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On Friday night, David Foster Wallace, a man whose words have done more than just about anyone on the planet to confront me, comfort me, console me, break me down, build me up, and create the person who is now known as Bryan Woods decided to kill himself.
I wanted to write some thoughts on all […]

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Ah, yes.  Open Source.  The Utopia of the software world.  The land in which all software is free, and all bugs are patched quickly.
At least that’s what it used to mean.  Or at least what it still means to some people some of the time.
For better or worse, the term Open Source has changed drastically […]

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Finally, Finally, Finally: Open Sourced:
The Bird Cage Theater - Self Titled (2007)
This album is now available under the Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-Share Alike 3.0 United States License. What does this mean? Basically, do with it as you please. Download it, upload it, share it with friends, mash it up, remix it, […]

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I am now recovering from one of the more lengthy and painful periods of being more or less unemployed, and am currently working for a great team at a great startup working on great technologies.
Phew.  It was a close one.
However, before I ended up at my current place of employment, I had the opportunity to […]

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Link to Podcast
In this podcast, I rant about Obie Trice, Time Magazine’s feature on Lil Wayne, Texas Congressman John Culberson, AOL Instant Messanger, Processing, and Indie Rock.

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Why Using Seesmic in Video Comments is Kind of Silly 

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Last night a tweet came through my twitterstream that grabbed my attention.It was sent by Ted Rheingold, the founder of dogster:
“Why doesn’t Apple’s MobileMe have social features?  Apple gets A LOT right, but it’s as if they want to skip the social revolution“
This is definitely a thought-provoking question, and one you could easily imagine coming […]

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I don’t know when it happened, since I hadn’t checked in for almost a year, but McSweeneys’ Internet Tendency finally added RSS feeds for new posts.
It’s great, and a good percentage of what scrolls past me in Snackr is now McSweeney’s-derived.
This is a really great (albeit strangely late) step for McSweeney’s, but their reluctance to […]

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You’re not going to find any news breaking on this blog as the keynote unfolds and everybody goes crazy, but what I will say, quickly, as we all sit and wait for the speech is this:
Apple has built a stronger brand than has ever been created before.
Think about it.  We all know what’s going to […]

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Edit 6/4/08 - Jay from the Switchabit team has again proven to be very helpful and the problems seem at this point to be very creepy indeed, but not Switchabit related.  If Jay’s diagnosis (involving multiple IPs from my router) is correct, then their help has amounted to far more than content distribution hiccups.  Still […]

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