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How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bot

By Mark Drapeau
July 7, 2009

Web technologies often allow you to scale things that weren't scalable before. Unfortunately, that list of scalable things includes spam. From unsolicited phone calls to unwanted emails to unnecessary tweets, it can seem like we're getting progressively overloaded with information we don't necessarily want. One group blamed for the increase in online spam are Twitter bots - Twitter accounts...

Concept Management

By Eric Larson
January 30, 2009

Distributed version control systems have brought up some pretty important questions. A DVCS adds a good deal of complexity to an already complicated system. Source control is rather sticky business as it not only deals with complex content, but the...

A Climate of Polarization

By Gavin Starks
January 28, 2009

We are entering an new era of seismic change in policy, business, society, technology, finance and our environment, on a scale and speed substantially greater than previous revolutions. More than ever, we need to create space for learning, communication and understanding.

Communication from SD Best Practices 2008

By Andy Oram
October 30, 2008

The biggest theme I kept running into at this year's SD Best Practices conference was the centrality of communicating with users and team members. Scott Ambler and Terry Quatrani presented the results of a survey on modeling tools, and in this blog I draw some conclusions about communication and other themes.

Is Twitter Forcing Us Into 140 Character Writing Hell?

By M. David Peterson
August 14, 2008

Is Twitter's 140 character limit having a negative impact on our society. Or are we simply becoming more efficient in our communication with one another?

Open Question: Do You Use Twitter?

By Mac Slocum
June 27, 2008

Mediabistro recently conducted an informal round-up of publishers and authors who use Twitter to publicize titles and interact with readers. Within TOC, we use Twitter (plug: follow us here)...

Ultra-lightweight Charts For AJAX

By Andrew Trice
March 14, 2008

To continue the theme of using seamless Flash/Flex/AJAX applications, here's a really simple example how you can use Flash and AJAX together seamlessly within your applications. Yes, i said Flash, not Flex. In this example I created an ultra-lightweight ActionScript-only charting project that can be used within AJAX applications.

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