OK, the links are for me, too, not just you.
- Someone else who wonders why ‘social’ software sites are businesses. I’m using LinkedIn, sort of. It works, I guess, but it’s a feature set, not a business. Are Friendster and Tribe.net and Ryze really any different than the defunct SixDegrees.com? I’m not covering new ground here, but I’m still stunned.
- There are no exceptions to Postel’s Law. – Mark Pilgrim emits another essay. Where does he find the time for this kind of thoroughness in both his coding and his essays when it’s not his day job? Wait until his first child arrives! 😉
- Chris Lydon interviewing Tim Berners-Lee, the soon-to-be-knighted creator of the web. Two lengthy audio files I haven’t yet listened to, but I will.
- Columbia University syllabus for Principles of Software Project Management, Q7503 in your catalog. Looks like a useful collection of links and other documents. Doubt I’d dive in fully here, but might as well record its presence.
- Doc Searls contributed an essay on Rebuilding the software industry, one word at a time to Kuroshin nearly two years ago. I’ll read it some time in the future. It’s fairly long, with plenty of comments.
- Running Movable Type on Panther. Of course, I use Radio Userland right now, and my server is not a Mac, but you never know.
- John Perry Barlow discovers ‘CasualSpace’ courtesy of iChat AV and the iSight.
I had the same shiver of the New that I got years ago the first time I ever used telnet and realized that I could get a hard disks to spin in any number of computers thousands of miles away just by entering a few keystrokes.
- Academic piece at FirstMonday on the economy of links. “In this paper we have suggested a framework for a standardised exchange rate between links and conventional currencies.” Talk about taking PageRank to the next level!
- Peter Merholz on the design of National Park printed guides. Just a reminder that design matters everywhere.
- SnipSnap, weblog and wiki software. I’m paying attention to this space because I’m considering using a wiki at work, for projects and/or documentation.
- Patent for a catapult toy. Better than a software patent, probably.
- 17 page PDF of what it’s like to interview with the NSA. I don’t know that I’d make such a document public, even under a pseudonym. But I’ll read it all the same.
- Interview with Matt Haughey of MetaFilter.
Phew. That whittles down the ‘to-be-blogged’ list of bookmarks a bit.