Archive for June, 2008

Oil Crisis Analysis by Congressman Rosco Bartlett »

Maryland Congressman Bartlett has some incredible analysis of oil usage in the world. Incredibly well articulated state of world oil production and usage complemented with Tufte-like charts.

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Technorati Tags: Congressmen Bartlett, Edward Tufte, Oil crisis

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Links: Open Source Week in Review »

Removing Barriers to the Community - MySQL Moves to Bazaar - Jay Pipes
It is the role of a community manager to remove the barriers — both technical and ideological — between the user/developer community and the company or group of individuals which produces the open source software

Linux.com :: Lessons learned from NCSU FOSS class
As textbooks, [...]

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The “Art” of Programming »

For those of you who think writing code is just wrangling ones and zeros. You should check out these visualizations of code submissions over time to various open source projects. They are examples of organic information visualizations called Code Swarm by Michael Ogawa Ph.D. student in the Computer Science program at UC Davis.

Check out the [...]

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Marketing, SEO, and Social Media: Week in Review »

I started linkrolling my bookmarks during during this weekend’s U.S. Open but soon became obsessed by Rocco and Tiger. So here’s my marketing, SEO, and social media links for last week.

The Marketing of Fear - “The challenge of marketing with fear isn’t efficacy. Of course fear marketing works. The challenge is ethics and brand.” My [...]

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The Best Phone for Business. Ever? »

Apple is starting to push the iPhone from the realm of the trendy and hip  into the enterprise. Maybe el Jobso will be trading in his black t-shirts and Adidas running shoes for Brooks Brother suits.
Here’s the copy from the Apple web site:
What makes iPhone a great business phone? Simple. The same features that make [...]

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