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Information Superhighway Robbery
February 22, 2008

I was just poking around looking at some domains today, and checked in on the .com version of this site. I know it’s been squatted on for some time, and I’m always shocked at how much money they’re asking for it. Who else is going to want that domain but me, and who do they really expect is going to pay $7088 for it? That’s crazy.

Is there no way we can fairly determine who is squatting on a domain and make them stop? There’s this whole (I’ll call it) black market of people selling domains that they’re not going to use for anything except to extort money from people who could put them to good use. Apart from BuyDomains.com, there’s that awful site Sedo.com, that encourages regular people to do the same thing. It’s horrible. I have a very low opinion of people that make money this way.

Blogging Podcast
February 18, 2008

Should I start a podcast about blogging issues? Wanna be a guest on the show?

Not exclusively “how to blog” or “make money blogging” or “build your corporate identity with a blog”, but real discussions about issues in blogging today with people who actually publish blogs, not just pundits.

Habari Gone Awry
February 16, 2008

We’ve been working on rolling out Habari 0.4 for months, since 0.3 came out really. There are a lot of great changes in 0.4. The bad part is that nobody can get motivated enough to release 0.4, or they have a personal agenda to include certain features to be in 0.4 before its release in spite of long discussions about “release early, release often”. It’s so many things that separately are insignificant but together leave 0.4 floundering and gasping on the shore instead of spawning like it should.

For example, let’s talk about the logo just briefly as an example of where we’re spending pointless effort. The logo was the very first thing that the community attacked, and the best that anyone came up with in rebuttal was a capital letter “H”, some remixed clipart, and RKO-style radio transmission rings. Whereas what we have now has history, mystique, prints well in black and white, and functions fairly well as a Habari brand icon. So why are we even talking about this?

Just Waiting For Pizza
February 15, 2008

I’ve had so much to say over the past two weeks, and no desire at all to write about any of it. It seems like I should do a dictation or something, and have my secretary write out my blog posts for me. Perhaps I will look into a service soon – I’ve always thought that my blog entries would sound better if I read them instead of writing them. In any case, here’s a brief summary of topics of things that I should have written about but didn’t.

I got a shave two weeks ago - a real one in a barber’s chair with a straight razor. I actually did write about this, but I wasn’t near the internet when I did it, and I’m not sure where my notebook is at the moment. I’m sure that post will appear when I finally stumble across the notebook bag.