Check out OpenCongress.org — an exceptionally important site brought to you by the same folks who bring you the very cool Democracy Player.
Sort of like a Wikipedia for US Congress, everything is hyperlinked, cross-referenced & RSSified.
It is a great way of figuring out what’s really happening in Washington, and I think is going to be [...]
Monthly Archives: February 2007
February 26, 2007 – 9:50 am
OpenCongress
February 22, 2007 – 10:17 am
Frances Allen Wins Turing Award
This is an important event – first time a woman has won the Turing Award, the ACM’s award for achievement in computer science. The award has been given since 1966, and many women have contributed in that interval, so it’s about time.
February 22, 2007 – 8:54 am
reconnections
Yesterday was a fun day — between Mozilla & Reactivity, there were dozens of news reports on the web & elsewhere about things that I’m either currently involved in or was involved in not too long ago. Reactivity was always a pretty low profile sort of place — the ethos was to put our heads [...]
February 21, 2007 – 10:15 am
West Coast Wakes Up
We roll a little later in the day here than most — it’s a left coast type of thing. But coverage of Reactivity & Cisco is starting to pick up, like this this incredibly mistitled post about Cisco buying another Web 2.0 firm. Reactivity is most definitely not that.
But anyhoo. One of the things Matt [...]
February 21, 2007 – 6:05 am
Cisco acquires Reactivity
Cisco is announcing today that they’re acquiring Reactivity, a company that I co-founded with Bryan, Brian & Mike just over nine years ago, in January 1998. I’ll have more to say eventually on the subject, but for now, I’m very proud of the team that stuck it through for so long, and very happy to [...]
The Player of Games, by Iain M. Banks
Jul 3, 0:54 › Brian: Use of Weapons is indisputably the best of the series Jun 25, 17:52 › mel s: Hi.. Just randomly surfed by. You seem to be quite