Gallery Dog<img src="http://danielsjourney.com/blog/files/2005/04/Image(59).jpg" />30170324ImaginingDaniel2005-04-30T05:03:11stageJudah <3 MacLast night <a href="http://underde.com">under[de]</a> and its contingent went to the <a href="http://www.google.com/maps?li=lmd&hl=en&q=apple+store+loc:+Dallas,+TX&num=10&cid=32783333,-96800000,5885733855706711916&radius=0.000000&hl=en&ie=UTF-8&ll=32.822607,-96.787557&spn=0.20599365234375,0.4119873046875&t=k">Apple store</a> for the release of <a href="http://www.apple.com/macosx/">Tiger</a>. Judah fanclubbing commenced: <img src="http://danielsjourney.com/blog/files/2005/04/Image(65).jpg" /> <img src="http://danielsjourney.com/blog/files/2005/04/Image(66).jpg" /> <img src="http://danielsjourney.com/blog/files/2005/04/Image(67).jpg" />30165455ImaginingDaniel2005-04-30T04:54:15stageDavid Hopkins: 24 hour comic<a href="http://antiherocomics.com/2005/04/42805-scanned-for-you.html">Scanned for you</a>...<blockquote>Here's my 24 hour comic book--<a href="http://www.antiherocomics.com/girl_from_amsterdam.pdf">Girl From Amsterdam - pdf file</a></blockquote><img src="files/2005/04/hopkins_24hr_01.jpg" /> 28143347ElsewhereDaniel2005-04-28T02:33:28stageDaniel Miller Performance<a href="http://halsamples.com/blog/index.php?id=190">From Hal Samples</a>: <blockquote>Due date: May 1st! Place of delivery: Local Color Gallery (South Side on Lamar Rooftop) Time: 7-11pm (special 15 min multi-media installation at 9pm) Free Beer, Wine, and Hot Dogs outside my roof space where you can hear special musical guest: Jason Davis and the Horny Boys Jazz Band, Paul Semrad, <a href="http://danielmillerband.com">Daniel Miller</a>, maybe Montrose, and more surprises developing.... suggested $15 donation at the door * First 200 get a free halsamples.com t-shirt with donation (dont let the $15 keep you from coming...if you dont have it, no sweat...) * It's all about getting people together to celebrate urban art and music with a remarkable view of downtown Dallas as the back drop...</blockquote>28132542MusicDaniel2005-04-28T01:25:09stage...grr...To everyone at the <a href="http://martinsexton.com">Martin Sexton</a> show last night: WHY THE F**K DO YOU PAY $18 TO STAND AROUND AND <s>TALK</s> YELL AT EACH OTHER ABOUT YOUR INANE LIVES?! F**K ALL YA'LL. Two years ago at the 9:30 Club in DC there were 8-10 times the number of people there, all listening in proper awe.28131754MusicDaniel2005-04-28T01:08:50stageTonight: the amAzing Martin Sexton performing at the Gypsy Tea Room<img src="files/2005/04/DSCN0605.jpg" align="right"/><a href="http://198.65.141.137/">Martin Sexton / Sonya Kitchell in the Tea Room... Doors open at 8:00</a> Last time I saw <a href="http://martinsexton.com">Martin Sexton</a> was at the <a href="http://www.930.com">9:30 Club</a> in DC -- about ten times the size of the Tea Room and filled to capacity that night.27103417MusicDaniel2005-04-27T10:34:03stageLife Hacks: Tech Secrets of Overprolific Alpha Geeks<a href="http://www.43folders.com/2004/09/getting_started.html">43-Folders: Getting Started</a>: <blockquote><ul><li>nerds are often disorganized or have a twisted skein of attention-deficit issues</li> <li>nerds love assessing, classifying, and defining the objects in their world</li> <li>nerds crave actionable items and roll their eyes at "mission statements" and lofty management patois</li> <li>nerds like things that work with technology-agnostic and lofi tools</li> <li>nerds like frameworks but tend to ignore rules</li> <li>nerds are unusually open to change (if it can be demonstrated to work better than what they're currently using)</li> <li>nerds like fixing things on their own terms</li> <li>nerds have too many projects and lots and lots of stuff</li></ul></blockquote> "<a href="http://www.craphound.com/lifehacksetcon04.txt">All geeks have a todo.txt file</a>. They use texteditors (Word, BBEd, Emacs, Notepad) not Outlook or whathaveyou..." <blockquote>What we keep in our todo is the stuff we want to forget Geeks say they remember details well, but they forget their spouses' birthdays and the dry-cleaning. Because it's not interesting. It's the 10-second rule: if you can't file something in 10 seconds, you won't do it. Todo.txt involves cut-and-paste, the simplest interface we can imagine. ...Power-users don't trust complicated apps. Every time power-geekshas had a crash, s/he moves away from it. You can't trust software unless you've written it -- and then you're just more forgiiving. The private blog -- a secret blog, using a tool: Brad Fitzpatrick of LiveJournal: 8 entries every 10 min are private. Closed off from everyone. Announce stuff is moving into RSS -- email announcements to something that syndicates over RSS -- Geeks write scripts to take apart dull, repetitive tasks. They'll spend 10h writing a script that will save 11h -- because writing scripts is interesting and doing dull stuff isn't. Scripts are embarassingly coded, often forgotten." People do lots of webscraping. Scrape stuff and turn it into RSS -- make your own feeds. JWZ uses this to help him run his bar. Lots of people do this with banking services -- to keep an eye on their accounts. -- People make utilities to make their stuff public. Not just blogs -- but stuff like Eric Raymond's "shipper" -- package a code into an RPM, upload to SourceForge, announce, etc. Edd Dumbill: Ideas rot if you don't do something with them. Don't hoard them. I blog them or otherwise tell people. This is a way to look organized, "That guy has lots of ideas, what a genius." You only have to be right once -- people google for some idea and find your ramble about it and are impressed. Making stuff public is like having your parents come to stay -- you clean everything up. </blockquote> Those were some excerpts from <a href="http://www.craphound.com/">Doctorow</a>'s notes from <a href="http://conferences.oreillynet.com/cs/et2004/view/e_sess/4802">Life Hacks: Tech Secrets of Overprolific Alpha Geeks</a>: <blockquote>Technologists consume Big-Gulp-loads of information, and write, code, and edit reams of output. Author Charlie Stross notes that he reads and digests more in his morning bookmarks than most literate 18th-century readers would process in a year. </blockquote> I'm not sure, but it may have inspired the new Gawker Media blog <a href="http://www.lifehacker.com/">Lifehacker</a>, edited by <a href="http://www.scribbling.net/">Gina Trapani</a>. You could also always get me <a href="http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/0596007795/qid=1114616340/sr=2-1/ref=pd_bbs_b_2_1/104-2591155-8287164">Mind Hacks</a> or the book that started this thread <a href="http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/0142000280/ref=wl_it_dp/104-2591155-8287164?%5Fencoding=UTF8&coliid=I1ON9NDTZBY6YX&v=glance&colid=1IE1ZRAEO5E1F">Getting Things Done</a>. via <a href="http://www.caterina.net/">caterina.net</a>27102845ElsewhereDaniel2005-04-27T10:08:45stageMore on Design, but not part of that last design thread<a href="http://www.garrettdimon.com/archives/a-list-nothing-this-guy-is-z-list" title="First things first, I like Keith but his new design is just a little over the top for me. The IA and content is respectable, but after thinking about it, I just can?t get over the fact that he blatanly ripped off Subtraction? C?mon Keith, did you think nobody would notice?">1</a> <a href="http://www.7nights.com/asterisk/archives05/2005/04/the-pot-calling-the-kettle" title="'Next up, look at this use of whitespace, I mean COME ON'">2</a> <a href="http://www.7nights.com/asterisk/archives05/2005/04/the-difficulty-with-originality" title="The Difficulty with Originality">3</a> <a href="http://www.garrettdimon.com/archives/jokes-are-good-but-educational-jokes-are-even-better" title="Finding Creativity and Inspiration Isn't Easy">4</a>, all originally via <a href="http://www.subtraction.com/archives/2005/0422_imitation_f.php" title="Oh wait, it all turns out to be a joke. We?ll see who?s laughing after they get a call from my lawyer">subtraction</a>. <a href="http://www.garrettdimon.com">Garrett</a> is with Dallas' own <a href="http://www.brightcorner.com/">Bright Corner</a>, all/most of whom I somehow missed at SXSW. <a href="http://www.7nights.com/asterisk/">Keith</a> was on <a href="http://danielsjourney.com/blog/index.php?file=2005_03.xml&id=14190210">a panel I attended</a>. So perhaps feeling the pull of all this faddy big text/whitespace/spare-me-the-metadata stuff, something I'd thought about doing for a while now anyway, plus I was pretty frustrated with coding (it's totally a love/hate relationship, apparently I'm really into those), so I spent some relax-time spec'ing out a new design for djdc. I won't have time to mark it up anyway, so <a href="http://www.danielsjourney.com/blog/files/2005/04/djdc_spec_apr05.png">here it is for your judgement</a>. Oh, I also <a href="http://www.danielsjourney.com/blog/blog_map.php" title="shows all entries by date and some fun metrics">threw this together</a> out of curiosity and need for some funcoding (there are still some bugs I probly won't bother fixing anytime soon). I'm not labeling much, I'll let you figure out what the metrics are and how the UI works. It's trying to serve you 1M in markup, not to mention the processing required on the other end, so be patient and kind. If you lack bandwidth or patience you can also try looking at a year at a time: <a href='blog_map.php?year=2001'>2001</a> <a href='blog_map.php?year=2002'>2002</a> <a href='blog_map.php?year=2003'>2003</a> <a href='blog_map.php?year=2004'>2004</a> <a href='blog_map.php?year=2005'>2005</a>.25004023DesignDaniel2005-04-25T12:39:10stageNow More Complete CrapI'm in the middle of setting up a new box, caught in the hell of trying to install ColdFusion on Apache on Windows. I'm unsure how I want to proceed, too tired to code properly (my other work option) (unless I get a 3AM second wind, which the fact that my contacts are still in makes unlikely), so I'm going to write and go to bed and maybe some genius will strike me in the morning. I realized rereading <a href="http://danielsjourney.com/blog/index.php?file=2005_04.xml&id=22140705">yesterday's post</a> that I contradicted myself a lot. Not so much contradicted as gave away then took back; or took away then gave back. In actuality, I was just processing in real time, saying true things then realizing that they were not so true in a different, typically larger, context. This little corner of the world wide interweb has had many incarnations in its almost-four years. It has many related corners, some stepbrothers, distant cousins. Most recently this particular space has gone a bit more distant, with the occasional opaque emotional catharsis. But hopefully what it's intended to be: less fluff and more stuff. <img src="files/2005/04/DSCN2473.jpg" /> But I feel another wave of transparency coming on. 2005* is becoming a year of breaking, transition, death, birthing. Everyone is feeling it. We're all not quite scared but still wondering why it has to be and wishing it didn't have to. I'm going to start by talking even more about <a href="http://integrationresearch.org">IR</a>. But not tonight. Later... *Or maybe the 00's? With varying degrees of acuteness?23030535MinutiaDaniel2005-04-23T03:04:35stageOn Web Design, 3<a href="http://danielsjourney.com/blog/index.php?file=2005_03.xml&id=29104609">part 1</a>, <a href="http://danielsjourney.com/blog/index.php?file=2005_04.xml&id=21134256">part 2</a>. I would say that the <a href="http://myspace.com/">two</a> <a href="http://www.livejournal.com/">services</a> I'm bashing in my series here are successful because they allow for ppl to easily connect with one another...except I would say it is far from easy. Methinks it is a combination of content + features, and not well executed features, but simply the fact that those features exist. And most of all that those features appeal to the biggest net demographic: teenagers. Examples: livejournal: centralized and free service, friends-only posts, friends lists, community LJ's. Most teenagers are not so interested in being part of some global bullshit conversation mostly comprised of geeks and digerati (i.e. non-ugly geeks). They want a way to communicate with their friends that prevents their mothers and ex-boyfriends from reading along. Out of the gate, LJ nailed the concept that ppl want tools to <a href="http://www.theyblinked.com/blog/2004/12/december-25th-first-day-of-christmas.html">share life with the people they are already in community with</a>. Because hazardous UI's are not such a big deal to teenagers, the young being more adaptable etc., the features and eventual demographic critical mass won. myspace: music. I attribute most of myspace's success with their integration of a music player. That got bands on there. Who listens to and buys the most music etc? Again, a critical mass of the right demo was key. Doesn't matter that the thing is a total mess and has blinking 400x400 punch the monkey ads in the middle of every page. Doesn't. Fucking. Matter. I'm not *really* saying design doesn't matter, I'm just saying that design doesn't matter. It's down the list. First you have to be satisfying some need, then if social factors are involved you need to quickly get to a critical mass. That's it. Screw the interface design. I'm being my own devil's advocate here. Because <a href="http://underde.com/swim/features/">a superior UI is one of our selling points for SWIM</a>. I'm purposefully deconstructing. Because personally, *I can't stand most of the web-based UI's in existence* (even the ones the digerati have fallen in love with). They frustrate the heyZeus out of me. But I'm obviously in the minority, because the ones that I like the least are the most popular (and still I use LJ all the time). As someone trying to carve out a space in these markets, I need to become more objective about these issues. This wasn't very conclusion-y. I'm actually not really trying to carve out space in these markets. I've known that doing consumer software, particularly web-based software, is about as fun as talking theology with an evangelical, or banging one's head against a brick wall, etc. Despite appearances, we (the collective we, IR and under[de] and whomever else) have been focusing primarily on specific markets where our applications could be used to the greatest benefit. The great cloud of internet users (read: teenagers, geeks, and retirees) is a shit market. This is what/where it gets you: <img src="files/2005/04/bins=1.gif" alt="myspace.com ad" title="myspace.com ad"/> 22140705DesignDaniel2005-04-22T02:06:40stageOn Web Design, 2When I said <a href="http://danielsjourney.com/blog/index.php?file=2005_04.xml&id=20022237">rash</a>, that was being unfair to myself: both decisions were made after many weeks of deliberation. Kinda forgot about my "On Web Design" "series" ...<a href="http://danielsjourney.com/blog/index.php?file=2005_03.xml&id=29104609">part one</a>. The reason <a href="http://danielsjourney.com/blog/index.php?file=2005_04.xml&id=07152444">SWIM was so delayed</a> was because a lot of deliberate decisions were made, then iteratively re-made; code written and rewritten and yet to be rewritten some more...what has actually been released as version 1.0 (now a 1.01 emergency bug-fix release) is actually the fifth version...the version that still runs this web site is a combination of the second and third. A minor observation I've made is that the cool kids (i.e. <a href="http://flickr.com/">flickr</a>, <a href="http://del.icio.us/">del.icio.us</a>, <a href="http://basecamphq.com/">basecamp</a>, etc.) just put out the good goods first/fast/etc. So if <a href="http://www.kottke.org/05/04/google-maps-and-user-experience">it is the experience that makes the difference</a><a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/veen?m=196">*</a>, why are the <a href="http://myspace.com/">most popular social software service</a> and <a href="http://www.livejournal.com/">most popular blogging software</a> both crappy user experiences? Suddenly I'm still not in the mood to make any conclusions. More later... <img src="http://danielsjourney.com/blog/files/2005/04/zzzmkghilkj27.jpg" />21134256DesignDaniel2005-04-21T01:42:25stageMy Mathis Piece<img src="http://danielsjourney.com/blog/files/2005/04/mypainting_x400w.jpg" alt="nick mathis painting" /> Besides the dog, the other rash<a href="index.php?file=2005_04.xml&id=21134256">*</a> purchase of 2005 has been a rather large painting by the amazing Dallas-based painter Nicholas Mathis. I kinda did a deal and am developing <a href="http://pigeonstoneproject.com/">pigeonstoneproject.com</a> as partial payment. But it was still a lot of money. Is a lot of money...I'm still paying it off...right now in books Nic has requested. But then my first payment on it went straight towards his rent...literally. But it is so worth it. I'm just worried that when I move I won't have a wall large enough to hang it on. Here is a shot that has the piece in context: <img src="http://danielsjourney.com/blog/files/2005/04/DSCN2467.jpg" alt="my place with bit of mathis piece" /> This is a classic photograph of Nic that is part of Sarah Jane's <a href="http://www.sarahjanesemrad.com/shows/cat_continental_gallery.html">current show</a>: <a href="http://www.sarahjanesemrad.com/shows/continental_gallery/mathis_one.html"><img src="http://danielsjourney.com/blog/files/2005/04/mathis%20one.jpg" alt="nic mathis by sarah jane semrad" /></a>20022237MinutiaDaniel2005-04-20T02:22:15stageOn the wall it said...<blockquote>7. Good Bartending, 2005     bar, wine, beer, artist as bartender.     Dimensions variable     artist acquires gratuities through superb service while tending bar     (collection of the artist)</blockquote><img src="files/2005/04/jb_00.jpg" /> <img src="files/2005/04/jb_01.jpg" /> <img src="files/2005/04/jb_02.jpg" />19104214ImaginingDaniel2005-04-19T10:41:45stageWishing I Had Something More Interesting To Blog About...By Way of Some Housekeeping<a href="http://www.halsamples.com/blog/files/2005/01/artist%20-%20Track%203.mp3">VAST - Dont Take your Love Away From Me</a> (5.8M mp3 via <a href="http://www.halsamples.com/blog">Hal Samples</a>) ...also check out Amos Lee--good stuff! <a href="http://www.halsamples.com/blog/files/2005/03/Amos%20Lee%20-%20Keep%20It%20Loose,%20Keep%20It%20right.mp3">Keep It Loose, Keep It Tight</a>, <a href="http://www.halsamples.com/blog/files/2005/03/Amos%20Lee%20-%20Seen%20it%20all%20Before.mp3">Seen It All Before</a>, <a href="http://www.halsamples.com/blog/files/2005/03/Amos%20Lee%20-%20Bottom%20of%20the%20Barrel.mp3">Bottom of the Barrel</a>, ...there are some more up there but I'll make you look for 'em. If anyone has any of my VHS/DVD's, Chuck Palahniuk books, or Mike Riddell books, could you please return them sometime soon? Anyone with the new Iron and Wine wanna put it on the mediashare? I was a little concerned when I <a href="http://danielsjourney.com/blog/index.php?file=2005_04.xml&id=05103943">posted that picture of dogs humping</a> that someone would think one of them was my dog, Pavlov. Of course, I haven't mentioned my dog yet, <a href="http://www.theyblinked.com/blog/2005/03/daniel-just-looked-at-me-and-said-in.html">only Dan has</a>. I got him from the <a href="http://www.spca.org">SPCA</a> in January. He's a 36lbs chocolate lab/chow/whatever mix and mostly a lot of trouble. Here's a picture of him, looking much meaner than he is, playing with his best friend in the world, Perlican: <img src="http://daniel.integrationresearch.org/blog/files/2005/04/small/Image(21).jpg" alt="pavlov" /> That's him on the right: <img src="http://daniel.integrationresearch.org/blog/files/2005/04/small/Image(23).jpg" /> I'll leave you with a couple links: <a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/brevity/sets/164195/">50 ppl see...</a> <a href="http://mediamatters.org/items/200503040002">Daily Show: The Secrets of New Journalism Success</a>18130144MinutiaDaniel2005-04-18T01:00:24stageTwo Shows Not to be Missed<a href="http://www.integrationresearch.org/gallery/archives/2005/03/zachary_broadhurst_413512.html"><img src="http://www.integrationresearch.org/gallery/archives/newfineart-fontside(example).jpg" /> Zachary Broadhurst</a>. All my lit-hip friends will want to make sure they make it to this one, this Saturday at <a href="http://irgallery.net">the Gallery</a>. Zach's work is all about text. The gigantic, orange "Bomb Threat Checklist" (not pictured) is worth it alone. <a href="http://dallasobserver.com/issues/2005-04-14/calendar/calendar2.html">From the Dallas Observer</a>: <blockquote>As writers, text is important to us. We depend on it to get our point across; we visualize it when we're trying to think of the perfect phrase; and we read it with the voracity of a starving dog tearing at a juicy bone. Put words, or typefaces rather, in the hands (and bizarrely genius mind) of Dallas artist Zachary Broadhurst, and you've got the sometimes menacing, sometimes comforting, always hypnotizing work...</blockquote> <img src="files/2005/04/boiling-below-the-surface.jpg" align="left" /> <a href="http://sarahjanesemrad.com">Sarah Jane Semrad</a>, Friday, from 7:00 - 10:00 PM at the Continental Gallery, 3311 Elm St. Sarah Jane's lith prints of local artists are both inspiring and important. Especially if you're from Dallas. This is also the launch party for the sorta-maybe-kinda-new-incarnation of IR Gallery, <a href="http://www.pigeonstoneproject.com/">pigeonstoneproject.com</a>. Also, <a href="http://www.sarahjanesemrad.com/shows/continental_gallery/miller.html">I'm a subject</a>. ;)13190833AnnouncementsDaniel2005-04-13T07:08:05stageAT LONG LAST: SWIM 1.0<a href="http://underde.com/swim"><img src="http://www.integrationresearch.org/images/swim_graphic_2005_03.png" alt="SWIM: Smart Web Information Management" /> under[de]construction present SWIM for public consumption</a>. Despite yours truly having a temperature of over 100 for the last 24 hours, <a href="http://underde.com">we've</a> managed to get the SWIM site in shape enough to put the link for the download up there. We finished the 1.0 release <a href="http://danielsjourney.com/blog/index.php?file=2005_04.xml&id=31232534">last Friday</a> and announced it to our email list. Now we have the license online, as well as forums, etc. <a href="http://demo.underde.com/">Check out the live demo/default template in action</a> and/or <a href="http://demo.underde.com/swim/">log into the demo admin interface</a> with user/pass demo/demo. Or <a href="http://underde.com/swim/forum/">check out the forums</a> (built on SWIM 1.1). Or <a href="http://underde.com/swim/features/">see features</a> or <a href="http://underde.com/swim/screenshots/">screenshots</a>. Or <a href="http://underde.com/swim/download/">just download the thing and install it on yer server</a>. We purport a 30 second installation. <img src="http://danielsjourney.com/blog/files/2005/04/SWIM_31_days_late.png" alt="31 days late on about a third goal set [Mar 1]" /> This has been a <a href="http://integrationresearch.org/node/view/41" title="Had you seen what I was about to release back then, you would know that the wait has been well worth it. That product worked. This product rocks.">long time coming.</a> Creating and releasing software has been, <a href="http://integrationresearch.org/taxonomy/page/or/60" title="Smart Commons and Smart Commons Collection">once again</a>, a longer-than-expected, oftentimes frustrating to the bone experience, <a href="http://danielsjourney.com/blog/index.php?file=2005_03.xml&id=30112501">even up to the last minute</a>. But I am proud. My fever and I are going back to bed now.07152444AnnouncementsDaniel2005-04-07T03:23:34stageThe Vice and Virtue Ministry<img src="files/2005/04/HB1.jpg" /> Last Saturday was <a href="http://happybullets.com/">The Happy Bullets</a> CD release party at <a href="http://goodrecords.com/">Good Records</a>. Since you missed it, you have another chance, <a title="Tah-Dah's and Happy Bullets CD Release show with FISHBOY">April 7th @ Rubber Gloves Denton, TX</a> and/or <a title="Tah-Dah's and Happy Bullets CD Release show with The Theater Fire">April 8th Sons of Hermann Hall Dallas, TX</a>. This is one of those things that <a href="http://daniel.integrationresearch.org/blog/index.php?file=2004_11.xml&id=22235616">was supposed to happen last year</a>. A few days after <a href="http://fray.com/events/fray_day_8_dallas/">Fray Day</a>, the Bullets came into <a href="http://irgallery.net">the Gallery</a> to record an acoustic set on my <a href="http://www.korg.com/gear/info.asp?a_prod_no=D12&category_id=3">D12</a>. It was a great time, and, considering the equipment, a really great recording. It just took me months to get around to spending the hour mixing it down. <a href="http://daniel.integrationresearch.org/media/Happy%20Bullets%20-%20Live%20at%20the%20IR%20Gallery/" style="font-weight:bold;">The Happy Bullets - Live at the IR Gallery</a> Two of these tunes are not available on <a href="http://www.undeniablerecords.net/buy.htm" title="BUY IT NOW!!! SERIOUS!">their new record</a>. And I'll leave you with this: <img src="files/2005/04/LH1.jpg" />05103943MusicDaniel2005-04-05T10:39:13stageOn Web Design, *aside*I haven't even written part two and I have an aside already. And I'm going to publish this before I even put my own commentary on it. There has been a shitstorm around <a href="http://wordpress.org">WordPress</a> these last couple days. <a href="http://www.waxy.org/archive/2005/03/30/wordpres.shtml">Here's where it starts</a>, <a href="http://photomatt.net/2005/04/01/a-response/">Here's where it ends</a> as far as I'm concerned; <a href="http://www.jluster.org/2005/03/spam-matt-wordpressorg-and-i-am-exhausted-bad-mix/">here</a> <a href="http://www.jluster.org/2005/03/thank-you/">is</a> <a href="http://www.jluster.org/2005/03/2-spam-2-spam/">a</a> <a href="http://www.jluster.org/2005/03/amen/">whole</a> <a href="http://www.kottke.org/remainder/05/03/8002.html">lot</a> <a href="http://blog.360.yahoo.com/blog-N8qaF5IzeqS.Nbzj3G9fxw--?p=21&n=28500">of</a> <a href="http://www.waxy.org/archive/2005/04/01/wordpres.shtml">stuff</a> <a href="http://photomatt.net/2005/03/31/back-online/">inbetween</a>, <a href="http://www.eweek.com/article2/0,1759,1781275,00.asp">some</a> <a href="http://msnbc.msn.com/id/6409077">of</a> <a href="http://slashdot.org/articles/05/03/31/196220.shtml?tid=217">it</a> <a href="http://www.theregister.co.uk/2005/03/31/cnet_weblog_keyword_scam/">nasty</a> <a href="http://arstechnica.com/news.ars/post/20050331-4759.html">etc</a> <a href="http://www.metafilter.com/mefi/40845">etc</a>. What I will say in the meantime is I met <a href="http://photomatt.net">Matt</a> at <a href="http://danielsjourney.com/blog/index.php?cat=SXSWi.05">SXSW</a>, on one occasion holding him up in the free booze line at the <a href="http://buzz.blogger.com/2005/03/blogger-party-smash-success.html">Blogger party</a> to talk about CMS, WordPress, <a href="http://underde.com/swim">SWIM</a>, and primarily, <a href="http://dictionary.reference.com/search?q=monetization">monetization</a>. He is a good soul. That ppl would flame him is just proof of what an <a href="http://lj-images.poisonkitty.net/">odd place the interweb is</a>. [[update... Originally via <a href="http://www.corante.com/many/archives/2005/03/31/stuff_that_gets_spammed_part_n.php">Clay's M2M post</a>, to which <a href="http://www.corante.com/many/archives/2005/04/01/technoethics_what_is_evil.php">Danah replies moderately PO'd (at Matt) like</a>, and doesn't like two <a href="http://dougal.gunters.org/blog/2005/03/31/the-wordpresshotnacho-seo-debacle">defenses</a> of Matt (one I already linked to). <a href="http://del.icio.us/theyblinked">Theyblinked responds by saying</a>, "What we really need is a revenue model for social entrepreneurs," and in one sentence says what I was probly going to take 4 paragraphs to say here when I got around to it. <a href="http://integrationresearch.org">IR</a> is supposed to be (at least partially) about exactly that. Except IR is a socially entrepreneuristic venture (by, primarily, yours truly). As old as sin: chicken or egg? Sometimes it feels like we're randomly harvesting DNA and when we get it shoved all together we'll be happy if it's a <a href="http://www.google.com/search?q=jackalope" title="The Jackalope (Lepus-temperamentalus) is one of the rarest animals in the world.">jackalope</a>. Supposedly, this kind of work <a href="http://daniel.integrationresearch.org/blog/files/2005/01/zzzzzz7654159.jpg" title="a loose confederation of skunk works...joined by insanity">is one of my strengths</a>. But it gets tiring, and expensive, and stressful, and will kill you sooner or later. Of course, I still think it is worth it. Point is, when <a href="http://www.corante.com/many/archives/2005/04/01/technoethics_what_is_evil.php">academics who get paid to blog</a> complain about the ethics of a situation that had essentially zero net effect on the public...I dunno...this isn't Enron...this is the kind of situation myself and my ppl are far too familiar with: the back (interesting Freudian) bank account falling fast towards zero while we bust our ass to get software out the door or ideas off the fucking ground. Matt leveraged social capital (in the way of Google pagerank) that he earned, fair and square. We all do that, to one degree or another. Most of the time, <a href="http://danielsjourney.com/blog/index.php?file=2005_01.xml&id=13191458">we gain that social capital by inheriting it or through stupid luck...and then lord it over ppl as if</a>...I have a song lyric that goes, "There are those with social success that they call being blessed." <a href="http://thecommunityengine.com/">Bud Gibson</a> said it well in the comments to Danah's M2M post: <blockquote>Who bears the cost of free and open source software? You assume a commons, and that is correct. Many take and few contribute, so the classic tragedy is set. Developers and maintainers bear the cost, and they have to have some way to monetize what they get in return. Strange ethics that constrains them in doing this without placing an onus on users to contribute actual cash. Such ethics would feel well at home in any witch trial.</blockquote> I just wish ppl would stop acting as if Matt hasn't/doesn't bust his ass and wallet for WordPress. Yes he has reaped some rewards, but I'm pretty sure his job at CNET is not completely comprised of flying around the country and working on WordPress. end of rantish update. damn that felt good this morning.]]01140235DesignDaniel2005-04-01T14:02:17stage april foolsmy definitive list of jokes worth seeing or reading about (will add to as i find more): <a href="http://www.livejournal.com/users/news/84435.html">Brad's Corner</a> <a href="http://waferbaby.com/archives/aprilfools/2005/">waferbaby</a> <a href="http://stopdesign.com/">stopdesign</a> (keep hitting refresh!) <a href="http://www.dynamicobjects.com/d2r/archives/003170.html">dynamicobjects</a> <a href="http://www.google.com/googlegulp/">Google</a> <a href="http://www.lowresolution.com/archive/000485.php">lowresolution</a> <a href="http://underde.com/swim/SWIM1.0b/">SWIM was released today</a>31232534MinutiaDaniel2005-04-01T09:25:10stage