There’s a moment in the Snag Films’ documentary “Africa Unite” where Ziggy Marley is talking about his father Bob’s efforts when Zimbabwe was freed.  Ziggy talks about a father listening to his son’s pleas, and they showed footage of a 9 year old Ziggy dancing on stage at the Zimbabwe liberated concert.  Classic footage.  Lots [...]

I’ve been finalizing my book “How to build the Open Mesh” and I wanted to post the four Appendices that conclude the book.
Here they are:

Appendix - A =
“What does Google’s Open Mesh look like?”
Most of the infrastructure, services and applications that Google offers work all by themselves and are not dependent upon anything else.  [...]

I’m finalizing my book “How to build the Open Mesh” and Mary Hodder suggested that I add some Appendices on how various BigCos are building THEIR versions of the open mesh.  The full title of this Appendix is “Aren’t Facebook and MySpace really Closed Meshes and how can we connect to them?”
So here is Appendix [...]

I’m finalizing my book “How to build the Open Mesh” and Mary Hodder suggested that I add some Appendices on how various BigCos are building THEIR versions of the open mesh.  The full title of this Appendix is “Will Microsoft connect their Live Mesh to our Open Mesh and what about the rest of Microsoft?”
So [...]

I’m finalizing my book “How to build the Open Mesh” and Mary Hodder suggested that I add some Appendices on how various BigCos are building THEIR versions of the open mesh.
So here is Appendix - B.
Yahoo probably has the most comprehensive, well architected approach towards building their own open mesh.  They’ve left lots of room [...]

I’m finalizing my book “How to build the Open Mesh” and Mary Hodder suggested that I add some Appendices on how various BigCos are building THEIR versions of the open mesh.
So here is Appendix - A.
Most of the infrastructure, services and applications that Google offers work all by themselves and are not dependent upon anything [...]

We spent time at Lopez Lake - where I caught this hawk.

Does the blog get social or do we blog inside our social networks? Or both?  That is certainly the question.  each to his/her own I guess.  Wordpress buying BuddyPress and SixApart expanding Moveable Type’s social features - combined with the DiSO project - is [...]

Les get the important stuff out of the way:
Who cares about PR firms?  The PR firms themselves and the people who have to listen to them. Not me.
Blue screen of death makes an appearance at the Olympics
Facebook Friend Connect is starting to appear
I went to the MySpace Lunch today, meet some peeps, talked about [...]

Lifestreaming - blogging - feh! Who cares what it’s called.  Chav funn, dat’s vat I say……. chav fun boobble-uhs, chav fun.
Tag Clouds R.I.P. I completely disagree with Rob Cottingham here.  Paolo’s Nova100 site has an excellent two-level tag cloud. Tagging is a ball which our industry collectively dropped.  Technorati and delicious made great strides early [...]

Around here - when it’s summer time - I BBQ basically everyday.
Sometimes it’s sausages, dogs and peppers.
Sometimes it’s Ribs and Scallops (like last night’s open mesh BBQ#5)
But I captured a nice shot of one of my lunches.
This is what I call “living”.

FYI those are Oyster mushrooms for those of you who don’t recognize them.