I received an email on July 29 from a guy that works at Wavemarket, Inc., a company that does location-based services for cell phones. They are using libmygis and made a few changes to it, which they sent me a patch for. It’s now August 2, and I’ve already reviewed, modified, and committed their changes, and made a new release.
Open Source Works! It feels good. :)
I have been thinking for quite some time about Bloggers vs. Traditional Media. People give bloggers a lot of flak for having typos, bad grammar, and unchecked facts in their blogs. I agree that it’s true, they have exactly that. Where I disagree though is the silent argument that traditional media doesn’t have that.
It’s becoming more and more prevalent, with the popularity of essentially news aggregators like Google News, that traditional media companies are struggling to be the first to break the news. In their struggle to be the first, it seems they are, more and more, skipping any real copy-editing steps. I constantly see CBS News, BBC, Fox, and even AP wire stories, with typos, grammatical errors, factually incorrect information, etc. in them.
What’s the point, then, of traditional media? They’re becoming a blog themselves. At least real bloggers get to share their real opinion (for better or worse) instead of being the same old media machine.
Brandi Carlile came to Yahoo! for one of our Thursday “Music on the Green” concerts (live bands outside the cafeteria at lunchtime). She’s really quite good! I bought her self-titled CD, which both Adrienne and I really like (that’s pretty rare).
It’s excellent music, so go buy the CD!
In our all-hands today, Terry Semel (CEO of Yahoo!) used the word “fucking” as in “fucking great” to describe Q2. Awesome.
It seems to be a California thing. I’ve never seen it happen so frequently anywhere else. I remember after first moving here, I wondered how it was that shopping carts get distributed all over town, so far from the stores. I figured it must have been homeless people… you often see homeless people with carts full of cans, bottles, etc.
Lately, however, I’ve noticed that what appear to be normal, sane people apparently walking to the store, buying more than they can carry, and taking the cart home with them. What .. the .. hell?
No, of course, they do not return them. I suspect that’s where the homeless people get them, not from the store, but from in front of people’s houses and apartments, where they left them. Maybe these people think there’s a cart pickup service? After all, when they leave the carts outside their front door, they disappear.
People are stupid.
Jeremy Cole 