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)

PalmOS device that succeeded in Crossing The Chasm

PalmOS device that was nice and shiny

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

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

Personal Information Manager (more)

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

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

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

aka Trans Pacific Partnership (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)

creator of VRML (more)

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

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

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

Issue Tracker webapp designed by Ka Ping Yee. (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.

Movie Review-aggregation site. (more)