The Greener Tumblelog

Turnaround of India State Could Serve as a Model - NYTimes.com

Sun, 11 Apr 2010 02:17:37 -0400

Turnaround of India State Could Serve as a Model - NYTimes.com

"Everyone wants a piece of you these days […] And you can’t wait to let them."

Sun, 11 Apr 2010 00:39:32 -0400

“Everyone wants a piece of you these days […] And you can’t wait to let them.”

- ISOC-NY Event: Eben Moglen ‘Freedom in the Cloud’ – 2/5/2010 « isoc-ny.org

"Growing your own food is better than sharecropping, better than “web 2.0”."

Sun, 11 Apr 2010 00:24:34 -0400

“Growing your own food is better than sharecropping, better than “web 2.0”.”

- towards a gnu autonomous cloud — wingolog

"the client-server paradigm is fundamentally incompatible with autonomy."

Sun, 11 Apr 2010 00:19:27 -0400

“the client-server paradigm is fundamentally incompatible with autonomy.”

- towards a gnu autonomous cloud — wingolog

"According to some estimates, more than a hundred million sharks and rays may be caught and discarded..."

Fri, 09 Apr 2010 01:56:34 -0400

“According to some estimates, more than a hundred million sharks and rays may be caught and discarded every year.”

- 8 Million Sharks Killed Accidentally off Africa Yearly

"Although most founders focus on their cash burn rate, very few focus on the burn rate of their daily..."

Fri, 02 Apr 2010 01:48:33 -0400

“Although most founders focus on their cash burn rate, very few focus on the burn rate of their daily time.”

- Top 5 Books for Entrepreneurs from 2009

"… we are ripping out CouchDB from pcapr and moving to an all Java, Hibernate, MySQL stack."

Thu, 01 Apr 2010 18:16:49 -0400

“… we are ripping out CouchDB from pcapr and moving to an all Java, Hibernate, MySQL stack.”

- Mu Dynamics Research Labs » Blog Archive » Why NoSQL is bad for startups

"… our engineers are starting to not show up to work. They get everything done in a few hours..."

Thu, 01 Apr 2010 18:14:47 -0400

“… our engineers are starting to not show up to work. They get everything done in a few hours and go home and the office looks like it’s haunted. Not good, not good at all.”

- Mu Dynamics Research Labs » Blog Archive » Why NoSQL is bad for startups

"We followed the most radical voices in the party and the movement, and they led us to abject and..."

Wed, 24 Mar 2010 02:42:14 -0400

“We followed the most radical voices in the party and the movement, and they led us to abject and irreversible defeat.”

- Waterloo | FrumForum

"it’s the document-oriented databases […] that hold the most promise for enterprises in the..."

Sun, 21 Mar 2010 03:26:20 -0400

“it’s the document-oriented databases […] that hold the most promise for enterprises in the short term.”

- NoSQL Database Movement Gains Ground as Alternative - Database from eWeek

"You know you’re a peasant when you worship the very people who are right now, this minute, conning..."

Sun, 21 Mar 2010 01:59:07 -0400

“You know you’re a peasant when you worship the very people who are right now, this minute, conning you and taking your shit.”

- The peasant mentality lives on in America | The Smirking Chimp

"America’s Real Dream Team"

Sun, 21 Mar 2010 01:45:54 -0400

“America’s Real Dream Team”

- Op-Ed Columnist - America’s Real Dream Team - NYTimes.com

BBC News - Web inventor calls for government data transparency

Thu, 18 Mar 2010 05:35:05 -0400

BBC News - Web inventor calls for government data transparency:

Countries should be judged on their willingness to open up public data to their citizens, the inventor of the world wide web has told the BBC.

He said “openness of data and the neutrality of the network” should be considered as important as free speech.

The cake test of freedom

Thu, 18 Mar 2010 02:35:17 -0400

The cake test of freedom:

“At last week’s Jornadas SIG Libre in Girona, Ivan Sanchez of the Spanish OpenStreetmap community told me about the cake test of data freedom.”

What is the cake test? Easy: geographic data, or a map, is open only if someone can make you a gift of a cake with your map on it.

The cake test is inspired by the dissident test and the desert island test used by the Debian community to gauge software freedom for packages to be included in a free and open distribution. […]

"… freedom’s not just another word for anything, nor is it an optional ingredient. - Tim Bray..."

Mon, 15 Mar 2010 20:01:47 -0400

“… freedom’s not just another word for anything, nor is it an optional ingredient. - Tim Bray (blog post)”

- ongoing by Tim Bray · Now A No-Evil Zone