ads are funny as hell. But Vista was a huge step forward for Microsoft in my opinion and Apple can't touch MSFT in the home media/entertainment market. Media Center is about 2 years ahead of AppleTV, what I call the iDongle. - Thomas Hawk

I agree, Thomas. Now, I've only used the 64 bit version of Vista Ultimate, but the memory management far surpasses that of XP (32 bit and 64 bit). I'm current;y running a 2.4 GHz Core2Duo with 2 GB of RAM, and the comparison of 64 bit XP Pro vs. 64 bit Vista Ultimate is night and day. For 64 bit Windows it's Vista all the way (but I'll stick with FreeBSD). - Raymond Mendoza

it will be interesting to see what this develops into. We may not take this into account but MS ads are pretty freakin kool looking. Ever see their Server ads in the trade publications? What will be interesting is how they go about dealing with the Mac ads. I just hope it doesn't turn into the spin-game we are used to seeing in politics. If they are smart about it, it will work. The fanboy isnt going anywhere. And then you have the tech whores, like me, that use both products happily at work and at home. - Carlos Ayala

My disappointment with Vista wasn't with Microsoft. It was with other vendors and their lack of support for the OS. With the release date being pushed back for years, you would think getting your software and drivers ready would be pretty simple, but it must not have been. One core application that I *have* to run is Cisco's VPN client. Cisco did a terrible job creating a Vista version... more... - Otto R. Radke

I have five machines, all running Vista. Two are Sony VAIO laptops and two are 64-bit. They all run flawlessly. Only issues I've ever encountered have been driver issues which are not Microsoft's fault. Do I think that Vista is the greatest operating system on the planet? No, of course not. Everyone with any sense at all knows that's OS/2. Sheesh! - Akiva Moskovitz

Otto, I think the issue with the vendors (especially hardware vendors) was that they didn't have anything to write drivers for. For the longest time Vista was supposed to be what they are now promising in Windows 7. I agree a lot of software vendors really dropped the ball, but when it comes to the hardware, I think it was Microsoft's fault. - Raymond Mendoza

Raymond, that doesn't hold water because drivers continued to be an issue long after Vista hit the shelves. There were quite a few issues with the pre-release driver SDK (especially for sound cards) but the fact that it took 3-6 months after release to stabilize the drivers says a lot about the vendors. In fact, many took the stance that they weren't even going to bother until they were convinced that Vista was going to be worth their effort. - Akiva Moskovitz

Heck, some vendors have yet to produce any Vista drivers at all such as Kensington, for example. I can't program the four buttons on the Kensington Expert Mouse so I'm at the mercy of installed software to (hopefully) set some defaults (thank you, Firefox, for using all four buttons). - Akiva Moskovitz

I think they're going to have to do a lot better than that to sway public opinion. - Paul Grav

@Thomas. Media Center is indeed a nice piece of software, shame nobody's using it. - Paul Grav

I think it's a good start but the only thing that will really right the wrongs that Vista has wrought will be positive word-of-mouth. The more people who hear success stories from friends and friends-of-friends, the more people will begin to re-evaluate their negative [and, sadly, often unproven] bias. - Akiva Moskovitz

what was the last mac operating system to fail? thought so. - orionstarr

What about MacOS?? This OS really good!! - obolonskyi

How quickly people forget: System 7 had extremely fragile and strict hardware requirements (moreso than Vista, I dare say). I had never spent more time on a tech support line for an OS in my life than when I was dealing with those two operating systems and a pair of 7500s and an 8100 (if I remember correctly). Constant lock-ups, crashes, compatibility issues with a variety of software (Aldus Pagemaker, for example). It was a nightmare. - Akiva Moskovitz

I'm trying to figure out what this ad is supposed to suggest. The strongest message I'm getting is a romantic tip of the hat to Thomas Kinkade and high seas piracy. Or, maybe they're suggesting I'm just a sheep and need to be better informed about the state of the world? I'm confused. - Peat Bakke from Alert Thingy

A better ad caption would read "Arrrrr. Tis true matety. Vista. She doesn't blow" - Andrew Smith

Arrr. Ye need at least 2 gigs of memory to walk this here plank! - Akiva Moskovitz

i've always used mac. just simpler, not buggy, no viruses. easier to create my art and podcasts on it. Plus you get more for your money in my opinion. Macs also hold up longer in time. I'm still running my mac at home that is over 5 years old! still fast! never crashed once. - orionstarr

Thomas: "Apple can't touch MSFT in the home media/entertainment market". Um, I REALLY beg to differ. I can rent a movie and play it on my iMac, my Air, or my iPhone(!). Not too shabby home media wise. The only thing I can't do is DVR stuff, which my TiVo handles great and I don't need that from my computer. BTW I have an Apple TV and I love it - it could use more rentable titles but the interface is wonderful and it works almost perfectly. - Steve Isaacs

Damn, they should have hired a washed up actor who will never be able to act again without hinting at the product he once sold his soul for. - Stephan Miller from Alert Thingy

Cheers to that, Andrew! It's practically begging for someone to add in a Jolly Roger ... - Peat Bakke from Alert Thingy

Thomas: "Apple can't touch MSFT in the home media/entertainment market". Um, I REALLY beg to differ. And I have an Apple TV and I love it. - Steve Isaacs "Well for home media entertainment my PS3 does the trick. Soon i'll be able to download HD and SD movies right online. Plus so much more - orionstarr

As a quote "Apple Fanboy", I will tread lightly here. There were plenty of Mac OSes that failed. I think Akiva rightly pointed out that System 7 was a severe headache. Most also don't remember that prior to System 7, you couldn't even multitask on a Mac. In my opinion, the only truly stable older MacOS release was MacOS 8.5 (and 8.6). I hated using all of the releases of OS 9. Most current Apple users don't remember these days, sadly, and have only recently reaped the benefits of being a Mac user. - Raymond Mendoza

Apple Fanboy you are talking about an OS that is like 10 years old! Since the release of OSX those versions have been the best for mac! - orionstarr

I'd also like to suggest that a lot of Mac fanboyishness/Vista hatred is more emotionally driven than empirically driven. - Akiva Moskovitz

Akiva: How quickly people forget? System 7 came out 17 years ago!!! (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki...) - Steve Isaacs

True it is emotion because i'm tired of mac being put down when they put out one hell of a product and OS. Windows always gets the credit though and windows users think their crap doesn't stink. - orionstarr

Steve can your AppleTV play a netflix DVD? Does your AppleTV come with a built in dvr? Can it support cablecard HDTV? Can it easily handle a library with 100,000 mp3s? Can your AppleTV play games as well as an Xbox360 or allow you to easily stream content to cheaper extender boxes throughout your home? Apple's iDongle is a pretty big failure in my book. - Thomas Hawk

MY PS3 does everything media related I need. Movies, games, music, computer and internet can all be accessed wirelessly through my HDTV love it! - orionstarr

orionstarr, are you kidding me? Many Mac users are the most smug, self-righteous OS proselytizers on the planet. They make Linux users look like Zen monks in the midst of a winter's-long zazen session. I happen to adore OS X and plan on buying a MacBook Pro later this year and I fully recognize that Vista has had a ton of problems so at least I try to be practical about it. But, if anyone gets put down constantly, it's Vista users. - Akiva Moskovitz

Steve, shhhhhhhhhhhhhhh. You'll ruin my argument! - Akiva Moskovitz

Thomas: Actually, yes. My iDongle (I like that name) can play and stream a lot of the content you speak of via iTunes. Sadly, you've got me on the DVD part, though I could probably rip them via HandBrake and play them via iTunes (though there is the legality issue with the NetFlix part). No gaming, either. Doesn't effect me much. I don't game. - Raymond Mendoza

To the Mac not failing, don't forget that Apple almost died an untimely death because their business model was horrible and the only reason to run a Mac was to run Photoshop or Pagemaker. It took Steve coming back and making extreme changes, like moving towards a UNIX base for OSX and removing the floppy from their machines. By the way, there was plenty of complaining about those moves... more... - Eric @ CS Techcast

I don't know Akiva from my experience mac users always get the shaft as if they use an inferior product. You wonder why we are so smug! lol - orionstarr

orionstarr, yeah, it's all anecdotal at this point. Most people I know have the following opinion about the Mac: I'd love to have one but I can't afford it. I fall into that category myself. The MacBook Pro I want will run me nearly $3,000. For 1/3rd that price, I built a faster, bigger PC that does everything that the Mac will do. So, yeah. For what it's worth. - Akiva Moskovitz

CS Techcast, well put. - Akiva Moskovitz

I agree with CS Techcast, Mac did have to make a lot of changes back then. I remember it to. Most users hated the direction mac was going. I originally hated jaguar and didn't understand what Apple was doing. But now it all makes sense. I'm more proud than ever to be a mac user. I want apple everything! Ooops i'm being smug again! - orionstarr

It is always a disappointment when this type of conversation turns into a religious war between operating systems. How about we keep it on track and focus on how MS could improve Vista? Talking about what what worked and didn't work that relates to Vista and has a subtle tie into another OS is okay, anything over that derails the conversation. - Otto R. Radke

I wouldn't say I love Windows Vista, but I do regard it as an improvement over XP. But I also regard XP has a *terrible* OS. My biggest complaint about Vista is that there weren't *more* improvements, but there's nothing I can complain about in Vista that wasn't already an issue in XP. OSX and Ubuntu are better than both. As for the media center thing, I went the Mac Mini route. It's not ultra-elegant, but it's cheap and does the trick for me. Personally, I don't think anyone has gotten that right yet. - Eric P

if you have only Macintosh on your hand swinging, everything around turns into apples :) - A.T.

Raymond, the Netflix 3 disc at a time plan is a *far* better deal than paying Apple $4 every time you want to watch a show/movie. It will take me about a 2 months on Netflix to go through the entire 60 episodes of The Wire. That costs me about $40. The same content on the iDongle renting it from Apple would have cost me about $240. Even if it took you 6 months to watch the Wire it still would be a better deal from Netflix than the iDongle. - Thomas Hawk

Apple's "strategic" decision not to include a cheap $15 DVD player in the iDongle is just so that they can bone you by renting you overpriced content from iTunes -- the same iTunes that absolutely chokes on my 100,000 mp3 library due to "album art" and "gapless playback" processing. The bottom line is iTunes sucks for serious media consumption and that's where Vista and Media Center are two years ahead of AppleTV. - Thomas Hawk

So, what is the ad saying? If you don't love Vista, you're a medieval-minded flat-earther? Fascinating approach. Not about the product, but the reader. If you don't love us, you're a dope. Works for me. - Michael Markman

Michael, I think the message is more that sometimes what is the agreed upon consensus is wrong. I've seen a ton of stuff out there on the internet saying MSFT OS's sucks -- heck Apple built a whole marketing campaign out of this. I feel like I'm pretty open minded and use both Macs and PCs. That said I think XP *did* have problems but I think Vista is a far superior experience if it is installed on the right PC (i.e. a new PC vs. an upgrade on an old PC). - Thomas Hawk

At one point, everyone thought you had to use Microsoft Windows for work, too. (I have both OSX and Vista, and god, Vista sucks.) - Tom Karlo

Otto R. Radke, I agree, bashing helps no one, but it always devolves into that. That's from a former Apple IIe owner and I loved that computer. The things Vista could do better; deal with lag of screen re UAC (UAC will not and should not go away), require driver signing/WHQL testing on 32 bit as they do on 64 bit to get better support from 3rd parties for key components. Just a couple. - Eric @ CS Techcast

Disagree Thomas. Do you need 100,000 MP3s before you are a serious consumer of media? I have about 20,000 tracks and iTunes copes fine. I also route content around the house to an AppleTV and two Airport Expresses. Content I download from iTunes is synced automatically to the iPhone. Which is also used as a remote to stream music from iTunes to my wireless speakers & Apple TV. Podcasts paused part way through on the iPhone resume playback position on my Mac.Put simply, they all work together beautifully - Jamie

..But I digress. Vista is not nearly as bad as people make out. While I prefer to use my Mac, Vista is a significant improvement on XP in almost every respect. But given XPs abnormally long innings as the industry standard, the transition to Vista has been more painful than it should in respect to drivers and hardware compatibility. Kudos to Apples marketing team for pouncing on that fact.. they've given Microsoft a bit of work to do to redress the perception - Jamie

I'm glad Microsoft is starting to fight back. Vista does have its annoyances, but I can't imagine going back to XP. Due to work and gaming, I don't want to switch to the Mac or Linux. - Alan Le

Ok, I just remixed the new Microsoft ad to make a friendlier more Pro-Pirate version. http://thomashawk.com/2008... - Thomas Hawk

I can't believe I'm feeling sad for MSFT. I think they should clone the Avis "We Try Harder" campaign. - Sean Savage

Thomas, your remix says this to me: Pirate Vista! - Akiva Moskovitz

Akiva, if the shoe fits, wear it. Peace brother. Software wants to be free. - Thomas Hawk

Not sure why all of the XP bashing. I have 3 machines, that are running XP and they are all extremely stable, do what I need them to do, network fine, do wireless fine. Now I'm sure that Vista has some nice new features, but I'm not sure how they could improve upon the stability that I have been experiencing on my XP machines for the past 4+ years. Can someone be specific about what makes Vista far superior to XP from a functionality stand point? (I'm not impressed with see through windows etc.) - Jeff P. Henderson

I still have a couple of XP machines here. I've not found a need to upgrade to Vista, and as I usually build my own machines, it could be a while before I do. I might well skip Vista, and go to Windows 7 or whatever it ends up getting called. - Ian May from twhirl

Vista is fine - kinda good even. Sorry if it doesn't work with your ancient HP printer or archaic Canon PowerShot A40. Of course a Mac is better - but Vista is fine. - Noah Carter

I just don't think that an OS should be a political or sociological choice. Yet some people seem to believe that the OS you use defines you as a person. And Mac and Linux users are especially guilty of constantly intruding on Windows conversations to be smug or condescending. The solution to any Windows problem has fuck all to do with Mac or Linux. It's like suggesting someone buy a new car when one of their tires goes flat: it's not helpful. - Akiva Moskovitz

Like Ian and JEff, above, I'm running XP still. It's tweaked to the gills. I'm sure I'll be getting Vista with my next PC by default, but I'm curious as to what Vista does so well compared to XP? I feel my XP experience can't get any better, or than I can be made more productive by Vista. I'm also sure that just like with my XP installaation, with Vista, I'll probably turn off a lot of the glitz. Anyone have any links to the must-have Vista features? Or what your favorite things about it are? - Todd

I wish i could say "don't like" on friend feed.. - Brian Ries

Brian, it's called 'Hide'. - Akiva Moskovitz

Sorry it's partly my fault I shouldn't of made a statement that Macs are better. To each their own - happy computing - orionstarr

This is not the Vista you are looking for. Take the red pill and get a mac. - Gabriel Madrigal

Marshall Kirkpatrick

showing off twitter to nonprofit folks - woo hoo! care to say hello?

July 16, 2008 from Twitter - Comment - Like - Share

... don't forget FriendFeed. ;) - Peat Bakke from Alert Thingy

Thomas Hawk

Heading up to Seattle on Wed. Anyone have any suggestions for what I might want to shoot? I'll be at Microsoft on Wed/Thurs and Seattle on Fri.

July 7, 2008 - Comment - Like - Share

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Things in Seattle I'm definitely going to shoot. Public Library, Pike Place Market, Sculpture Park, Pioneer Square, St. James Cathedral, maybe the aquarium. Any other gems that would make great locations? Any great cityscape spots or bridge overpasses? Anything especially interesting to shoot at MSFT campus? - Thomas Hawk

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Unfortunately it looks like the Seattle Art Museum doesn't allow photography. - Thomas Hawk

If you have time, add http://www.empsfm.org/index... to your list - Otto R. Radke

I wanted to shoot the Gasworks Park at night while I was there, but it rained, and rained. :-( - cmiper

The market, the aquarium come to mind - Brian Sullivan

Not from Seattle but isn't the Hendrix Museum(or whatever they call it) there and on your list? - Mark Forman

Fishing tossing at Pike's Place Market - Scott Wamsley

I don't know much about Seattle, but now that the Sonics are leaving town, there could be something interesting to shoot regarding that - Will Hirsbrunner

there's a building which is on a spire, http://www.phototrek.org/Photos... - clarke thomas

Mark last time I was there the EXP museum (I am guessing that is the "Hendrix Museum" you were referring to ) did not allow photography - Brian Sullivan

Suggestions for things to shoot. How about Ballmer, what a disgrace. - Dread Pirate PJ

Oh, you mean with a CAMERA! Sorry, no idea - Dread Pirate PJ

Otto unfortunately the Experience Music Project doesn't allow photography so I'll be skipping it like the Seattle Art Museum. Would love to shoot both but with limited time in Seattle I'd rather not focus on renegade photography. - Thomas Hawk

hmmm.. Gasworks Park at night sounds interesting. Will have to check that out. I have the Troll on my list as well but he's a bit out of the main central area, so going to shoot that if I've got time. Anyone know of any particularly stellar views from hotels or other public access spaces to get to? - Thomas Hawk

Go for something unusual! http://www.undergroundtour.com/ - Peat Bakke from Alert Thingy

but shooting outside of Experience Music Project has some cool possiblities. And there's the carnival rides around the space needle / monorail station near there, too. I remember it feeling very 70's there. - J.J. Toothman

Try shooting a local Farmer's Market, Farmer Markets FTW!! Really interesting seeing old school collide with local techies. - E.B.

Pioneer Square is cool...Some interesting stuff on the waterfront...West Seattle near Salty's could be good...OH, the Ballard Locks! For sure! With the good weather, lots of boats will be out and about on the Lake... - Live4Emma (L4S)

I'm thinking I'll go up the Space Needle and EMP on Thurs night maybe and shoot the exteriors. Wish I could shoot inside EMP. I've shot the Space Needle before though so who knows, maybe I'll find a better place to shoot on Thurs night. Especially looking for interesting neon or graffiti as well. - Thomas Hawk

Lake Union at 6:30 AM, when the various crews come out to practice. Kenmore Air (seaplane air service) also uses Lake Union. Try the Ballard Locks for the boats and the salmon working their way upstream. - Laurie Sefton from twhirl

Thomas. I recommend: Troll in Fremont, view from Golden Gardens Park, Alki (W. Seattle), Ballard Locks, Discovery Park, University of Washington Campus, Arboretum, Seattle Underground tour, view from top of Queen Anne hill, view of Cascades & Olympic Mountains from Phinney Ridge. How's that for a list? If you need graffitti, near the University District, there is a ginormous Mural just north of the University bridge. Very cool stuff. - Brian Daniel Eisenberg

Dial me, buddy. - l0ckergn0me

The Columbia Center allows tourists up on their observation deck -- much better panoramas than the needle (and costs less as well). The Boeing field airplane museum would be great but I don't think they allow photography either ( I was there with a Microsoft private party though and there were no restrictions) - Brian Sullivan

There used to be an old guy who wandered Pike Place constantly photographing women with long hair. Was this guy creepy? - don't know - just remember hearing of him from friend (who had hair half the length of her body). Anyway, find out if he Qik's with an N95 now. - Micah Wittman

There can never be enough photos of the space needle. - Jacob

The capitol hill area - east of DT - has the best graffiti / underground art - Erica Toelle

Rainier or the ballparks. - Steve Rubel

EMP, SFM. The SFM has a robot display now on. - Dave Martin

Bruce & Brando Lee grave site. - Mark Anderson

Photograph Valve game studios. Extra points for Gabe Newell. - CannonGod

I sure like those Amaon Fresh people in Seattle. Fun and intersting. - Julie Anderson

Seattle: Try the Pacific Medical building at the top of beacon hill - it's lit up nicely at night. Pioneer square at night also has interesting lighting after dark. If you can get access to the top of a building like the Columbia Center, you would get some great cityscapes. - Waqas Ahmed

I think I mentioned on another thread that if you have time try to see Art Wolfe and his gallery. - Johnny Sewell

Scott Kveton

Tryin' to figure out how this is a win for Converse: http://www.outofyourleaguegirl...

July 7, 2008 from Twitter - Comment - Like - Share

My teeth started grinding about 30 seconds into it. Maybe it's supposed to be funny? Crap, I think this may be another signal that I've left the "young white mall rat with extra money" demographic. - Peat Bakke from Alert Thingy

Aaron B. Hockley

@jamartens I can only speak for myself but I've seen more downtime and errors from Twitter than I have from Identica.

July 3, 2008 from Twitter - Comment - Like - Share

Of course you've seen more downtime and errors from Twitter than identi.ca. They've been around, what, a day and a half? - Josh Bancroft

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What's going to happen when identi.ca has to scale to the size and number of users that Twitter has? If it's slow and shaky now... - Josh Bancroft

And identi.ca doesn't even have all of its features turned on yet! They're missing replies, SMS, an API, and a ton of other stuff. - Josh Bancroft

(I've been reading and posting these replies from FriendFeed. Here, Twitter is fast and stable. FF IS the best Twitter client. - Josh Bancroft

Since the Identi.ca software is open source, Russell Beattie already has a few choice things to say about it's capability to scale. http://www.russellbeattie.com/blog... Of course ... it's open source ... if knowledgable developers pick up the baton and decide to contribute fixes, they may be able to manage the growth better. But, not if it chokes before people get interested. :) - Peat Bakke from Alert Thingy

Jeremiah Owyang

How many of you don't directly get paid to blog, but it has become part of your career? In Response 2 Fast Company http://friendfeed.com/e...

July 3, 2008 from Twitter - Comment - Like - Share

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Great question. I am so glad we are over the 2005 meme of "how to monetise blogs". I have travelled extensivley, and met many personal and professional contacts that have developed into career benefits and money. It is now essential and part of who I am. - Bankwatch from twhirl

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I'm an academic; I use my blog to keep track of interesting research opportunities, as well as to communicate with other academics in my field. - John

Technically, blogging was never a part of the job description at Microsoft. But now I blog a weekly newsletter and it is taking up about 30% of my job energy, maybe more. But that wasn't the beginning. I've blogged five novels in the past four and a half years and maintain a couple of other writiung related blogs. - Nathan Everett

I'm self employed, so my blog (http://peat.org/) represents me and my interests, and by extension my business. So, I blog for fun and profit, even if the blog itself doesn't generate revenue. - Peat Bakke from Alert Thingy

As the CEO of an agency, I don't get paid, nor do I have any ads on the blog. It's more of a 'release' for me, and of course, allows me to express opinions that 'aren't necessarily those of the agency' :) - Ian Schafer from twhirl

I've been blogging for three years on the topic of my business as an independent consultant for web 3.0 and the impact it will have on the online travel industry - Joe Buhler

I have a background in e-learning but work in strategic initiatives for e-recruitment. Blogging on e-learning keeps me sharp. - Dan Stuart

Josh Bancroft

Ii still love Twitter. My network here is huge. But it breaks my heart that it's gotten so unusable. And FriendFeed really IS a superset.

July 2, 2008 from Twitter - Comment - Like - Share

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I agree. I'm a bit begrudgingly moving more of my activity to FriendFeed and trying to learn how to use it more effectively. Still hoping Twitter recovers. But my confidence continues to dwindle. - Rick Turoczy

my sentiments exactly. - Alan Le

Agreed. My strategy for converting people is to comment on their Tweets via FF. That's what moved me over. More discussion. :D - Peat Bakke from Alert Thingy

Josh Bancroft

To my Twitter followers: You really should check out FriendFeed, to hedge your bets against the times Twitter is down.

July 2, 2008 from Twitter - Comment - Like - Share

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Cheers to that. I think I'm a convert, as of today. ;-) - Peat Bakke from Alert Thingy

Todd

@peat See @peat. See @peat go. Go @peat, go!

July 2, 2008 from Twitter - Comment - Like - Share

That reminds me. I want to get a copy of Go, Dog, Go for Mr. E. Thanks. ;-) - Peat Bakke from Alert Thingy

Todd

5 mins of fiddling with Alert Thingy and I'm not as impressed as I'd hoped to be ...

July 2, 2008 from Twitter - Comment - Like - Share

Yeah, I'm seeing some little glitches, but overall I like it better than refreshing a bunch of webpages every few minutes. Know of a better FF client? I'm a noob. - Peat Bakke from Alert Thingy

I'm continuing to use the twhirl FF client until Alert Thingy's design issues are worked out. - Matthew Gifford from twhirl

Marshall Kirkpatrick

huge news, imho "Google's Adoption Makes oAuth a Must Have for All Apps" http://is.gd/Hvi

June 27, 2008 from Twitter - Comment - Like - Share

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Fantastic! oAuth is a huge enabler for the "enterprise 2.0" community, where security and control are of much higher concern than for most of us recreational/social web nerds. Not sharing personal passwords is a good thing. Selective sharing of data and capabilities is a good thing. oAuth means that two parties who do not trust each other can still collaborate to solve bigger problems. That's a very good thing. Good for Google, PhotoBucket, and SmugMug. Hopefully Yahoo and Facebook climb on board soon. - Peat Bakke

Now we have to wait for sites that currently ask for your Google Account credentials to update to use oAuth... - Voyagerfan5761

Peat Bakke

Comment on: Mashups: Google's Adoption Makes oAuth a Must Have for All Apps - http://www.readwriteweb.com/archive...

June 27, 2008 - Comment - Like - Share

Fantastic! oAuth is a huge enabler for the "enterprise 2.0" community, where security and control are of much higher concern than for most of us recreational/social web nerds. Not sharing personal passwords is a good thing. Selective sharing of data and capabilities is a good thing. oAuth means that two parties who do not trust each other can still collaborate to solve bigger problems. That's a very good thing. Good for Google, PhotoBucket, and SmugMug. Hopefully Yahoo and Facebook climb on board soon. - Peat Bakke

Peat Bakke

Comment on: ICANN Proposes Sweeping Changes to TLDs - http://www.readwriteweb.com/archive...

June 27, 2008 - Comment - Like - Share

Thank goodness they're opening the TLD process. TLDs are meaningless to 99.9999% (if not more) of the general Internet using population. Explaining what com/net/org/edu means to someone is inevitably followed by that person pointing out inconsistencies in the sites they visit. People who are putting together a website for the first time often worry about getting in trouble for using the "wrong" TLD. On the other end of the spectrum, among the technically elite, existing TLDs are being creatively hacked into business names because the .com nomenclature is so crowded. Both are very strong social indications that the TLD system is fundamentally broken, now that the Internet has become a corner stone of modern life. Plus, it's not like the com/etc TLDs are going away. They're a de facto standard. It might take decades until people stop using .com reflexively. This decision doesn't change how anyone currently uses the Internet. My only beef is that it is so expensive to register. I would like to see t - Peat Bakke

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April 30, 2008 from delicious - Comment - Like - Share

Great introduction to Objective-C from CocoaDevCentral.com - Peat Bakke

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Learn Objective-C - http://cocoadevcentral.com/d...

April 30, 2008 from delicious - Comment - Like - Share

Great introduction to Objective-C from CocoaDevCentral.com - Peat Bakke

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May 29, 2007 from delicious - Comment - Like - Share

Thank you, Japan. - Peat Bakke

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