Protocol designed by Phil Zimmermann to secure VoIP. (more)

WebLog variant that favors short-form, mixed-media (Multimedia) posts over the longer editorial posts frequently associated with blogging. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tumblelog (more)

Pat Kane on placing Macro Blogging ("classic" WebLog) and MesoBlogging (TumbleLog? But what happens when what you have to say spills over that long-lost telco engineer's arbitrary text limit? When you have a small story to tell, or a sequence of sound or movement to bear witness to? How do we gently ease out from the limits of 140, yet still retain our spontaneity, our responsiveness to our environment, our thrill of instant publishing?) in a spectrum with MicroBlogging. It seems like he's mixing together a couple things (more)

Fan Fiction (alternatively referred to as fanfiction, FanFic, FF, or fic) is a broadly-defined term for fan labor regarding stories about characters or settings written by fans of the original work, rather than by the original creator. Works of fan fiction are rarely commissioned or authorized by the original work's owner, creator, or publisher; also, they are almost never professionally published. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fan_fiction (more)

aka Fan Fiction

Adrian Holovaty just migrated his Django-based Sound Slice from Heroku to direct-AmazonWebServices. The way we set up Soundslice is relatively simple. We made a custom AMI with our code/dependencies, then set up an Elastic Load Balancer (ELB Load Balancing) with auto-scaling rules that instantiate app servers from that AMI based on load. I also converted the app to use MySQL.

growing something (good or bad) faster than a straight-line model. (more)

Network Attached Storage http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Network-attached_storage (more)

The Honduran (Honduras) government wants to create what amounts to internal start-ups—quasi-independent City State-s that begin with a clean slate and are then overseen by outside experts. They will have their own government, write their own laws, manage their own currency and, eventually, hold their own elections... The Honduran regions are modelled on a concept called “CharterCity-s” developed by Paul Romer, an economics professor at New York University. (more)

Federal Housing Finance Agency (more)

Never got to the cloud->laptop synching of SimpleNote from 2012-10-06-[[SimpleNoteSynchWithPython]]. Just stuck to writing only on the laptop, and pushing changes to cloud which I'd then synch to FlickNote on my Android tablet for reading-only. (more)

I hadn't realized that New Orleans had jumped into the Charter School movement after Hurricane Katrina. On the last state achievement test before Katrina hit, 74 percent of eighth-graders had failed to demonstrate "basic" skills in English/Language Arts, and 70 percent scored below "basic" in math. The Orleans Parish School Board, which ran the city's schools, was $450 million in debt. Yet these numbers did not begin to capture the day-to-day texture of the schools: when students held a press conference to express their post-Katrina wishes, they asked for textbooks, toilet paper, and teachers who liked them... Three months after Katrina, the state legislature deemed 107 of the 128 city-run public schools "failing" and seized control of them for five years. (Before the storm the state had already placed five failing schools in what it called the Recovery School District, then converted them to charter schools.) Stripped of most of its domain and financing, the Orleans Parish School Board fired all 7,500 of its teachers and support staff, effectively breaking the Teachers Union. (more)

paid Software Forge (more)

So The Wife's IPad seems to be having intermittent problems where I Mail stops sending/receiving, both from her corporate Lotus Notes account and GMail. This has happened in the office, here at home, and in hotels. (Brower/etc works fine so it's not a network issue.) (more)

*What they found was the widespread use of sophisticated, off-the-shelf computer espionage software by governments with questionable records on human rights. While the software is supposedly sold for use only in criminal investigations, the two came across evidence that it was being used to target political dissidents. (more)

Jon Ronson profiles various combatants in the War On The Net: Aaron Swartz, Kim Dotcom, Andrew Auernheimer, Mercedes Haefer... Andrew will go to federal prison for 41 months. After that, there will be three years of supervised release. There's a fine, too – $73,000 restitution to be paid to ATT. Afterwards, Andrew's friends point out that on this same day two teenage football stars convicted of drugging and raping a 16-year-old girl in Steubenville, Ohio – videotaping her and urinating on her – are receiving sentences of one and two years.

of a city (more)

WikiGraph Browser build in Touch Graph, which was a Java app, not applet (more)

Alex Shapiro created a Touch Graph Wiki Graph Browser which reads a db of Wiki links to generate a graph view, with the "current" page content on the side. Very cool, though dependent on a link-db that few wiki engines maintain. But imagine using this over a cluster of wikis, with a different color for each one, and the graphs crossing when the same Wiki Name was used in multiple Sister Sites. But not sure how well this would scale visually, even for a single wiki with a large number of pages. (more)

Mathis Heydtmann's [working](http://zeck.floop.org.uk/mathis/Wiki Liver/withNavigator) on a new Zwiki-specific version of the Touch Graph Wiki Graph Browser. With [install](http://zeck.floop.org.uk/mathis/Wiki Liver/Installing Z Wiki Navigator) instructions.