A few nights ago i went to an AIDS benefit organized by my best friend’s other best friend. My nemesis. Just kidding. I happily invited myself along, ponied up my 20bucks, put on a gown and some cowboy boots, and went head-on into somebody else’s community. The event is organized annually by a group that [...]

things i’d like to see on open: “in other news” (links to notable news of the day)
most recently commented on section.
and a little mini post spot. post and spot are almost the same word, so that’s weird.
i’ve been using my Searchfox rss reader (you can get an invite to try it out too if you’re, [...]

I had an eggplant languishing in the pits of my fridgerator that began calling out to my guilt last night, so i went googling for “eggplant recipes”. I was thinking maybe parmasan, but that was a staple in my mum’s house so i wanted to see if i could find something new. I found this [...]

lyrics to the song i made up dancing around my livingroom/office area when i got home this dim and rainy afternoon. there’s also a dance. and a lot of rock guitar mouth noises. it should be sung really fast and loud. c’mon. try it.
all my pretty ladies, coming out to see me (bam bp-phah [...]

stuff we could sell in our open boutique- hand picked by us, in the mail and on it’s way to you within a week of purchase.
-rob’s magnets and comic books
-a few consistent variable pieces
-a few ‘i made it’ pieces’
-g-eunuch issues
-lickety split issues
-worn tshirts and buttons
-sara’s album
-shoot the moon’s ep
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Here I am again facing a painful old question that just seems to be getting bigger: how to operate in relation to problems of different orders of magnitude. I’m struggling these days between a kind of fractured mind, where sometimes I can focus on looking for a good little job and cleaning my apartment, and [...]

There is a room in the network of my memory
a place my nanny built in stories and birthday cards
that is a garden that she tends
where all us grandchildren are.
Her imagination twisted us descendant girls with fairytales
and still we have been lonely
looking for ourselves in her portraits.
What we didn’t see was the whirring camera in [...]

i’ve been keeping this picture
trying to find the place where
it would be happiest, where it would do the most good.
Of all the hundreds of hundredths of seconds
i caught on that day on the way up
to trenton
this one is the best.

get out of my room and leave me alone!
c’mere mr toad- you are the only one who is ever nice to me! ghhha! all i want is the toast cut triangular and no one to talk to me when i get home from brownies and still have my head full of everything that’s been going [...]

the light is getting dim.
the afternoon seemed good,
but now they’re pressing in (against the bricking,)
and taking all the air again.
this apartment looks out over
the whole fragile, breathing thing
and still the ice is record thin (we’re so useless-
taking all the air again.)
the road and everything it needs and bleeds is
in my ears and in my [...]

marjorie wore the tired drawl,
and drunken sexiness,
and harsh quick wit,
that she’d found could draw her to the center of laughing men
and, usually,
keep her safe from them
until the mornings stretched long
and the feeling of missing something
took up too much space in the room
and all the customary jeans and gestures
didn’t fit.
And with the sad shock of having [...]

some places we can juxtapose open source history with the history of other networks:
-the making of the oed
-asquith and torvalds- parliamentary tactics for coming toward agreement
the northcliffe press and microsoft- the danger of monopoly
-conferences, universities (“we are collectively, what’s wrong with the university” Innis to the assembled presidents..)
-and interestingly, in the behavior of networks in [...]

(especially the idol, the rockstar, and the dance competitions, but also oprah and dr.phil)
1. people gradually get used to being on camera, and you get to watch it happen. what really seems to happen is that people on tv figure out who they are in relation to the people present and in relation to that [...]

When we started Open blogs were barely becoming cool. People still laugh at the word sometimes, and then ask shyly what a blog is.
And it seemed as though there was a great deal of writing on the web about napster, the kazaa network, friendster, or blogs, or even email, or instant messaging; lots of writing [...]

So, I’ve been asked to speak for a half an hour at CRIM this thursday at 6pm about Open.touchbasic.com
in relation to open source. I’ve begun sketching out my notes to see what they look like, and to be able to pass them along to Elran so he can help me fill in some more [...]