Fairwell LinuxWorld
October 9, 2008
The annual festival of nerdy-ness LinuxWorld will be changing its name and focus next year. Here’s a snip from Eric Brown’s post RIP LinuxWorld:
The largest conference devoted to Linux technology is changing its name to embrace open source software on other operating systems (OSes). Next August, LinuxWorld will relaunch as the OpenSource World Conference & Expo, but will retain existing LinuxWorld features, says show organizer IDG World Expo.
LinuxWorld has been going on for about 10 years and I attended several of the San Francisco ones with my techy cohorts at Clear Ink. It was always a great relax, check out geeky gizmos and pick up tons of free t-shirts. One year we even got to see a great keynote presentation by Lawerence Lessig about “Free Culture”.
Over the last couple of years attendance seemed to be dropping but I’ll miss LinuxWorld, but I’ll always be able to relive it with this touching montage video of my last trip, assembled by Jim Kwak with music by Ric Seaberg.
Concise Theory Explaining the Internet
June 2, 2008
Finally someone has managed to sum up the internet in a simple equation.
Get t-shirts and other goodies promoting this epiphany at Infinite Monkeys 2.0.
Design Coding by Poetic Prophet (AKA The SEO Rapper)
March 28, 2008
Leon Atkinson sent me a link to the video for the song Design Coding by Poetic Prophet (AKA The SEO Rapper AKA Chuck from Pop Labs). It’s an awesome rap song explaining how to code your web pages to obey web standards and increase search engine optimization.
I loved the lyrics:
…Your Photoshop functions then slice that design
Do your layout with divs make sure that it’s aligned
Please don’t use tables even though they work fine
When it come to indexing they give searches a hard time…
Poetic Prophet has a bunch of other videos including Conversion Closing Rap, Paid Search 101 Rap, Social Media Addiction Rap and Link Building 101 Rap. It’s entertaining stuff with solid explanations of online media concepts.
You got Rick Rolled by the New York Times
March 25, 2008
You can always tell that a perfectly good internet meme has jumped the shark when it shows up in the New York Times’ Media and Advertising section. 
YouGotRickRolled.com was covered by Evelyn Nussenbaum yesterday in her article The ’80s Video That Pops Up, Online and Off.
An Underdeveloped E-Commerce Strategy
March 25, 2008
David F. Gallagher of the New York Times Bits blog posted this photo snapped in San Francisco traffic.
Tux the Penguin Moonlights at a Florida Convenience Store
March 25, 2008
Ah, the glory of ambiguous logo licensing!
Austin Davis Richardson discovered that apparently Tux the Penguin – beloved icon of the Linux operating system – has taken a second job moonlighting as an ice-cold drink salesman at a Gainesville, Florida convenience store.
via BoingBoing
