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  • Twitter Updates for 2008-08-18

    • @ravenzachary congrats, Raven! Lord knows I’m not an iPhan but I like to see good people get good gigs #
    • @Roebot anybody done a wordpress <-> deki integration? #
    • @Roebot by that I mean, keeping synchronized user accounts in addition to content syncing #
    • really really slooooow on a Monday #
    • @irabinovitch yeah, I’m using that wordpress plugin, but I was wanting more (as usual) 🙂 #
    • @Roebot cool, thanks #
    • gah… finally solved wordpress auth issue – wordpress ditched md5 hashing at v. 2.5. had to dl plugin so deki could auth w/ wordpress #
    • @uid0 LOL… no thanks… sucker! 🙂 #
    • @DaveTaylor havoc reeks? who knew? I wonder what it smells like #
    • shit.. I missed WordCamp ARG #
    • GeekPAC Update: 30% towards fundraising goal! http://tinyurl.com/5lz8as Tell your friends! #
    • gosh, wouldn’t it be awesome if we Americans had some foreign policy credibility to spend on the Georgia dilemma? Why yes, I think it would #
    • @mjasay LOL… yeah, you would think that a 140 char limit would force that out of my tweets 🙂 #
    • video of Subversion history, codeswarm style: http://www.collab.net/community/subversion/codeswarm/ (Thanks to C. M. Pilato) #

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  • Twitter Updates for 2008-08-15

    • @uid0 it’s ok, your secret’s safe with me. just don’t say it too loud, or teh google might hear you #
    • GeekPAC fundraiser update: at 15% of our goal – http://tinyurl.com/5lz8as steady as she goes! #
    • GeekPAC fundraiser update: 25% of the way there! http://tinyurl.com/5lz8as #
    • @Silona oh that would be teh awesome #
    • @Silona by the way, I’m getting some opposition to the term “GeekPAC” – but I don’t yet know how significant it is #
    • @guyma that is good news! I’ll be watching them #
    • @rachelchalmers when it comes to app config, I just dislike not being able to edit text directly. XML implies needing another tool #
    • @rachelchalmers having said that, I’m well aware of the advantages of a lingua franca for web services. #
    • @TheInfovore congrats on your @vidoop gig! #
    • @rgeorge28 is Lonn on twitter? #
    • serendipity rules the day as I ran into @NetDiva while running to 21A #
    • @amcpherson we knew it was coming #

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  • Twitter Updates for 2008-08-14

    • OMG, *the* Tomme Arthur, brewmaster from Lost Abbey, just friended me on Facebook. I’m such a fanboi 🙂 #
    • LWN covers GeekPAC: http://lwn.net/SubscriberLink/293811/110b439cfa1d7d6f/ Thanks go to @lisah #
    • money quote: “So lots of digerati… talk ‘digital rights’ this and ‘DRM’ that, and it becomes a kind of high-tech circle jerk” #
    • @jrep I know 🙁 both surprising and depressing #
    • @jrep ack, I may need to adjust how my blog posts to twitter. need to make sure authors get attribution #
    • so… is it bad form to ask for diggs on twitter? http://tinyurl.com/5vvh9p #
    • @garethgreenaway ok, cool. I’ve seen too many diggers get berated on LUG lists. makes me think that’s default behavior #
    • @storming gosh, wonder what story the spammers would concoct 🙂 #
    • @guyma I feel your pain #
    • rt @MichaelSinger ” http://tinyurl.com/5ub9d2 Georgia-Russia War explained with a peanut butter face ” me: farking brilliant! #
    • @hunleyd @guyma @jrep so how many of us are there, anyway? #
    • @kucharo hey, don’t insult zinfandel like that! #
    • @kucharo tee hee… how ya been, man? long time, no see #

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  • GeekPAC to fight for information rights

    This is a nice introductory article about GeekPAC and its goals. Basically, a PAC is forming to address much needed intellectual property reform in the US – think copyright reform, patent reform, DMCA reform, etc. read more | digg story

  • LWN.net Covers GeekPAC

    This was an article published on LWN, written by Lisa Hoover. A very nice compendium of who we are and what we’re about:

    Link to article.

    Fundable.org page

  • Twitter Updates for 2008-08-13

    • @mjasay @bryce you guys are scaring me 🙁 I guess I still have a few years to go yet #
    • hey this phelps guy isn’t bad 🙂 #
    • Ugh… USA down to 10 men to Nigeria… and now down a goal. #olympics #
    • halftime USA 0 : 1 NGR Orozco for US gets tossed in 4th minute for an elbow, and it’s all downhill from there. #olympics #
    • aaarrrrggg… holden misses the open net. still Nigeria 1-0 53rd minute #olympics #
    • Football is a cruel sport. USA crashes out of the first round of the olympics losing 2-1 to NGR #
    • US were 1min away from advancing when they inexplicably fouled the Dutch who converted the free kick. fscking dutch #olympics #
    • @jclingan guilty as charged 🙂 #
    • @hunleyd woah, now you’ve got me curious 😉 #
    • @DaveTaylor US really should have done better. Honestly, they looked better than the rest of group B. Too many mental lapses and naive play #
    • @DaveTaylor being a US soccer fan is very much akin to rooting for the Cubs. you know you’re gonna lose, and coming close just hurts more #
    • @lisah mmmm… cupcakes! #
    • So… did anyone die from the VMware bug? Hey @ragavan I’m talking to you 🙂 #
    • @timoreilly subprime was the worst of both worlds. As was the CA energy “deregulation” debacle. just regulated enough to prevent competition #
    • @TheInfovore yeah, exactly. it was a cruel fate for the USA this time around. On the plus side, I think we filled some nice holes for 2010 #
    • @guyma bah, I’ve been here all along. where have you been? 😉 #
    • @jrep so what do you do with all those silly exchange calendar requests? it’s the only reason I use evolution. #
    • just lost my zappos virginity. not sure how I feel about that. #
    • every now and then, I peruse crackmonkey.org and pigdog.org to remind myself what the internet used to be. #
    • @daveofdoom bah, just use kopete already 😉 #
    • @NetDiva oh, now I feel much better… er something #
    • @kucharo oh baby… just when you thought it was safe #

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  • Twitter Updates for 2008-08-12

    • rt @timoreilly “Andy Oram: Developing an improved online environment for educating computer users http://tinyurl.com/6kxahh ” #
    • @sogrady yes, although it’s been too long to tell you exactly how #
    • cool, LWN will cover GeekPAC. Have you shown your support yet? http://tinyurl.com/5lz8as #
    • @jclingan LOL… I feel your pain. that’s exactly what I’m doing now 🙁 #
    • weird. Evolution mail client has actually been more stable than GMail. Huh. #
    • rt @CollabNet “CollabNet SVN 1.5.1 for Windows now available, in all its awesome glory: http://www.collab.net/downloads/subversion/ ” #
    • @joshmccormack really? the search bar is one of the few things I actually like about it #
    • @lisah LOL… I always assume the interviewer knows but asks anyway because readers/listeners/viewers might not 🙂 #
    • bug fix packs for CollabNet Subversion 1.5.1 on RedHat – x86_64: http://is.gd/1oTG and x86_32: http://is.gd/CuF #
    • Do you believe in govt. transparency? Disclosure of campaign contribs? Support senate bill 223: http://is.gd/1oXq #geekpac #
    • @jrep *sigh* sad but true #
    • @brianaker that really does seem to be the future – clouds as surplus resource during usage spikes. That’s how @CollabNet uses it 🙂 #
    • @rachelchalmers re: writing headlines as if they were a tweet – what a great idea! #
    • @timoreilly that’s @puppermasterd to you 🙂 #

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  • Twitter Updates for 2008-08-11

    • @MikeTRose I just wish I could experience NBC’s Silverlight-powered website for myself *grumble* #
    • #olympics beautiful sequence from Arg vs. Aus today: http://tinyurl.com/5f8qe2 #
    • special thanks go out to @lisah @irabinovitch and @billpollock for supporting GeekPAC! #
    • via /. New Yorker article on “the tragedy of the anti-commons” http://tinyurl.com/6pfnto #
    • @Silona hey, where can I see info on your tracker protocol? I’d like to circulate that around here #
    • doh… got my first google apps failure for the day. now I know what everyone was talking about #
    • So… why do we trust Apple? http://tinyurl.com/58qqne #
    • @jzemlin since I had to name-drop you to get in the LF party, I figure I should at least follow you on twitter 🙂 #
    • @jzb 🙂 an oblique reference to the open sourcies who happily purchase iPr0ns #

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  • PublicKnowledge: Benefits of iPhone App Store tainted by 1984-like Control

    – or –

    Do We Really Like the Taste of Apple’s Remote-Kill KoolAid?

    Today’s Wall Street Journal has a story about Apple’s App Store for the iPhone. Clearly, having an easy way for mobile users to download apps is a good way to spur development and make money. According to Apple, over the past month the App Store has sold $30 million in iPhone and iPod touch apps. Of those sales, Apple should take in about $9 million, as it keeps about 30% of each app sold. While some application developers have complained about the revenue split, when one considers the costs associated with hosting the applications, cost of money changing hands, and general maintenance of the store, 30% is not unreasonable. What is increasingly unreasonable is the way Apple is controlling the App Store, both to the detriment of developers and consumers. read more

  • PublicKnowledge: Benefits of iPhone App Store tainted by 1984-like Control

    – or –

    Do We Really Like the Taste of Apple’s Remote-Kill KoolAid?

    Today’s Wall Street Journal has a story about Apple’s App Store for the iPhone. Clearly, having an easy way for mobile users to download apps is a good way to spur development and make money. According to Apple, over the past month the App Store has sold $30 million in iPhone and iPod touch apps. Of those sales, Apple should take in about $9 million, as it keeps about 30% of each app sold. While some application developers have complained about the revenue split, when one considers the costs associated with hosting the applications, cost of money changing hands, and general maintenance of the store, 30% is not unreasonable. What is increasingly unreasonable is the way Apple is controlling the App Store, both to the detriment of developers and consumers.

    read more