Author: Ben Werdmuller
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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 […]
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Onflood
Friday night was sleepless for me. I couldn’t stop thinking about a simple idea I had, riffing off of Color and some of the technology I’d built for OutMap: What if you could hook messages, photos, files and metadata to a particular location in space, and create an ad-hoc messageboard with this information based on […]
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How times change
Time Magazine, March 1995: The main gauge of change in information delivery is the boom in sales of modems, which are expected to grow at an average rate of 17.2% worldwide (22.4% in Europe alone) between 1994 and 1998, and the expanding reach of the Internet and such commercial operators as CompuServe. “Sales of CD-ROM […]