Shades of the nuzee flap of a month or so ago, andersja objects to finding his content repurposed at blogmints. (Blogmints shows the most commented-upon posts from blogs that recently pinged weblogs.com.)
Quoth andersja:
I will stand by what I said then: feel free to syndicate my RSS feed. I insert the postings' headers, excerpts and permanent links only. Blogmints, on the other hand, seems to nab text right off my webpage and slap it up on their frontpage.[via andersja's trackback ping at blogpopuli]
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Dylan Tweney hails The Death of the $1 Million Software Package in his latest Business 2.0 column:
Back in the late 1990s, a software salesman could look you in the eye and say with a straight face that his company's enterprise system would cost you $1 million. Mercifully, those days are over.
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"Companies are looking around and saying, 'OK, I bought all this stuff, how do I make it work together?'" says Yankee's Dominy. If companies are still buying from ERP and SCM vendors, they're more likely to purchase smaller applications that have a clear, quick return on investment, such as software for managing a fleet of delivery vehicles, rather than full-blown, end-to-end systems. "Money is going into IT administration and management (including data center integration) and application integration," agrees George Zachary, a general partner at venture capital firm Mohr Davidow. "Money is going very slowly into business-process-oriented IT (such as CRM)."Tweney has already responded to an accusation of heartlessness (and, worse, callow youth!) in the comments area of his blog.
categories: knowhow
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categories: x-pollen
11:17:54 AM say what []
Now once again I need a PC for testing stuff, so I'm stringing a very long ethernet cable down through the laundry chute to the basement, where I have a second hub (amidst the detritus from my old office in downtown Oakland) I can plug into it and put the PC and Mac down there online (I use a Linksys router to share the DSL connection and an Airport base station to put B and my laptops online).
If it all works and the old PC can handle the testing load, I'm cool. If not, I may be looking to borrow someone's spare laptop for a few months.
categories: x-pollen
11:17:53 AM say what []
Minnesota columnist James Lileks is a charming writer, if a little flashy (like the guitar soloist who uses volume and speed to get the inevitable cheer from the audience), who understands the web medium mighty well.
As I study warblog jargon, I'm fairly confident that his interleaved, point-for-point refutation of a speech by Senator Paul Wellstone constitutes a fisking.
It's very Usenet and email, this style of interjected after-the-fact argumentation, very Internet I guess. As someone who's practiced it often myself, I have to admit that it sometimes smacks a bit of what I wish I had saidism.
There's also the dogpiling. Looking up Fisk and fisking (and Monbiot, etc.) I came across a response to a New Statesman article (right-wing and self-identified Libertarian warbloggers have taken to debating the British left given the lack of engagement or vigor in America's atrophied, guilt- and shame-ridden left).
I don't know where Byron fits in the warblogger food-chain, but you might safely call him a Reynoldsist ("instaheads"?). The me too flavor of many of his comments betray a subtext, the lazy shorthand of groupthink (subquotes are from Bryron's fisking of the New Statesmen article):
Fisking? I'll Show You a Fisking -The "formerly obscure Tennessee law professor called Glenn Reynolds" clued us into this Gaurdian piece on blogs. Hint to any mainstream media folks doing a piece on blogs: (1) bloggers love to read articles on blogs (2) bloggers love to pick apart bad articles (3) thus, a bad article about blogs is about to become road kill.Allow me to unfisk the rest of his blog entry (selectively quoting part of his post without interspersing any comments at all):Why have Americans started to vilify the Guardian?Because it the home of the British EuroweenieWhy does the actor John Malkovich want to kill the Independent foreign correspondent Robert Fisk?Does the word idiotarian mean anything to you?
"[The left ceded this potentially influential medium without a fight] because they are underarmed. Blogs pay attention to facts and attention to detail. Liberalism tends to be more emotionally based.
No, fisking is systematically trashing a badly-written or illogical piece regardless of ideology. We'll fisk righties too if they have it coming. Pat Buchanan and other paleocons get fisked as well.
They also point out some of [Krugman's] consistencies, one of which is an irrational hatred of Republicans.
"[U]nchecked by sensible debate" translates to "uncensored by liberal filters." We only fisk the stoopid ones.
Maybe we're discovering the European's autoproctology?
But political blogging is in its infancy here. It remains up for grabs. Got a computer? Got a view? Get blogging. There is a war to be won."What did you do during Gulf War II grand dad?"
"I did my part."
categories: memewatch
10:50:27 AM say what []
Keeping in touch with the old gang. If there's one thing the Internet's good for, it's finding your old friend and compadres.
categories: x-pollen
10:17:42 AM say what []
Many people think of the Boing Boing blog as Cory Doctorow's personal weblog, and even link to or blogroll it that way, but of course it is a team blog, with Apple switcher Mark Frauenfelder and David Pescovitz also on the masthead.
Cory posted on Saturday that Xeni Jardin did "such a fan-freakin-tastic job running the guestblog for the past couple weeks" that she has been invited to join the main team.
Who knew that the guestblog would function as a try-out? (A new guestblogger will start shortly.)
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