Commentary
Can You Be a Thought Leader Without a Blog?
First off look at blogging for what it is, at it’s deepest core, it’s writing. It’s conveying ideas using words. Before the internet this was done on paper, before that stone. People who have been thinkers always wrote down their thoughts and captured them using whatever medium was available to them at the time. In some cases that was just telling a person, who then told another person, who then to..you get the idea.
State of Wireless in Linux Distros
There in lies the problem. Wireless is now an important part of computing. While my main concern is my desktop, none of the CDs I tried had my wireless working without major hoops on my work provided laptop either (Dell Latitude D830). And wireless is pretty much standard on laptops these days. Wireless has to work and it has to be painless.
Will Crowdsourcing News Online Kill The Newspapers?
So if I can subscribe to the RSS feeds of these aggregaters main pages, I can essentially only see news items that a large number of people deem important. I’ve cut out the newspaper, CNN, BBC, almost completely (one would assume that links to these things would pop up on these aggregaters). This means that I get real news and avoid the fluff.
Why I Uninstalled TweetDeck From My iPhone
Last night after trying to use it for an entire day, I uninstalled TweetDeck from my iPhone. The app, in case you haven’t used it yet, is gorgeous. It is incredibly simple to use while retaining much of the power that can be found in the desktop version of TweetDeck, most specifically tabs. But it had it’s share of problems.
The RIAA, MPAA, & The PirateBay Trial
While I’m not going to debate if the people running The Pirate Bay are actually guilty of copyright infringement, I do want to look at something. The content creators’ undying need to 1) limit and 2) prohibit the consumer’s use of their products.
A Conservative in an Ever Growing Liberal World
I’ve been spending a lot of time over the last few months trying to analyze my beliefs, principles, and understanding of the world I live in. As I prepare to bring another child into this crazy world I feel that it is my duty to really think about some of these things. Things like politics, motives, morals, free choice, success, death, and taxes. As I watch, listen, and read about a president I didn’t vote for make bold statements and say things that to me sound contradictory, it hurts me to think where this country could possibly be in four years time.