Monthly Archives: May 2006

funny stuff

A few people have emailed me asking about my absence, so here’s a quick note saying hello to everyone. I’ve been off doing fun things, usually involving riding one of my bikes fast, far, or both. For some content, here’s a great comment I found on the MySpace of one of the [...]

why does library polity create such harsh policy?

Dang! Take a look at Don’t scar on the first cut from Signal vs. noise. Here are a few pull outs:
Policies are codified overreactions to unlikely-to-happen-again situations. A collective punishment for the wrong-doings of a one-off.
The problem with policies are that they compound and eventually add up to the rigidity of bureaucracy [...]

IM news

A while back I posted about a downloadable IM client from MySpace and it is now available for download. They’re calling it MySpaceIM. The really funny thing about this is that just yesterday, some news came out about AIM’s forthcoming AIM Pages [article, screenshot], which is being touted as a MySpace killer. [...]