Monday, May 7, 2001

OSes R Conversations

To wrap a piece I'm writing (for a bigtime magazine), I'm looking for sites on the Web that provide either a way for contributors to influence operating systems, or to actually contribute code (which can be done in the case of Apple's OS X, at least at the BSD-derived Darwin layer). Email me here.

Cogent R Us

Tim likes the Fear & Fudding piece I floated the other day. Also what Craig says about Hailstorm.

How do you say Jabber in French?

France Telecom is going to own about a quarter of Jabber.com.

Hey, cliques are conversations too

In his editorial in this weeks Standard, Richard Turner says, The real "market" isn't in the trading pits, it's in the culture — in SoHo and SoMa, in Kmart and on MTV. It isn't buying and selling, it's a teeming, fickle cauldron of needs and desires. It keeps score and awards points for being cool. It's like junior high school.

Time to invest in backup software stock

Joyce just called from one of the Santa Barbara county offices, where she heard there will be a rolling blackout soon. So I just saved everything I could and moved it over here to the laptop.