March 2008
19 posts
Is OpenID Being Exploited By The Big Internet Companies? →
techcrunch.com
Good post from Arrington about OpenID today. Big services are only paying lip service by being “Issuing Parties” only. Everyone needs to step up to full implementation in order for OpenID to really happen.
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“Back when I was teaching fiction writing, I used to pitch my students, especially the beginners, on complexity. They seemed to think that readers would be attracted to their characters’ virtue and would recognize shared humanity in their strength and courage; I argued — perversely they thought — that unrelenting virtue is not just unrealistic but uninteresting.”
—A Novel Take on an Ending - washingtonpost.com. A insightful observation from one of the great authors of our time. He goes on to imagine a novel on Spitzer.
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The number of major new rail and bus projects on track for federal funding dropped from 48 in 2001 to 17 in 2007, even as transit ridership hit a 50-year high last year and demand for new service is soaring.
William Millar, who heads the American Public Transportation Association, says “[Duvall and DOT] just see no role for transit,” Millar said.
Duvall, 35, is a fourth-generation Washingtonian whose father is a well-connected lawyer. He had no transportation experience when he was plucked from his job handling corporate mergers and acquisitions at Hogan & Hartson and was offered a political appointment at the DOT in 2002. “It was a friend of a friend of a friend sort of thing,” he said. Within four years, he was setting national policy [on transportation infrastructure].
” —Letting the Market Drive Transportation - washingtonpost.com. WTF?? We’ve got to realize that how government works now is crazy.
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Bebo Founders Talk History Of Network And Past Web Efforts →
mashable.com
good article on the Bebo founders, their big win, and the persistence they had powering through multiple failures before their triumph.
WordPress Making Its Social Networking Move? →
gigaom.com
Very, very big move. Facebook, et al better take notice, as Wordpress has millions and millions of highly active users. This should force dataportability along …
Hollywood, Silicon Valley and AT&T? It’s a Deal - New York Times →
nytimes.com
further evidence of the convergence of Hollywood, VC & Technology … in Los Angeles
A Defining Moment - New York Times →
nytimes.com
a great article framing the central dynaimic in the Obama-Clinton contest
The $3,000,000,000,000 War is a Domestic Issue →
huffingtonpost.com
A great post on how the war is a domestic as well as foreign policy issue, particularly in how its costs have had a huge impact on our (suffering) economy. Among other stats it notes how the cost would have underwritten social security for the next 50 years.
How RockYou’s New MySpace App Spammed All of My Friends →
mashable.com
good to see these tactics being exposed
