Dave Winer tries not to buy into the Pig Pile of noise around Silicon Valley or Journalism or politics. Slicon Valley is all about feeding at the trough and next-to-nothing about the idealism that many of us felt about the technology. The pigs always push aside the idealists, because they're willing to do the things the others won't do. And like the Republicans in Washington, unfortunately, that's a winning strategy, at least short term. I tried to solve the problem by leaving Silicon Valley, and writing software I believe in, and doing the best I can. For me it's never been primarily about money. I like money, up to a point -- but I'm really in it for the wonderful things you can do with the tech. It's an end in itself, not a means to an end. Kara does the best she can to deal with the trough-feeding-frenzy, but she must have to do a fair amount of it to be competitive in the business she's in. (more)

M And A/Buy-Out purchase of a Start Up primarily for its Talent, not for its product or customer-base. (more)

PalmOS device that succeeded in Crossing The Chasm

Paper NoteBook/PIM system inspired by Ben Franklin's notebook.

PalmOS device that was nice and shiny

aka Trans Pacific Partnership (more)

The effects of social influence can be seen in the tendency of large groups to conform to choices which may be either correct or mistaken, a phenomenon sometimes referred to as herd behavior. Although social proof reflects a rational motive to take into account the information possessed by others, formal analysis shows that it can cause people to converge too quickly upon a single choice, so that decisions of even large groups of individuals may be grounded in very little information. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Social_proof

This WikiLog became un-hostable in my old Zwiki system. So I spent some time forking MoinMoin. And scraping, etc. (more)

Personal Information Manager (more)

Craig Mod on hacking the Book Cover (EBook). So how do you combat this lack of control? You design for total flexibility. (more)

The Office of the UnitedStates Trade Representative (USTR) is the United States government agency responsible for developing and recommending United States trade policy to the president of the United States, conducting trade negotiations at bilateral and multilateral levels, and coordinating trade policy within the government through the interagency Trade Policy Staff Committee (TPSC) and Trade Policy Review Group (TPRG). http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Office_of_the_United_States_Trade_Representative (more)

an Austrian School economist of the Anarcho Capitalist tradition, and an economics professor at the University of Nevada, Las Vegas (more)

Llewellyn Harrison "Lew" Rockwell, Jr. (born July 1, 1944) is an American Libertarian author and editor, self-professed Anarcho Capitalist,[1] a promoter of the Austrian School of economics, and founder and chairman of the Ludwig Von Mises Institute. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lew_Rockwell (more)

NYC Venture Capitalist-s and Angel Investor-s (more)

creator of VRML (more)

Aug'2011: Two start-ups in gamification of health have merged to create Habit Labs and achieved an early round of funding. Buster Benson, creator of HealthMonth, 43 Things, and Locavore, has teamed up with Jen Mc Cabe, founder of Y-Combinator backed health startup, Contagion, to get Habit Labs up and running. (more)

Issue Tracker webapp designed by Ka Ping Yee. (more)

Buster Benson ponders “What’s the best way to be healthy?” (re HealthMonth) (more)

Sacha Chua on how she uses a Mole Skin NoteBook for daily notes. I try to do this with my Sharp Zaurus Private Wiki, but it's definitely a pain. On the other hand, I can't read my own HandWriting, esp if I'm doing it in little notebooks.

*In the United States and Canada, a townhouse has two connotations.[citation needed] The older predates the automobile and denotes a house on a small footprint[clarification needed] in a city (Urban), but due to having multiple floors (sometimes six or more) it has a large living space, often with servant's quarters. It is a two or three floor single-family residence. The small footprint of the townhouse allows it to be within walking or mass transit distance of business and industrial areas of the city, yet luxurious enough for wealthy residents of the city. In areas so densely built that detached Single Family Home-s are uncommon or almost nonexistent, ownership of a townhouse connotes wealth. Some examples of cities where townhouses are occupied almost exclusively by the wealthy are New York, Chicago, Boston, Philadelphia, Toronto, and San Francisco. (more)