Posted on March 7th, 2010, by Stu
If you’re reading this via Google Buzz then this post was brought to you by Wordpress, Identi.ca, Twitter and Google. That’s either impressive or horrifying…
Social Media tools suck
On the one hand, it’s kind of nice that interoperation is possible at all, but on the other it’s a silly chain with many unnecessary points of fail. [...]
Tags: Camp KDE, community, Free Culture, promotion, rant, suckage, web technology
Posted on February 9th, 2010, by Stu
Lots of KDE goodness for everyone
As if the new look KDE website wasn’t enough Software Compilation 4.4 is out too.
There are plenty of goodies in this new release (see the feature guide for a more complete run down). However, one of the most exciting new features is the Plasma Netbook workspace. Almost makes me [...]
Tags: community, Plasma Desktop, Plasma Netbook, releases, web technology, wow factor
Posted on November 1st, 2009, by Stu
I really need to start believing the the power of free communities. I remember hearing about Wikipedia shortly after it started (the English version was at the few thousand articles mark) and thinking that it was a nice idea but would never really take off and compete with traditional encyclopaedias. Yeah, so I was wrong [...]
Tags: Free Culture, web technology