Posted on 30 September 2008
The October edition of the Harvard Business Journal has a contributed article by Intuit co-founder Scott Cooke on how to build your business using communities. I thought it interesting that he used many of the standard “crowd-sourcing” examples like Skype and Wikipedia but no open source software examples. Given Intuit’s proprietary nature I guess I [...]
Tags: crowd sourcing, Harvard Business Review, Intuit, Scott Cook
Posted on 27 September 2008
As I mentioned before I really like Trent Reznor not only his music but his philosophy on making music. He’s cut out the record labels makes his music available for free. He does make money by selling tickets to shows and albums he produces himself.
I got this note from him this week (actually everyone who [...]
Tags: NIN, Open Source, Trent Reznor
Posted on 11 June 2008
It’s funny how varied music artists are some artists seem to get and embrace the Internet and others seem to be at war with it. According to this article on Ars Technica, Metallica doesn’t care what anyone says about their music or at least not music fans who write blogs. Apparently they released some rough [...]
Tags: Metallica, Punks, Trent Reznor
Posted on 07 June 2008
I really wanted to attend the Citizen Journalism Academy presented by the Society of Professional Journalists in Greensboro, NC today but after a hectic spring travel schedule I thought better of it and stayed home to visit with my family. Luckily local social media maven, Wayne Sutton’s (@WayneSutton on Twitter) been sending tweets with the [...]
Tags: Blogging, blogs, Publishing, Section 230, Title 47
Posted on 03 June 2008
Over the last few years there has been a lot of fanfare around open source companies and their liquidation events. Most of the news has been around Sun’s billion dollar acquisition of MySQL or the Citrix acquisition of Xen and even Yahoo’s acquisition of Zimbra. In contrast there was little attention paid to the SourceFire. [...]
Tags: ClamAV, Commerical, Community Leverage, MySQL, Open Source, Snort, SoureFire, Sun, Zimbra