http://nsyght.com/rss/users/bmann Nsyght is a search engine powered by you, your bookmarks,and your friends. en-us 50 Trends for Drupal jobs on oDesk -- this is one of the places to look at relative popularity of frameworks / skills.<br />Submited by bmann 22, November 2008 Sat, 22 Nov 2008 09:03:57 GMT http://www.odesk.com/trends/Drupal http://www.odesk.com/trends/Drupal Open source project management -- does Basecamp import<br />Submited by bmann 22, November 2008 Sat, 22 Nov 2008 09:03:57 GMT http://collabtive.o-dyn.de http://collabtive.o-dyn.de Don't ask. It was a long night, Maura is awesome. Danny .... meh ...<br />Submited by bmann 22, November 2008 Sat, 22 Nov 2008 09:03:57 GMT http://gallery.me.com/dannyrobinson#100061/P1010860&bgcolor=black http://gallery.me.com/dannyrobinson#100061/P1010860&bgcolor=black My user profile on oDesk.<br />Submited by bmann 22, November 2008 Sat, 22 Nov 2008 09:03:57 GMT http://www.odesk.com/users/Drupal-Architect-and-Consultant_~~2678034135da2fcb http://www.odesk.com/users/Drupal-Architect-and-Consultant_~~2678034135da2fcb 3Tera is starting to get press<br />Submited by bmann 22, November 2008 Sat, 22 Nov 2008 09:03:56 GMT http://www.readwriteweb.com/archives/3tera_utility_computing.php http://www.readwriteweb.com/archives/3tera_utility_computing.php Narayan's write up on MySQL replication<br />Submited by bmann 22, November 2008 Sat, 22 Nov 2008 09:03:56 GMT http://tag1consulting.com/node/35 http://tag1consulting.com/node/35 mmm....CalDAV. Standards based syncing. And, theoretically, CalDAV supports file attachments, too (or is that only the Apple server?). Anyway, first release is only supporting iCal as a client. And I think my setup is still too complex, so I'll need to stick with Spanning Sync.<br />Submited by BaldTechnologist 22, November 2008 Sat, 22 Nov 2008 09:03:56 GMT http://www.google.com/support/calendar/bin/answer.py?answer=99358 http://www.google.com/support/calendar/bin/answer.py?answer=99358 "The greatest gift of open source isn’t the right to fork, but the ability to merge" -- money quote from Lloyd on how he thinks Google's Chrome is going to fit into the web browser landscape.<br />Submited by bmann 22, November 2008 Sat, 22 Nov 2008 09:03:56 GMT http://foolswisdom.com/google-chromes-greatest-challenge-open-source-development-and-support-of-a-consumer-desktop-product http://foolswisdom.com/google-chromes-greatest-challenge-open-source-development-and-support-of-a-consumer-desktop-product We need more packages / distributions, and we need full support for automatic tarballs on Drupal.org before we can promote them properly.<br />Submited by bmann 22, November 2008 Sat, 22 Nov 2008 09:03:56 GMT http://mostrey.be/keeping-it-simple-installation-profiles http://mostrey.be/keeping-it-simple-installation-profiles AdHack is a Canada Top 50 Finalist! Woot, nice work, James....<br />Submited by bmann 22, November 2008 Sat, 22 Nov 2008 09:03:56 GMT http://blog.adhack.com/2008/08/26/adhack-selected-canada-top-50-finalist-red-herring http://blog.adhack.com/2008/08/26/adhack-selected-canada-top-50-finalist-red-herring Engineers vs. designers, and how there needs to be no vs. in the middle of that. File under product management, and interview questions for both engineers and designers.<br />Submited by bmann 22, November 2008 Sat, 22 Nov 2008 09:03:56 GMT http://www.bigcontrarian.com/2008/08/12/the-great-divide http://www.bigcontrarian.com/2008/08/12/the-great-divide Individuated == an end to one size fits all newspapers -- both in print and online. This is a very long article, but a must read -- it posits that we are in the first third of a ~45 year sea change, where we cannot yet see what is to come with regards to information production AND consumption online. Many excellent quotes, here's one that points out how long we've been in the current newspaper model: "Publishers and editors forget that their editorial practices are based upon the limitation of technologies that were invented when horses were the only form of transportation on our streets."<br />Submited by bmann 22, November 2008 Sat, 22 Nov 2008 09:03:56 GMT http://www.digitaldeliverance.com/blog/2008/06/second_annual_global_conferenc_1.html http://www.digitaldeliverance.com/blog/2008/06/second_annual_global_conferenc_1.html A great list of some Australian Shiraz to try. I added a cheap one and an expensive one to my Corkd.com journal<br />Submited by bmann 22, November 2008 Sat, 22 Nov 2008 09:03:56 GMT http://www.straight.com/article-158368/viognier-tames-brash-shiraz-pizzazz http://www.straight.com/article-158368/viognier-tames-brash-shiraz-pizzazz Nortel doing incubation (sort of?) and doing a second life style group meeting thingie. I know that Cisco is doing sort of stuff like this as well. My friend Dave had something to do with it, I believe.<br />Submited by bmann 22, November 2008 Sat, 22 Nov 2008 09:03:56 GMT http://www.projectchainsaw.com/blog http://www.projectchainsaw.com/blog Trademarking the term Hyperlocal?!! Oh, right, I forgot ... Web 2.0 is TM as well.... OK, I guess I'll start saying localhyper<br />Submited by bmann 22, November 2008 Sat, 22 Nov 2008 09:03:56 GMT http://blog.searchenginewatch.com/blog/080818-105006 http://blog.searchenginewatch.com/blog/080818-105006 Ken Rickard's domain access module -- a single shared database hosting many different domains / subdomains / etc., with delegated access and publishing across sites.<br />Submited by millette 22, November 2008 Sat, 22 Nov 2008 09:03:56 GMT http://drupal.org/project/domain http://drupal.org/project/domain Jordan's wife Alex is at home with their new baby, and starting a new business. I did some brainstorming and helped come up with the name. This is going to be a fun little project to keep an eye on, and maybe help out with some Google links.<br />Submited by bmann 22, November 2008 Sat, 22 Nov 2008 09:03:56 GMT http://yeddiebaby.com http://yeddiebaby.com I think investing in broadband infrastructure everywhere is one of the smartest things Canada can do to compete. Ref: South Korea, Singapore ...<br />Submited by bmann 22, November 2008 Sat, 22 Nov 2008 09:03:56 GMT http://free-fiber-to-the-home.blogspot.com http://free-fiber-to-the-home.blogspot.com These are "specific" to a mobile / cell launch event, but many of them are good practice for anyone doing blogger launch type marketing and outreach.<br />Submited by bmann 22, November 2008 Sat, 22 Nov 2008 09:03:56 GMT http://www.smstextnews.com/2008/10/11_things_you_need_to_consider_when_doing_a_blogger_relations_event.html http://www.smstextnews.com/2008/10/11_things_you_need_to_consider_when_doing_a_blogger_relations_event.html An interesting model for sustainable open source development, tied also to universities. A lot of the best thinking is coming from emerging countries -- South America, Eastern Europe, etc. -- "In other words, this proposal exploits the long tail to help finance and sustain an ecosystem of information management services through an open and transparent process."<br />Submited by bmann 22, November 2008 Sat, 22 Nov 2008 09:03:56 GMT http://groups.drupal.org/node/14943 http://groups.drupal.org/node/14943 Saw this via the Sitemasher guys. Why, for the love of dog, must this thing be built in Flash?!?!<br />Submited by bmann 22, November 2008 Sat, 22 Nov 2008 09:03:56 GMT http://www.designcanchange.org/#home http://www.designcanchange.org/#home "So if you want to improve your chances, you should think far more about who you can recruit as a cofounder than the state of the economy." -- we have so many "cofounder match maker" requests that I'm seriously thinking about some technology to help with this....<br />Submited by mdrechsler 22, November 2008 Sat, 22 Nov 2008 09:03:56 GMT http://www.paulgraham.com/badeconomy.html http://www.paulgraham.com/badeconomy.html I haven't read a "what is blogging" post in a long time -- this is very good: "Blogging is therefore to writing what extreme sports are to athletics: more free-form, more accident-prone, less formal, more alive. It is, in many ways, writing out loud."<br />Submited by mdrechsler 22, November 2008 Sat, 22 Nov 2008 09:03:56 GMT http://www.theatlantic.com/doc/200811/andrew-sullivan-why-i-blog http://www.theatlantic.com/doc/200811/andrew-sullivan-why-i-blog Great follow on from Mark on how cloud computing / VMs change things for sysadmins, too -- or rather, that they HAVE to change<br />Submited by bmann 22, November 2008 Sat, 22 Nov 2008 09:03:56 GMT http://www.vmunix.com/mark/blog/archives/2008/10/17/cloud-computing-is-a-sea-change-how-sysadmins-can-prepare http://www.vmunix.com/mark/blog/archives/2008/10/17/cloud-computing-is-a-sea-change-how-sysadmins-can-prepare We're using GetSatisfaction, but the pure feature voting of UserVoice is really great. Clarity Accounting uses it.<br />Submited by drburix02 22, November 2008 Sat, 22 Nov 2008 09:03:56 GMT http://uservoice.com http://uservoice.com Dries' view on semantic web and Drupal.<br />Submited by bmann 22, November 2008 Sat, 22 Nov 2008 09:03:56 GMT http://buytaert.net/drupal-the-semantic-web-and-search http://buytaert.net/drupal-the-semantic-web-and-search Fodder for my presentation -- how is RDFa relevant for practical day to day web work?<br />Submited by bmann 22, November 2008 Sat, 22 Nov 2008 09:03:56 GMT http://www.sitepoint.com/blogs/2008/10/16/rdfa-is-now-a-w3c-recommendation http://www.sitepoint.com/blogs/2008/10/16/rdfa-is-now-a-w3c-recommendation I first tried to cut a deal with pMachine back in 2002 with a shared hosting provider. It is becoming clear that "hosting" -- especially shared hosting -- is really not something that people want to pay for: they are interested in paying for actual applications. Hosting Connection is the GoDaddy installer for apps.<br />Submited by bmann 22, November 2008 Sat, 22 Nov 2008 09:03:56 GMT http://hosted-communications.tmcnet.com/topics/broadband-comm/articles/43820-go-daddy-offers-hosting-connection-making-online-setup.htm http://hosted-communications.tmcnet.com/topics/broadband-comm/articles/43820-go-daddy-offers-hosting-connection-making-online-setup.htm via Francis Pilon, some of the issues with the Semantic Web, for potential use in my 2009 DrupalCon DC talk.<br />Submited by bmann 22, November 2008 Sat, 22 Nov 2008 09:03:56 GMT http://www.ftrain.com/a-semantic-web-fear.html http://www.ftrain.com/a-semantic-web-fear.html Theoretically reading this could make me get KB The Legend to run under CrossOver Games for the Mac (which is a free download today). Except, it doesn't work, and so it's going to be easier to just boot into BootCamp (or get a faster Mac to run Parallels on....)<br />Submited by bmann 22, November 2008 Sat, 22 Nov 2008 09:03:56 GMT http://appdb.winehq.org/objectManager.php?sClass=version&iId=11999 http://appdb.winehq.org/objectManager.php?sClass=version&iId=11999 Edelman gives a talk and says that traditional PR is dead / dying. I kind of wonder what current PR professionals are going to be doing in 5 years time. How many will adapt? Oh, and if someone says "social media consultant" ... I'm going to scream...<br />Submited by bmann 22, November 2008 Sat, 22 Nov 2008 09:03:56 GMT http://www.livingstonbuzz.com/2008/10/31/richard-edelman-gets-his-cluetrain-on http://www.livingstonbuzz.com/2008/10/31/richard-edelman-gets-his-cluetrain-on An Expression Engine vs. Textpattern comparison -- from the comments, "If Drupal and TXP had a baby, it would be great."<br />Submited by bmann 22, November 2008 Sat, 22 Nov 2008 09:03:55 GMT http://www.hicksdesign.co.uk/journal/expression-engine-vs-textpattern http://www.hicksdesign.co.uk/journal/expression-engine-vs-textpattern dscl is the commandline tool for working with users and groups on os x<br />Submited by bmann 22, November 2008 Sat, 22 Nov 2008 09:03:55 GMT http://osxdaily.com/2007/10/29/how-to-add-a-user-from-the-os-x-command-line-works-with-leopard http://osxdaily.com/2007/10/29/how-to-add-a-user-from-the-os-x-command-line-works-with-leopard A seemingly simple and easy to use email blast module -- except that sending email directly from a site is always hard<br />Submited by bmann 22, November 2008 Sat, 22 Nov 2008 09:03:55 GMT http://drupal.org/project/mailout http://drupal.org/project/mailout A long post on what Critical Mass is and isn't -- or at least one person's view. I participated in my first one at the end of June 2008 and really enjoyed it.<br />Submited by bmann 22, November 2008 Sat, 22 Nov 2008 09:03:55 GMT http://adam.rosi-kessel.org/weblog/2003/04/17/essay_wrong_critical_mass http://adam.rosi-kessel.org/weblog/2003/04/17/essay_wrong_critical_mass A similar list as my recent post to Bootup Labs on tools for startups. Virtually all are US-specific, would be good to go through and find Canadian equivalents. Really should stick a BUL wiki up somewhere to facilitate stuff like this? or reddit clone? or<br />Submited by bmann 22, November 2008 Sat, 22 Nov 2008 09:03:55 GMT http://gigaom.com/2008/07/19/15-sites-to-cut-your-startup-operating-costs http://gigaom.com/2008/07/19/15-sites-to-cut-your-startup-operating-costs An excellent 20-20 hindsight post mortem of Monitor110, a startup. Even more interesting to me with it's PubSub.com connection. Phrases like "science project vs. business" ring true as well<br />Submited by bmann 22, November 2008 Sat, 22 Nov 2008 09:03:55 GMT http://www.informationarbitrage.com/2008/07/monitor110-a-po.html http://www.informationarbitrage.com/2008/07/monitor110-a-po.html "the further along we go the more tightly knit the internet becomes, and that means that theres opportunity for programmable white label services to propel us further and faster."<br />Submited by bmann 22, November 2008 Sat, 22 Nov 2008 09:03:55 GMT http://trevoro.ca/blog/2008/07/15/function-as-a-service http://trevoro.ca/blog/2008/07/15/function-as-a-service Submited by bmann 22, November 2008 Sat, 22 Nov 2008 09:03:55 GMT http://drupal.org/project/reroute_email http://drupal.org/project/reroute_email Very interesting hearing Jim Shaw's thoughts -- questions like "will you have iPhone?" are answered by "no, we won't carry high end". Another carrier that thinks they are in the handset business!!!<br />Submited by bmann 22, November 2008 Sat, 22 Nov 2008 09:03:55 GMT http://watch.bnn.ca/clip65878#clip65878 http://watch.bnn.ca/clip65878#clip65878 The Current is a radio station. This is its Twitter account. It Twitters each song that plays ... that's pretty cool...<br />Submited by bmann 22, November 2008 Sat, 22 Nov 2008 09:03:55 GMT http://twitter.com/TheCurrent http://twitter.com/TheCurrent Psst...don't tell James that I bookmarked this possible list of future crabbing spots...<br />Submited by bmann 22, November 2008 Sat, 22 Nov 2008 09:03:55 GMT http://www.shorediving.com/Earth/Canada http://www.shorediving.com/Earth/Canada This web site is designed for programmers and users of Microsoft Office and in particular Microsoft Access. It is edited by Garry Robinson.<br />Submited by bmann 22, November 2008 Sat, 22 Nov 2008 09:03:55 GMT http://www.vb123.com/basecamp http://www.vb123.com/basecamp More new good music -- $4 for a 6 song disc on iTunes Plus.<br />Submited by bmann 22, November 2008 Sat, 22 Nov 2008 09:03:55 GMT http://www.rarariot.com/news.php http://www.rarariot.com/news.php This is an awesome Toronto-based band that I found via Hypemachine -- yes, it's on MySpace, but click through and listen to Land of Giants and Circles and Blocks. Excellent!<br />Submited by bmann 22, November 2008 Sat, 22 Nov 2008 09:03:55 GMT http://www.myspace.com/hoodedfang http://www.myspace.com/hoodedfang Submited by bmann 22, November 2008 Sat, 22 Nov 2008 09:03:55 GMT http://krow.livejournal.com/602409.html http://krow.livejournal.com/602409.html The Canadian government just made $4.2B dollars selling unused wireless spectrum -- what is the Canadian public going to get out of that? Rural broadband? Internet infrastructure investment? Or ???<br />Submited by bmann 22, November 2008 Sat, 22 Nov 2008 09:03:55 GMT http://mobscure.com/smith/42b-for-new-spectrum-so-now-what http://mobscure.com/smith/42b-for-new-spectrum-so-now-what Trevor does an excellent job of explaining briefly what DNS is / does, as well as explaining what Rogers is doing by "hijacking" it.<br />Submited by bmann 22, November 2008 Sat, 22 Nov 2008 09:03:55 GMT http://trevoro.ca/blog/2008/07/21/rogers-dns-hijacking-a-summary-so-far http://trevoro.ca/blog/2008/07/21/rogers-dns-hijacking-a-summary-so-far Union Square Ventures has invested in 10gen -- who are building a whole appserver platform: basically an entire abstraction for cloud computing, hosting companies and others as clients.<br />Submited by bmann 22, November 2008 Sat, 22 Nov 2008 09:03:55 GMT http://www.unionsquareventures.com/2008/07/10gen.html http://www.unionsquareventures.com/2008/07/10gen.html Submited by bmann 22, November 2008 Sat, 22 Nov 2008 09:03:55 GMT https://bugzilla.flock.com/buglist.cgi?query_format=specific&order=relevance+desc&bug_status=__open__&product=&content=del.icio.us https://bugzilla.flock.com/buglist.cgi?query_format=specific&order=relevance+desc&bug_status=__open__&product=&content=del.icio.us