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Communities exist independent of any actual connections between people. There’s a community of people who have all bungee-jumped off the same bridge as you, even if you’ve never met them.
But, throw a Bridge Day, and the community becomes visible.
With online communities, this is quite evident. Some communities are purely based around the tools [...]

It seems the debate about links between brain cancer and cellphones goes back and forth. It seems like last year, they were declared safe. Now that is once again being called into question.
But are folks missing half of the equation? Sure, the phone is next to our head, but it’s also being [...]

Blogs and such are supposed to be about both aggregation and syndication. With aggregators such as Bloglines or NetNewsWire, I think we’ve thus far got a pretty good handle on aggregation. Or at least personal aggregation. In true populist web2.0 form, the user is supposed to cut out the middleman, and just [...]

New feature?
Update: No, not a new feature.  A quick googling resulted in at least a sighting back in April.  This seems to be a feature specific to medical terms.

Recently I’ve been doing a fair amount of work in Ruby. And yes, I’ve felt super-productive. Particularly compared to Java.
The downside of working in Java is the 100% Pure Java(tm) mentality. In the search for a clean and cohesive system, we take the attitude that if it’s not pure Java, it’s crap. [...]

Wow.
I’m finally home after a trip to San Francisco to meet my co-workers. It truly was surreal, in that I’ve been working for The Job for about a year, and had never met a co-worker, aside from Pete. When I joined, the team was 3 other people, and we were all in different [...]

My Day-Job has been secreted behind a wall of secret secrecy. It still is. But we have a new website tonight. There’s a tad more information than previously disclosed, but only a little. You can learn a little bit about our investors and our management team. Meanwhile, we’re still [...]

Just a helpful note if you have both TiVo and children: set a parental control code or your children will.
Tonight, the wife and I sat down to enjoy some wholesome television, including Moral Orel and Aqua Teen Hunger Force. We quickly learned that our child, currently fast asleep, had set a parental control code [...]

Well, I’ve managed to procure both travel and lodging for OSCon in Portland this week. I still don’t actually have a conference pass, but what is life without challenges? If you’re an exhibitor or just a friendly soul who has a spare pass or would like to sponsor me, email bob@ this domain.
I’m [...]

I’m quite pleased to announce that the efforts of Dan Diephouse to get the Codehaus turned into a bonafide non-profit organisation has produced results. Now we are just awaiting certification from the IRS for our tax-exempt status. Paul Brown is our Director of Altruism, and will be coordinating our fund-raising activities. As [...]