My Friend Radio
'listen to what joe is listening to/last listened to'
ah - this does exist, I didn't know if it did; on last.fm you can listen to any other user's library radio. Too bad most of my friends don't use last.
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TechStuff
A collection of 19 issues
Writing anonymously and what's wrong with Google Plus
Second things first: Google Plus is too all-encompassing and controlling. I can't get a feed to publish elsewhere, or hack at, or stream, or store as text. Anything I write there lives ONLY in Google Plus, it seems, and can be taken out only manually.
And I'
bTeaching - finally!
I've been wanting to start this site for years, finally doing it. Its not themed yet, but a bit of content is there: bTeaching.com - everyday ideas for learning and teaching. The idea is to capture teaching ideas, large and small, and relate them to subjects, age
Why do we program computers to interrupt us?
I despise typeahead options. In conversation with a friend, it would drive most people crazy if their friend kept finishing their sentences for them, or worse providing them with options! Yet we program computers to do this to us. Nothing disrupts my train of thought worse than suddenly being reminded
Tucson Developers' Co-op
Check out http://tucson.devcoop.org, where me and a few friends are kicking off a new group of indie developers who get together to check out each other's stuff. I like having collaborators but can't stand meetings, so this is an 'unmeeting' -
Big projects have three stages...
"I've learned that big projects have three stages: fantasy, dream and plan. The fantasy stage is all in your head, obviously, but eventually you decide you're ready to get a little bit more real. The dream stage is where you actually start thinking about the
Trust and Journalism
Much has been written about the impending demise of journalism. No doubt, papers and magazines are in trouble, and with them the usual revenue stream of the professional journalist.
Ellen Goodman wrote a recent column in which she made a great call that crowdsourcing leads to the basing of facts
The ultimate organizer - will it be a web app?
One of the holy grails of programming is the ultimate personal organizer, that place where you can put all your stuff and find it exactly when you want it. In some incarnations it knows what you want before you do; in others its a passive but perfect file cabinet.
Many
Useful Telecommute Links
The real telecommute jobs are often found squirrelled away in forums specific to certain frameworks or languages. Here's a few that are useful to check:
StackOverflow telecommute jobs are high quality and posted often Dice telecommute jobs if you like big companies that can afford Dice http://startuply.