When I was learning to ski for biathlon in the mid-nineties, I didn’t start with expensive, awesome tools. My first skis weren’t full-capped Rosignols, my first boots weren’t high-end Solomons. My skis, boots, and poles were hand-me-downs. We called these hand-me-downs rock skis because they’d been chewed up with use, and having lost bits of [...]
The Power of Immediate Collaboration
February 12, 2011 By 2 Comments
Frozen Feeds – A Story About Blog Privacy and How it Applies to Facebook
May 14, 2010 By 8 Comments
When I started blogging in 1998, it was on free services designed for just that thing. I walled my garden, created a “locked” blog, which only my friends could read. Then, sometime around 1999, more of my friends complained that they wanted to read what I was writing. So I opened up my privacy settings. [...]
What Pay Walls have in common with Maginot's Line
December 16, 2009 By 4 Comments
After the Great War, France erected a line of defence on its border with Italy and Germany, hoping that it would provide a funnel for attackers wishing to avoid the line itself, or that invaders would simply get made into hamburger by the many many guns. Unfortunately, like many reactionary measures, it was built to [...]
