Blogs

Mark Cuban on corporate stock buybacks. One of those things most people never really think through, but should.

Good post by Jonathan Schwartz on the dynamics of the software industry, and users ability to switch among vendors. I’m sure he takes heat from the Linux community on his comments, but the emergence of Red Hat as a company charging high prices for server software are an important indicator that the utopian vision isn’t yet a reality…

This is a truly amazing post by Mark Cuban, rich man and owner of the Dallas Mavericks. Ever been confused by a trade (or non-trade) in the NBA? This will make you at least step back and say “Well, maybe I have no clue how this all works”.

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The Internet Bookmobile came to Walden Pond and learned first hand about the conflicting goals for that property. What would Thoreau think? __ _Yesterday (July 8, 2004) I took the Internet Bookmobile to Walden Pond in Concord, Mass. It was the 150th anniversary of H. D. Thoreau’s boo k “Walden.” The Thoreau Society had a dawn to dusk reading. _ _After an hour of having readers print and take away free copies of “Walden,”

John Robb: “The fact that an extremely expensive security effort has shut down a major American city for a week, is a result al Qaeda would consider a victory.” [via Scripting News]

Ben Hammersley outlines how to get your Fedex package status as an RSS feed. As I’ve written before, I believe that automatically generated blogs are as much of the future of blogging as human-generated ones.

David Sifry tracks the growth of weblogs. Amazing growth curves…

Pitchfork Media - with lots of downloads and reviews

I just wrote my first Python program. It occurs to me, given the generally grey colour of my beard, that this may be the last time I learn a new programming language. Which, frankly, would be OK, it’s real work. This thing scans all the feeds coming out of Planet Sun using Mark Pilgrim’s Universal Feed Parser, detects any that have changed in the last day, and pings weblogs.com, technorati.com, and blo.