It’s early Monday: I’m editing outlines with RU and gearing up for some presentations later this week.
Some Groove messages from the weekend are getting through – I haven’t been online for a while, but will be later tonight. It’s still hard to accept invitations, though. Don’t know why yet, but only those sent via mail have worked.
Here is a story about a publisher who should have thought harder:
Treaure trove looted. Setting yourself up for a boycott in a niche market consisting of students and highly educated professionals is stupid and bad for business.
Scripting News links to two moody articles: Mood radio and PullThePlug.com. To me there is a common theme: some people try to make new things, while others just look for new things to exploit.
Sometimes it’s difficult to keep the right balance between extreme hacker paranoia and couch potato stupidity; greedy people really are conspiring round-the-clock to exploit other’s vulnerability. And it takes a lot of energy to keep aware – but it’s not impossible.
Humans are fragile but very hard to stop from loving and playing.
Got a nice call from my friend Olov, who moved into his new house today – we’ll see if it’s still standing after the French storm gets here 