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 […]
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 […]
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.
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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