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Pointers

Rajesh Jain points to the first of a series of articles on Om Malik’s blog about “Lone Coders” – independent developers (of code or content) making a living in the gaps between corporate product offerings. The first part, “Blogging for Dollars”, is about the developer’s of Movable Type, Ben and Mena Trott. Facinating. Subscribed. #

Kevin Kelly has a smart website and, although its not a blog, it has a few feeds. Thats Kevin Kelly that founded Wired, the Long Now Foundation, the Whole Earth Catalogue, and the Global Business Network. Very smart guy. He also wrote one of my all-time favorite non-fiction books. #

Amazing notebooks. The paper kind. Gotta get me some of these. (Via Kevin Kelly). #

Now playing: Sacral Nirvana, Buddah Bar vol 3.

Pointers

Fast Company: The Wal-Mart You Don’t Know. A dismal tale of cheap pickles and a company that would eat the world if it could. #

WorldChanging has a post with some great links to high-quality climate change and international development information. #

Another good one from Rory. #

Scotsman: “One third of US visitors to Scotland believe the haggis is a real animal and almost a quarter would like to hunt the beast, according to a survey by a haggis maker and a US tourism association website.”

Pointers: SCO, Zen-TV, Green Power

ZDNet: Scoring SCO’s legal games. “When this whole sorry affair is over and BB King can get on with writing the Ballard of Black Dog McBride, Groklaw will stand as a monument to how a community under threat can gather its resources and calmly set about restoring sanity in a hurricane of bluster.” #

I know someone who could try this: Zen TV Experiment. #

Guardian: Mini-turbine brings ‘green power for all

Whidbey and WinFS

VisualStudio Magazine has a good article on Whidbey. Some exciting hints about Yukon integration and lifecycle management tools, but the gist seems to be that this is a release targeted at enterprise developers. #

Ray Ozzie points out the really exciting thing about WinFS is not the search, its the common schemas that apps can use to store their data. I hope he’s right that these standard, extensible schemas will enable interoperability at the data level. Currently, we as an industry don’t have much experience with reusing schemas across multiple organizations.

WinFS interview

Walter Smith points to a fascinating interview with Ray Ozzie:

“Now what if, as has happened in applications, the core abstraction of what is in a contemporary OS moves up by many notches? What if APIs become frameworks? What if a file system becomes more like a database? If higher level service-oriented architectures are in the underlying infrastructure as opposed to just generic standard C library runtime calls?

As a client side developer, I really want to take advantage of that stuff. It lets me be a whole lot more productive. But the more I do that the more I rely on higher-level infrastructure being around. So what I would ask you is the following: Are the Linux community and the Mac community prepared to step up their client-side investments to build higher-level frameworks to make it easier for me to code like Microsoft is doing?”

WinFS interview

Walter Smith points to a fascinating interview with Ray Ozzie:

“Now what if, as has happened in applications, the core abstraction of what is in a contemporary OS moves up by many notches? What if APIs become frameworks? What if a file system becomes more like a database? If higher level service-oriented architectures are in the underlying infrastructure as opposed to just generic standard C library runtime calls?

As a client side developer, I really want to take advantage of that stuff. It lets me be a whole lot more productive. But the more I do that the more I rely on higher-level infrastructure being around. So what I would ask you is the following: Are the Linux community and the Mac community prepared to step up their client-side investments to build higher-level frameworks to make it easier for me to code like Microsoft is doing?”

Pointers

Wired: “…one of the largest “collections of collections” on the Internet, ibiblio.org is a conservancy of freely available information, including software, music, literature, art, history, science, politics, and cultural studies” #

BBC: There’s now one Harry Potter book for every twenty-four people on the planet.