On Food-Truck Economics (more)

Sustainable fish Aquaculture? 2010-10-05-AquaponicsSustainableFish (more)

Zed Shaw has a No No Sql idea that provides a single JSON-based interface to a variety of Data Store-s, both SQL and No[[SQL]]. What I did was combine 0mq (ZeroMQ) with SQLite-3, Tokyo Cabinet, and finally, the File System, to create a server that lets you do all four at once using the 0mq scalability and speed building blocks. In theory this thing should be dead easy to scale out, shard, cluster, whatever you need to do. Right now of course it doesn't but the potential is there. (more)

FaceBook has announced Facebook Messages, their EMail (and lots-other - Social Inbox/Universal Inbox) offering. You decide how you want to talk to your friends: via SMS, chat, email or Messages... You shouldn't have to remember who prefers IM over email or worry about which technology to use. Simply choose their name and type a message... To be clear, Messages is not EMail. There are no subject lines, no cc, no bcc, and you can send a message by hitting the Enter key. We modeled it more closely to Live Chat and reduced the number of things you need to do to send a message. We wanted to make this more like a conversation. (more)

Mozilla provides a case study of evaluating NoSQL options, specifically Cassandra vs HBase via Ri Ak.

(i'll let the interwebs tell you the more literal meaning) (more)

Zed Shaw has released his Tir Web App Framework which combines Mongrel2 and Lua. (His Hype La demo site is aimed at the Starving Artist market.) 2010-11-10-ZedTirMongrel2LuaMicroFramework

HBase is an open source, non-relational (NoSQL), distributed database modeled after Google's BigTable and is written in Java. It is developed as part of Apache Software Foundation's Apache Hadoop project and runs on top of HDFS (Hadoop Distributed Filesystem), providing BigTable-like capabilities for Hadoop. That is, it provides a fault-tolerant way of storing large quantities of sparse data. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HBase

*SLM Corporation (commonly known as Sallie Mae; originally the Student Loan Marketing Association) is a publicly traded U.S.[1] corporation whose operations are originating, servicing, and collecting on Student Loan-s.[2] Managing more than $180.4 billion in debt for more than 10 million borrowers, the company primarily provided federally guaranteed student loans originated under the Federal Family Education Loan Program (FFELP).[3] It now provides private student loans. (more)

Federal department subsidizing Community Service? (more)

Location Based Service created by Dennis Crowley. (more)

Got my new MacBookPro (MBP) - key is to migrate over "everything" from my MacBook.

Giving a pep-talk to some middle-schoolers in Barrington Il today. Uploaded my FreeMind file to MindMeister. here

On of my ongoing issues with hosting my WikiLog at Blue Host comes from having "too many files" - 2012-03-01-BluehostTooManyMoinFiles. (more)

When Evan Williams and a bunch of other Obvious Corp teammates suddenly follow a snazzy, un-launched product called Medium, you know something big’s about to happen. For now, Medium.com is a website that lets you easily drag in or upload a photo and annotate it with overlaid text, but we hear there are bigger ambitions for the product. (Blog Host) (more)

physical Retail location to buy a (print) Newspaper or Magazine (more)

WikiFarm (more)

Systems Thinking World Adventures in Wonderland: Adventures in Wonderland, a set of learning threads of reusable modules created from Insight Maker Models and YouTube Videos, is intended to further understanding of a systemic perspective and promote thinking and acting systemically. (more)

Chris Dent examines Tiddly Space progress over the past year, esp since 2011-04-15-TiddlyPlanning. As we look into another year, we need to make some decisions about how to arrange resources. I think there are three major areas where focus can go. We don't have to choose just one, but we at least need to have some Vision about what we are doing. As always, I vote option3 (user-centered features)! (more)

Saw a T-Shirt today saying "the best way to predict the future is to create it". I thought the line was from Alan Kay, and should say invent instead of create. I think I was right, but there are lots of pages on the web saying create and crediting Peter Drucker! (more)