Monthly Archives: July 2009

Parsing the “open” in Adobe’s Open Source Media Framework announcement

Jul 21st – 11am

It’s not necessarily surprising that during the week of O’Reilly’s Open Source Convention (aka OSCON), companies release open source code — just as they often release flashy consumer products during tradeshows to garner the most buzz from contingent news cycles. So it goes with Adobe’s announcement today that they’re releasing two new open source projects, [...]

By Chris Messina | Posted in Open source, Philosophy, Technology, Web building | Comments (7)

I, for one, welcome our half-human, half-robot overlords in the cloud

Jul 13th – 11pm

I suppose every now and then you run up against some kind of technological experience and think, “Wow, that’s amazing.” This doesn’t happen to me all that often. I’m so enmeshed in technology and the web that by the time some technology is deployed deep enough in the wild that I randomly encounter it, it’s [...]

By Chris Messina | Posted in Life online, Raw Materials, Social justice, Society & economy, Technology, Untitled, unfinished, incomplete | Comments (9)