open source and business

history internet

Paul Graham writes about open source and business.

It’s interesting. And long, so I post it here when having read only 20%.

In the background sings Dawn Upshaw, found without effort and within 5 seconds via Yahoo audio. Nice.

fifteen years ago

history marketing media

With a friend I started a little Ad Agency in 1990 called “Thema”.

We sold ads in computer games. Made games to promotes ads in them.

Now it would work:
pong

But now everybody is doing it.

a sad occasion

BlogsNow history media

This is a sad day. The terror in London is on everybodies mind.

BlogsNow was written to be a fast reflector of what is going on in the world. Right now 64 out of the 100 links are related to the events in London. The top 17 links are all about it.

Here how other tools look right now:

technorati
people search allot for it, but the link list still focuses on yesterdays olympic nomination

blogdex
as usual blogdex has no clue, and it will be like this for a while

daypop
same here

BlogsNow
I wish I could have done this comparision with a more positive event.

3 hours later:
Server crashes. Again. Now I know that it is mysqlhotcopy when making a backup. While running the mysql repair I run out of disk space. All those bin-log files. Then I am stupid again and ctrl-c the repair. It would have waited for disk space. Then I tried to move the mysql data dir to another disk. Which takes some while. Then mysql does not want to start from that disk. Since I have no time for a dive into the manual I move things back and start it again. With the result that BlogsNow now shows results from 24 hours ago. Maybe I should learn something here?

Right now I like blogdex’ Version of the latest news much better. It is yesterdays. Yesterday was better than today.

the new news media

BlogsNow history

as BlogsNow fills with London links

since Gore invented it,

history internet politics

Bush likes to keep it

OK, it’s a myth that Mr G. claimed that. But a nice myth.
Next stop for Al: reinventing TV, by prooving that viewers are not needed.
Next stop for George: Breaking the net, by brute forcing the control of the DNS root servers and then messing it all up. Finally we will have those internets that he has been talking about. Some
that work and others that don’t.

interactive map

history politics

of iraq

oh no!

daily life history

shark attacks were also dominating the news in September 1 – 10 2001.

A Terrror attack would help GWB ratings probably more than the capture of OBL.

let’s revisit last year

history politics

whatever happened to this ?

There were neither arrests, nor were there any attacks.
Did those bad guys retire to florida?

pictures

history photo technology

of modern day ruins

unfuckingbelievable

history politics


"We went to war because we were attacked, and we are at war today because there are still people out there who want to harm our country and hurt our citizens,"

via Yahoo

this is insane. There is NO connection between Iraq and 9/11.
Nothing. Zilch. Nada.
But Mr B. likes to make one. Since with 9/11 you pretty much can justify anything.
Just there is no connection between that country that event.
Nothing.