Artist: Ashley Wood

August 11, 2008 – 9:39 am
On vacation, I recently read China Mieville's book The Scar and upon reading some reviews of the book discovered the identity of the cover artist. His name is Ashley Wood and he seems to make some rather impressive dystopian-themed works.

Simply Brilliant

August 10, 2008 – 1:36 pm
The Orwell Prize has created a blog using Orwell's own diary entries and are releasing them 70 years late to the day. What a terrific way to redistribute such a historic author's personal ruminations.

Online Python book

August 7, 2008 – 8:43 am
I've hacked up my fair share of PHP scripts and have played around with Ruby on Rails but have been really interested in Python lately. Between what appears to be a very clean syntax and the availability of such frameworks such as Django, it seems like it could be a great language for templating and content management. I came across a great online book that I hope will help me really dive in and get a grasp on the language.

An interesting Venn on Social Media

August 7, 2008 – 7:54 am
http://www.mattjmcd.com/2008/08/a-definitive-explanation-of-social-media/This is, at the very least, an interesting start on segmenting the emerging areas of social media. I had never really checked out Squidoo before but find it's approach to social knowledge rather interesting especially how they leverage other Web services to inform their own product. One the primary challenges many of these "social applications" face, in my opinion, is struggling with utilizing other services while maintaining their own identity. It raises some very interesting questions about the definition of brand and how to best maintain an identity without becoming a diffuse entity whose value proposition is negligible.

Gwap is cool

July 27, 2008 – 8:25 pm
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List of Sci-Fi novels

July 6, 2008 – 7:42 pm
http://howtosplitanatom.com/news/32-sci-fi-novels-you-should-read/

UX for non-profits

June 15, 2008 – 11:35 am
http://www.uxsocial.org/This is a promising development. I've been thinking a lot lately about User Experience and non-profit communications and operations. I will need to keep an eye on this to see how they progress.

Interesting looking Video Conferencing gateways

June 15, 2008 – 8:30 am
http://www.3cx.com/phone-system/sip-server.htmlhttp://www.gnugk.org/VC is HUGE at work and this looks like these could be a promising solution for gateway products for SIP and H323, respectively. I will need to remember to test this out.

Great comment on Public Domain on Boing Boing

May 28, 2008 – 9:38 am
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RoR Project management tool

May 24, 2008 – 7:32 am
Redmine http://www.redmine.org/