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  1. elmcity by jalefkowit · · Score: 1 · on Ask Slashdot: Events Calendar Software For Local Community?

    Jon Udell's elmcity project (FAQ, quickstart guide, source) may be of interest.

  2. elmcity by jalefkowit · · Score: 1 · on Ask Slashdot: Events Calendar Software For Local Community?

    Jon Udell's elmcity project (FAQ, quickstart guide, source) may be of interest.

  3. Jon Udell knows this stuff and helps all who come. by Forget4it · · Score: 1 · on Ask Slashdot: Events Calendar Software For Local Community?

    I redirect you to Jon Udell's blog http://blog.jonudell.net/

  4. Re:Good! by Chrontius · · Score: 1 · on Some Apple iMacs "Assembled In America"

    And, he got it in one. And it's not really all that niche an idea; even TED has presented talks on the subject. And it's not just the US any more; Foxconn is getting in on the action and replacing workers with a million robots. (Incidentally, this may cause the American lead in precision manufacturing to narrow, or vanish entirely)

    But what happens when everyone who is manufacturing anything automates the entire process? Our agricultural system is already hugely centralized and automated. White collar "knowledge work" is on the chopping block next. Why? IBM wants it to happen, and has the ability to make it happen.

    We're also making more and more people; nobody really wants to stop screwing. So we've got more people and less work - how do we allocate enough purchasing power so they can pay for food, medicine, and housing? Two ideas spring to mind: A command economy, which is a terrible idea, and make-work, which is merely bad. Bad because it could either be terrible, or if we get really ambitious, we could make work space exploration, asteroid mining, building orbital elevators and ending our dependence on fossil fuels. So, not necessarily terrible. Except some significant portion of that work is going to be automated.

    I don't know the answer, but at least I can direct your attention to the problem.

  5. Re:Obviously! by maxume · · Score: 1 · on RMS Says "Software As a Service" Is Non-free

    People use it for more than that. Here is an example:

    http://blog.jonudell.net/2009/02/26/collaborative-curation-as-a-service/

    I'm not sure it is a good idea, but there it is, and I'm sure there are many other people who use it for more than storing bookmarks.

  6. Slashdotters sometimes are really out of touch by Stu+Charlton · · Score: 1 · on Democrats Appoint RIAA Shill For Convention

    Bullshit.

    New words come and go. Get used to it. The 'blogosphere' is a reasonable term for an extension of the web that's grown around new syndication media formats. It's used by quite a lot of intelligent people.

    Are we going to suggest Jon Udell is a know-nothing, even though he's had very successful runs at BYTE and Infoworld? How about Tim Bray? Mark Pilgrim?
    The folks at BoingBoing?

    I remember back around 1995 when people thought the "Web" was a ridiculous word, because it really was all about the Internet, the Web was just a popular fad soon to be supplanted by other & better applications.

  7. Re: pedantry by maxume · · Score: 1 · on Chimps Found Making Own Weapons to Hunt for Food

    Chimpanzees are apes, not monkeys.

    (It's not my fault:
    http://blog.jonudell.net/2007/02/22/screencasting- tips/#comment-1019 )