Most people are connected to someone, somehow. It doesn't necessarily make them happy, sad, angry or even ambivalent. How the connection is interpreted is up to anyone - but the connection remains. And I am immune, for better and worse.
Everyone has at least one story - and that story, that chain of events, has as many translations as there are perspectives on the chain of events. The popularity of a perspective determines how far the perspective is adopted. A story lost is a perspective lost. And that's the underlying issue of nationalist control of the Internet.Read more »
Since the 1990s, I've worked with web technologies for personal and professional reasons. I've been using and modifying content management systems since 2003 and have even developed modules here and there. My content management system of choice is Drupal.
My experience with Drupal includes various custom websites and their maintenance as well as intranet installations for inhouse document management. Read more »
...3rd party support for the iPad will not come from unenthusiastic developers. Rather, it will come from content publishers. Context experiences from media companies like newspaper and magazine publishers, blogs, book publishers, TV studios, and sports leagues will make the iPad valuable. Without this outside support, the iPad will fester as an expensive way to browse the Web, something competitors will quickly match at lower price-points...
When I read that I thought, What a publisher-centric way of looking at things. Let me explain. Read more »
This article on social media and the Haitian earthquake points out one of the problems that I was forecasting with the Alert Retrieval Cache (ARC) project. Bear in mind, too, that I'm not just a geek. I'm a former Navy Corpsman who was BLS-I, ACLS, PHTLS, and administrated/supervised the NTC Orlando ED for 12 hour shifts. I also turned the other way when 2 juniors were racing wheelchairs in the parking lot.Read more »
