Archive for August, 2006

On permanence and identity
Thursday, August 24th, 2006

I observed something interesting while migrating my servers last week. In the process of the migration I changed the domain of my blog from www.unto.net to <a href=””http://blog.unto.net/”>blog.unto.net. As a consequence, the permalink of each article also changed. To the average reader or visitor this change was transparent. First, my syndicated content feed is proxied [...]

SF Tech Sessions, August 2006
Thursday, August 24th, 2006

SF Tech Sessions met last night to discuss online media distribution. Thanks to Niall Kennedy for putting everything together, and thanks to CNET for hosting. We heard first from Bart Myers of Guba. Bart talked about how Guba, which has been around for years as a front-end for usenet binary archives, has been actively working [...]

Bye Bye BlackBerry
Wednesday, August 23rd, 2006

It is really amusing seeing Dave getting so darn excited about his new BlackBerry. While I understand his enthusiasm about being able to read (and write) syndicated content on a mobile device, I personally arrived at a totally different place with my BlackBerry. In fact, that place would be hurling the damn thing over the [...]

On Web 2.0, in Hebrew
Wednesday, August 23rd, 2006

Eran Lahav wrote to tell me that he has translated one of my posts into Hebrew. (Hurray for Creative Commons!) Here is the Hebrew version of “On Web 2.0.” And here is the original English version. Could one of my Israeli friends please give it a read and tell me how it sounds?

It’s an APP world, after all
Wednesday, August 23rd, 2006

Darren Chamberlain writes: I was going to post this as a comment to the Blogging In Flock post, but I see you’ve closed comments on that post. It looks like Elias Torres has implemented an APP server for WordPress. I haven’t tried it, but it looks interesting, and Elias usually makes good stuff. Thanks for [...]