Day: October 18, 2005
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Book: The Cathedral & The Bazaar
I appreciated reading the hardcover copy of The Cathedral & The Bazaar: Musings on Linux and Open Source by an Accidental Revoluionary, even as I recognized some of the ironies of the act. First, the hardcover book, published in 1999, is out of print. Second, Eric Raymond published every essay in the book for free…
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Blogarithm: RSS for the e-mail crowd?
I’m not sure I get it. Via The RSS Weblog, I read about Blogarithm, which lets you know via e-mail that a blog you follow has updated. Huh? I do know RSS is not (yet!) for everyone, but I hadn’t thought there still was even a sliver of market opportunity for doing update notification via…
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Spend time chasing a thread whose unraveling may tie up a loose end
Paul Ford, in Followup/Distraction, says there “at least” two kinds of distractions, wide and narrow. My abstracted definitions follow (though you’ll want to read the short essay): Wide = time wasted you will never get back. Narrow = time wisely spent chasing a thread whose unraveling may tie up a loose end. Can you tell…