Important, excellent long read from @matthewstoller on @aaronsw ‘s broader approach to politics. Read the whole thing. nakedcapitalism.com/2013/01/aaron-…
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Great article by @pchestek on “belt and suspenders” assignment of IP: http://www.propertyintangible.com/2013/01/its-not-really-work-made-for-hire.html
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I put together the gnome is people headshots, finally. I had a lot of fun doing them, though admittedly they are a touch inconsistent. Cut me some slack- I’ve never really tried to take good portraits before, so you can see the progression over time as I get better with encouraging people to laugh, and…
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The Berkman Center is a fun place to work, with smart people and great stuff going on. As a bonus, if you have any interest in thinking big thoughts, the hallway conversations are the best you’ll ever have in any tech job, most likely. And they are hiring: they need a Sr. Engineer for a…
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Are there any examples where someone created a broadly deployed standard and did not in time become either MS (high, expensive barriers to entry to use/support the standard, hence hated but wealthy) or Netscape (low barriers to entry, hence loved but dead?) I really can’t think of any, but I’d love to know of any…
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I do believe that I’ll be wearing this to my first day of intellectual property law, sometime in 2007. I imagine it’ll function like an IP Rorschach test…
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I’ve posted the mosaics from my ‘gnome is people’ slide deck. I’ll post the mugshots and ideally instructions on use of the totally awesome metapixel tomorrow.
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Totally awesome to see that a couple high profile tech doers and thinkers, Mark Pilgrim and Tim Bray, are switching back to Linux from OSX. In his switching article, Mark makes the point that XCF (gimp’s format) is not particularly open, and is apparently undocumented. Norman Walsh expounds. I think this is a good example…
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By moving much of our flame-inducing conversation to planet, an inherently controlled environment, we’ve mostly killed the most serious GNOME trolls. Hence, we don’t get nearly as many quality moments like this anymore. That post was apparently the web’s first instance of the key phrase, but it was only one of many responses to the…
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If you’re a web person, or a writer, and in the Boston area over the summer (so yeah, presumably a student) you might want to take a perk at the three summer jobs we have available. Cool beans.