Month: April 2011
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Some things to consider if you’re deciding whether to be a tech entrepreneur
I was taken by Status.net founder Evan Promodou’s post the other day: Hackers make things; entrepreneurs make things that make things. This is a pretty succinct explanation of the difference between an entrepreneur and a hacker, and, I must confess, not one I fully understood when we originally set out to build Elgg. (It was […]
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Going Mac
Last week, I said goodbye to decades of tradition and became a Mac user. It’s a more emotional decision than you might think. It’s just a tool, right? You should pick the product that is going to do the job for you best. But in tech circles there’s something emotive and tribal about it; mention […]
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Separating form from content: when is a book a book?
For what it’s worth, this blog is now available over on the Kindle Store for the Amazon-imposed price of $1.99 a month. Of course, if you do decide to read it on your Kindle, you’re going to lose the standard form of a blog: the distinctive page shell, the list of posts, and probably the […]
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April Fool’s jokes I considered posting today
I’m starting a funding incubator for open source projects. We’re working with a number of high-profile Silicon Valley investors in order to provide comprehensive funding, as well as advice and collaborative office space, for up to 50 open source projects a year. The Libre Fund provides that most valuable return: openness. I’m forking Elgg. Continuing […]