April 2008
3 posts
Google App Engine for developers →
Java is losing the battle for the modern Web. Can... →
February 2008
4 posts
JD Supra →
Sharing of legal documents (filings, articles, forms, etc). Looks interesting - interesting set of contributors as well (thanks to Tim Stanley).
Law Commons - Trac →
Free caselaw search engine. Yay! Something we were trying to do a Findlaw 10 years ago!
brad's life - A proposal: email to URL mapping →
This makes perfect sense to me - I could swear that we discussed something very much like this in the inames community and/or XRI TC at some point.
SeeqPod Music beta - Playable Search - Find.... →
Is Twitter Down? →
January 2008
11 posts
Sumsing Turbo 3000 Cellphone →
Latitude & Longitude - Look Up →
Closure and Scope →
Heading for a Delegate Donnybrook? - TIME →
Likelihood that Dem primaries will end up with a convention fight. Because of the 15% threshold issue, the one that kept me from getting to go to the Dem National Convention last time :-/
Dave Winer: Ways we can help (Obama) →
Living New Deal Project →
Documenting New Deal projects in California - many of which are part of my childhood in San Francisco.
The Elements of User Experience →
OLPC News Forum: OLPC News Forum →
Ford taps Tata as top bidder for Jaguar, Land... →
Iowa Democratic Party Caucus Results →
December 2007
2 posts
Tuttle SVC: xochat.org Up →
Commodore 64 still loved after all these years -... →
I’m one of those nostalgic men in their 30’s…
November 2007
13 posts
Walk Score - Helping homebuyers, renters, and real... →
Eugene Kim's Authentic Social Networking →
Marc Worrell/ OAuth and URL encoding →
A good summary of the issues with URI encoding and the various specs and implementations (leaves out Python, which actually makes dealing with this pretty easy). This is the sort of stuff that makes writing specs like XRI a pain!
Annotated Grateful Dead Lyrics →
Obama's technology platform →
Its really good. Take a look…
Draft Gore Halts Activities in California →
Gore isn’t running. Really glad that the Gore folks finally sent such a clear message. Should clear up the dem primary quite a bit - I say this helps Obama a ton.
Phil Windley's Startup Blogging →
Good advice. Have been through this myself. I like the one about “commitment”, though I’m not sure that sort of commitment is always visible..
“The hardest thing to overcome in life is being aware of your place in the world.”
– me (today)
Andy Updegrove: Giving the Lie to Patents and... →
Pretty much sums up my feelings on software patents these days. Andy Updegrove’s http://consorituminfo.org is a great site for those interested in the intersection of IP and technology standards on the Internet.
Why Google Launched Opensocial →
Dave Winer hits the nail on the head. Its rare to see the Google looking so scared…
OpenSocial: Where the hell is the Container API? →
Well said. The OpenSocial announcement has been rubbing me the wrong way for a while this expresses it well.
Google's Open Handset Alliance (Android) →
Python tuning for Tim Bray's Wide Finder Challenge →
I love this stuff. Proof that python can compete with the best of them and win. I stand by my python bigotry ;-)
October 2007
11 posts
A real Earthquake, 24 minutes later →
7.2 is a real earthquake - 24 minutes later in the Marianas islands - but my guess is that the lower concentration of twitterers will mean that we get less insta-coverage.
Google map of earthquake epicenter →
Moderate SF Earthquake →
Also, twitter is going NUTS on the track for ‘quake’ and ‘earthquake’
Consolidated San Diego Fire Twitter Feed →
Thanks to numist, this twitter count gets fed tweets from #sandiegofire hashtagged tweets and other related sources.
Julian Bond misreads #sandiegofire
< jbond> : Just realised what this is about. I read it as Sandie Go Fire. Hope you're all ok.
< jbond> : kthxbai!
#sandiegofire IRC channel →
Has a bot which imports all the twitters with the #sandiegofire tag.
SafeAndWell.org →
A site to find (or list) family, friends, etc displaced by disasters. Run by the Red Cross.
San Diego Fire Map →
Ugh. Looks like family is in the evacuation zone.. This must be unbelievably horrible for those in San Diego and the rest of SoCal.
Jottit →
A very very simple insta-wiki… Again, yay Aaron!
Web.py →
Simple web framework for Python. Yay Aaron!