Archive for June, 2002

Community Building

Thursday, June 20th, 2002

Today I attended a presentation by Doug Seven and Sergey Baranovsky. Sergey is creator of devcity.net, and Doug is one of the creators of dotnetjunkies. They were giving a presentation about the challenges of running a community portal site, their respective communities’ dynamics, and thoughts about community in general. It seems like the community around […]

No Love for GPL

Tuesday, June 18th, 2002

Dennis Peterson responded to my earlier polemic about “Why I Don’t Love GPL“. I think much of the disagreement comes from my having skimmed over “value transfer” without explaining what I meant. Consider the comment:
Your argument that the “shadow economy” contributes to undemocratic political influence is valid for non-reproducible goods, but hardly applies in this […]

Review Time

Monday, June 17th, 2002

It’s review time at Microsoft again. Is it just a coincidence that I used the thesaurus 5 times today? For more information about Microsoft’s review process, check out Joel Spolsky’s comments on incentive, or my rant on HTP.

Wi-Fi

Sunday, June 16th, 2002

Doc Searls is having quite an adventure in London. I was unimpressed when people started blogging from conferences, but this is cool. Doc just wanders the streets until he finds a wireless hotspot, then sits on the sidewalk and does some work. It’s a great way to meet people, although I wouldn’t recommend it in […]

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Sunday, June 16th, 2002

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