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 [...]
(Filed under: sharks jumped.) Brynn got this in the mail last week and shared it with me. Let’s just say that it struck a nerve. I’ve worried for some time that “open” as a market differentiator is becoming diluted and washed out, just as “organic” and “green” before. Like “2.0″, companies are coming to see [...]
In September of 2006, I wrote a piece called The Future of White Boy Clubs taking to task Ryan Carson for putting together a speaker lineup for his Future of Web Apps conference made up entirely of white men (for the record, Tantek resents being lumped in as “white”; he’s says he’s Turkish). As a [...]