Archives for October, 2005
Comparing Two Things: Still Patented After All These Years
Monday, October 24th, 2005
Yesterday I pointed out a little blast from the past: the origins of the term “asspatent,” in this September 2004 post. While you should, of course, read that post in its amusing entirety, the business end was an imagined dialogue between Lawyer and Boss at Commtouch: a “vendor of email technology, messaging applications, [...]
Calling an Asspatent an Asspatent
Saturday, October 22nd, 2005
It was nice when Colin O’Malley noted the importance of the term “asspatent.” I was pleased to see that someone else understood how important (and fun) it was to be able to simply call an asspatent an asspatent, rather than having to go with a duller term like “patent of questionable validity.” I’ve [...]
Thoughts on California
Saturday, October 15th, 2005
Been bouncing around California this week, hence the light (nonexistent) posting. A few days in Carmel (Mona’s grandparents), a few days in a cabin in the redwoods (peace and quiet), and now a couple in San Francisco (quick check-in with some friends).
1. Holy crap, every time we’re there I’m struck by how beautiful Carmel [...]
TechCrunch Blogs Attention Trust Recorder. Attention Trust Doesn’t?
Wednesday, October 5th, 2005
Seems a little odd to me that I’m hearing about the Attention Trust Recorder via techcrunch, rather than the AttentionTrust blog.
Given who’s involved with AttentionTrust, I would’ve expected more active communication from the organization. On the other hand, reading down that Board of Directors you see a lot of names have have had a [...]
Explicitly Social Software: ning.com gets some attention
Tuesday, October 4th, 2005
People seem to be paying a little bit of attention to 24 Hour Laundry’s release of ning.com.
Hmmm…identity is one of the big questions for Explicitly Social Software: having discrete identities and data sets associated with different ESS is a pain, and I haven’t yet seen any really effective ways to address the issue. [...]
Our Secret Masters: McDonald’s vs. Starbucks
Sunday, October 2nd, 2005
Mona, Gwen, and I drove up to Amherst, MA this weekend for a visit with Mona’s mom. With this comes our road trip tradition: mmmmmmm, mmmmm fast food. I grew up in New York City in the 70s, and neither cars nor fast food made much of an impact on my life, [...]
