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techsphere

Glenn Beck’s crusade against Network Neutrality

May 17, 2010

Glenn Beck has decided Net Neutrality is the tool of the devil. Thank god that we have a functioning techsphere, which serves as a factual counterpoint to nonsense and propaganda. The lack of any such objective source in the political blogsphere is basically the reason that I started geekblogging. Still, sometimes, the political stoopid finds [...]

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a perplexing paucity of PHP programmers

August 27, 2009

My friend Abbas Ali, who is one of the lead programmers for the open-source Coppermine gallery project, writes with mild frustration about the seeming shortage of talented PHP programmers in India. He cites a number of reasons, one of which is a lack of good trainers: Unfortunately in India you need a trainer for learning [...]

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AHP Sitewide Recent Posts plugin for WordPress MU

September 17, 2008

Building on the venerable Recent Posts plugin by Ron and Andrea, I have created an extended version that offers a lot more user control over output, including gravatar support. The basic features are: excludes posts on main blog (blog ID = 1) excludes first posts (Hello, world) on user blogs (post ID = 1) option [...]

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blogging for dollars

March 19, 2008

Michael Arrington advises bloggers to turn down venture capital buyouts of their blogs. I don’t think hi advice – sound as it may be for the bloggers at his level – really has any bearing on blogs in the long tail, which is of course where most blogs (and Techcrunch readers) are. While I don’t [...]

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WiFi and WiMax

March 18, 2008

At RWW, they ask whether WiFi will someday go away. I think that WiFi is in no danger of going away, but the ubiquitous web access is already on our doorstep and it’s called WiMax (everyone, chant with me: Xohm. Xohm. Xohm.) The future of web access will be 802.11n in the home and office [...]

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why did MT lose and WP win?

March 13, 2008

ma.tt responds to Anil Dash by pointing out that WordPress is fully open source: WordPress is 100% open source, GPL. All plugins in the official directory are GPL or compatible, 100% open source. bbPress is 100% GPL. WordPress MU is 100% open source, GPL, and if you wanted you could take it and build your [...]

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TechCrunch (hearts) Valleywag

March 3, 2008

Does Mike Arrington have a stake in Valleywag? At TechCrunch, Arrington issues a dire warning that Valleywag (a Silicon Valley gossip rag) will drive someone to suicide soon enough: Today I read all the sordid details about the alleged sexual encounter between a notable technology visionary and a woman who appears to be looking for [...]

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