http://www.cocomment.com/comments/webmaven Copyright 2007 coComment.com 2009-11-25T09:26:30.442+01:00 http://www.cocomment.com/images/logo4rss.gif http://www.cocomment.com/sidebar?object=people&context=explore&mode=detail&id=webmaven&conv=2408458&comment_id=57784613 Michael R. Bernstein Hi Shane, this is looking very exciting! How useful do you think your new publisher will be as an independent package? Alternatively, how many other packages will it pull in as dependencies? 2009-02-13T01:43:12.989+01:00 2009-02-13T01:43:12.989+01:00 http://www.cocomment.com/sidebar?object=people&context=explore&mode=detail&id=webmaven&conv=2351415&comment_id=53627472 Michael R. Bernstein Can you add another column to your table that lists languages for which there are client libraries? 2009-01-25T20:35:36.496+01:00 2009-01-25T20:35:36.496+01:00 http://www.cocomment.com/sidebar?object=people&context=explore&mode=detail&id=webmaven&conv=2294415&comment_id=49694167 Michael R. Bernstein What, no Transmission? http://www.transmissionbt.com/ 2009-01-16T19:54:05.417+01:00 2009-01-16T19:54:05.417+01:00 http://www.cocomment.com/sidebar?object=people&context=explore&mode=detail&id=webmaven&conv=1855782&comment_id=32068371 Michael R. Bernstein My list (excluding markups like HTML and CSS): English Hebrew BASIC A smattering of German ColdFusion SQL Python 2008-10-15T01:08:41.598+02:00 2008-10-15T01:08:41.598+02:00 http://www.cocomment.com/sidebar?object=people&context=explore&mode=detail&id=webmaven&conv=1850013&comment_id=31955386 Michael R. Bernstein Hell, rather than reform, I'd settle for a decent level of corporate governance experimentation. Almost all corporations are currently structured as hierarchies with extremely limited vertical mobility and an aristocratic upper layer that is incestuously shared between corporations. There is some minor experimentation with the number, size, and structure of the intervening management layers, but not much. The only major type of non-traditional corporate structure seems to be the co-op, which have their own problems. Where are the constitutional democracies? 2008-10-13T04:18:34.397+02:00 2008-10-13T04:18:34.397+02:00 http://www.cocomment.com/sidebar?object=people&context=explore&mode=detail&id=webmaven&conv=1787704&comment_id=31332882 Michael R. Bernstein Sorry I didn't see this request for info earlier. One aspect of his plan that I haven't seen questioned is the implication that all those gas-fired power plants should be shut down and written off. That's not exactly a small cost, and I think the heaviest brunt would be borne by public utility companies. Meanwhile, the additional investment in NG pipelines and the conversion of filling stations would most likely prove to be windfall profits for Pickens and his buddies. 2008-09-21T22:09:14.459+02:00 2008-09-21T22:09:14.459+02:00 http://www.cocomment.com/sidebar?object=people&context=explore&mode=detail&id=webmaven&conv=1787319&comment_id=31330784 Michael R. Bernstein Richard, you might be interested in Cory Doctorow's short story 'The Things that Make Me Weak and Strange Get Engineered Away': http://www.tor.com/index.php?option=com_content&view=story&id=2993 2008-09-21T19:34:09.162+02:00 2008-09-21T19:34:09.162+02:00 http://www.cocomment.com/sidebar?object=people&context=explore&mode=detail&id=webmaven&conv=1611705&comment_id=30494322 Michael R. Bernstein It's worth noting that along with the relatively high-profile Ignite events, there is a groundswell of lower profile events as well, in a lot of places you wouldn't expect them to pop up. This reflects the continuing radical lowering of the cost of organization itself, such that many of these events are volunteer-run and free. Take a look at the places hosting BarCamps: http://www.barcamp.org/ And, on a more entrepreneurial note, Startup Weekends: http://startupweekend.com/ 2008-08-20T23:30:14.730+02:00 2008-08-20T23:30:14.730+02:00 http://www.cocomment.com/sidebar?object=people&context=explore&mode=detail&id=webmaven&conv=1504253&comment_id=28769722 Michael R. Bernstein Mark, are you comparing Trader Joe's to a 'normal' supermarket, to Wal-Mart, or to other organic markets like Whole Foods/Wild Oats? 2008-07-18T03:39:05.588+02:00 2008-07-18T03:39:05.588+02:00 http://www.cocomment.com/sidebar?object=people&context=explore&mode=detail&id=webmaven&conv=1467422&comment_id=28170854 Michael R. Bernstein About the only case I know of where BoingBoing deleted *their own posts* (as opposed to comments) wholesale to consign something to the memoryhole is this: http://www.boingboing.net/2007/10/14/an-apology-to-ursula.html And of course, this was reasonably transparent and public. So, even now, I would not *yet* assume that this was done deliberately by the BB crew themselves. This may be a case where some newbie at Federated Media deleted a bunch of posts at the behest of an advertiser, and there is an epic wrassle going on in the back rooms about it, in which the BB crew will win the day and the forces of light prevail and the forces of darkness will be crushed (though possibly not outed). It's also possible that this was done deliberately, but as a result of some sort of legal assault + a gag order. Meanwhile, it's the weekend. Let's see how long the silence on the subject continues. My bet is Monday. 2008-06-29T03:16:06.794+02:00 2008-06-29T03:16:06.794+02:00 http://www.cocomment.com/sidebar?object=people&context=explore&mode=detail&id=webmaven&conv=1455699&comment_id=27918563 Michael R. Bernstein We're just not willing to pay the premiums to having our cells be our main phone number. Basically our cells are for occasional/emergency use (we have a very inexpensive plan from Virgin Mobile), and our main 'landline' is a VOIP account from Vonage. 2008-06-23T05:38:46.969+02:00 2008-06-23T05:38:46.969+02:00 http://www.cocomment.com/sidebar?object=people&context=explore&mode=detail&id=webmaven&conv=1455699&comment_id=27918175 Michael R. Bernstein We're just not willing to pay the premium for using a cellphone as our main line. Our cell's are basically for occasional/emergency use, and our 'landline' is a VOIP account from Vonage. 2008-06-23T05:35:14.039+02:00 2008-06-23T05:35:14.039+02:00 http://www.cocomment.com/sidebar?object=people&context=explore&mode=detail&id=webmaven&conv=1453831&comment_id=27588565 Michael R. Bernstein "You can't go home again" only means that the place isn't 'home' anymore, not that you actually can't go back. Another way of saying that you can't step twice into the same river. In other words, the WaSP is obviously a different organization, with a different (though I think overlapping) set of participants, operating in a different environment, than the one Molly belonged to previously. So, since there is no 'going back', the only real question is, should Molly join the WaSP of today? For my own selfish reasons I would say 'yes': The challenges from proprietary technologies trying to displace the web (or at least head it off in new areas) are mounting as the pace of change is increasing to a fever pitch again. 2008-06-21T20:47:45.565+02:00 2008-06-21T20:47:45.565+02:00 http://www.cocomment.com/sidebar?object=people&context=explore&mode=detail&id=webmaven&conv=1423493&comment_id=27130718 Michael R. Bernstein that result for "Zope 3 Interfaces" is pretty ugly all right. Something better comes up when you search for "Zope 3 Component" though: http://wiki.zope.org/zope3/ComponentArchitecture 2008-06-07T10:25:21.856+02:00 2008-06-07T10:25:21.856+02:00 http://www.cocomment.com/sidebar?object=people&context=explore&mode=detail&id=webmaven&conv=1416510&comment_id=27028755 Michael R. Bernstein Paul, mine too. That one feature would make creating modular templates *so* much easier, not to mention giving a huge boost to the reusability of the markup and CSS. 2008-06-02T22:45:30.916+02:00 2008-06-02T22:45:30.916+02:00 http://www.cocomment.com/sidebar?object=people&context=explore&mode=detail&id=webmaven&conv=1376912&comment_id=26331707 Michael R. Bernstein Meh. Orangs are pretty benign, compared to, say, chimps (regular chimps, not bonobos). And baboons, holy crap we'd be in a word of hurt if they figured out the spear (because, soon after that, they'd be breaking into armories all over Africa and stealing AK-47s)! Hmm. 2008-05-03T06:01:07.522+02:00 2008-05-03T06:01:07.522+02:00 http://www.cocomment.com/sidebar?object=people&context=explore&mode=detail&id=webmaven&conv=1353363&comment_id=25464095 Michael R. Bernstein "But as in all things, it’s the coasts that matter when it comes to the psychogeography of indie rock." I'm not sure, but it looks like Nashville is becoming the center-of-the-universe for mainstream rock (one data point: Jack White just left Detroit for Nashville, because "that's where all the folks who know how to write hits live"). Dunno what this portends for indie rock over the long term, but I have a feeling that at the very least, it won't remain a 'coastal' phenomenon.... "This has, in some sense, limited the ability of disaffected teenagers in culturally arid places to form taste tribes around hoarded bits of shared culture." Hmm. You should talk to dana boyd about this stuff... 2008-04-19T05:15:04.438+02:00 2008-04-19T05:15:04.438+02:00 http://www.cocomment.com/sidebar?object=people&context=explore&mode=detail&id=webmaven&conv=1337391&comment_id=25250619 Michael R. Bernstein Didn't they rename the restaurant in there? 2008-04-08T04:04:15.995+02:00 2008-04-08T04:04:15.995+02:00 http://www.cocomment.com/sidebar?object=people&context=explore&mode=detail&id=webmaven&conv=1321604&comment_id=25074446 webmaven Shirley MacLaine made a pretty interesting movie about Mary Kay a few years back: http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0328877/ 2008-03-28T00:50:34.088+01:00 2008-03-28T00:50:34.088+01:00