NYT: “The very ambiguity of the title - Icon, or I Con? - is the first clue that the work may not be hagiography.”
Funny, until I read this I had never even thought of the icon meaning; only the I con one. Perhaps that’s due to Apple’s response to the book.
How’s that for irony?
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Caught a reference to this at inessential (via this).
At first blush it seemed like a really good idea, especially when I consider not just my blogs but also Furl, del.icio.us, and all of the other associated dren I leave trailing along behind me. But the commentary regarding the potential usage of OPML for the [...]

Rojo - Stories I’ve Shared
After an invite from Allen Searls, I was able to register for Rojo, almost exactly when they announced their own launch. S0 far I really like it.
When I first started using a web-aggregator, which is where I do my primary RSS consumption, since my company’s firewall won’t let any desktop [...]

Post Toasties
Rojo now live
I’ve been looking forward to seeing Rojo since I started reading Steve Gillmor blogging about it. I’m trying to catch the attention-train (kind of like the cluetrain), but I guess I haven’t been running fast enough to get on board yet. I was hoping that Rojo would help me understand [...]

I discovered Ubuntu a while back - back in the Warty Warthog days of yore (like, maybe, 3-4 months ago). Ordered some CDs, which was impressive by itself (What? You’ll send me free CD-ROMs? Up to 10? Where do I sign?), received them, and let them sit on my desk (well, [...]

There’s a really interesting discussion going on in the comments to this post.
It’s extremely interesting and a little unusual to see so many heavy-hitters weighing in and the ideas developing in “real time”. Typically to watch this kind of thing (if you can be a party to it at all) you have to bounce [...]

Environmental Heresies
Stewart Brand, author, founder of Whole Earth and co-founder of The WELL, and participant in The Long Now Foundation, writes convincingly about some paradigm-shifting ideas in environmentalism. He argues persuasively that population growth as a problem in diminishing, that genetically modified organisms are potential solutions to problems from hunger to invasive species, and [...]

I’ve been having some trouble with Technorati not indexing posts on this blog properly, from the tag point of view. Essentially what’s happening is that posts from house of the hanged man are not showing up consistently in the Technorait tag page.
At first I thought that Technorati wasn’t properly indexing my site. But [...]

In my last post I mentioned a free tool I discovered from www.geovid.com. It’s pretty easy to use; simply select the video you want to rip to audio, select a quality and bit-rate, and away you go. I’ve used it on a few videos, and the audio quality is fine, and it’s much [...]

Their media maybe.
I was/am excited and interested in the Ourmedia project. It’s a little hard to believe that anyone would be so generous of bandwidth and storage to offer to freely host your media for eternity, but from the folks who brought you the Internet Archive and the Wayback Machine, I suppose I should’t [...]