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<body><outline text="&lt;a href= &quot;http://www.scripting.com/stories/2010/03/04/renewedEvangelismBloggerco.html&quot;&gt; Dave Winer&lt;/a&gt; has started preaching the BloggerCon model again. Perhaps BloggerCon is the sort of model that we need to supplement BarCamp." created="Sun, 07 Mar 2010 19:47:17 GMT"/><outline text="&lt;a href=&quot;http://norman.walsh.name/2010/03/06/where&quot;&gt;Norman Walsh&lt;/a&gt; has been &lt;a href= &quot;http://tommorris.org/blog/2010/02/22#When:19:34:55&quot;&gt;context hacking&lt;/a&gt;/geo-hacking. Norm's location is now being loaded into a MarkLogic server. Great work, Norm! We really need to get a group of context hackers together and start thrashing out some standards and code around this stuff." created="Sun, 07 Mar 2010 18:57:10 GMT"/>
<outline text="Smartphones are just netbooks for people who like to blather on the phone rather than shut the fuck up and type" created="Sun, 07 Mar 2010 14:11:02 GMT"><outline text="I just wanted to repost my &lt;a href= &quot;http://www.codinghorror.com/blog/2010/01/a-democracy-of-netbooks.html&quot;&gt; violent agreement with Jeff Atwood's post about netbooks&lt;/a&gt;. It responds to a post saying that netbooks are just poor smartphones. I disagree. Smartphones are just bad netbooks." created="Sun, 07 Mar 2010 14:11:02 GMT"/><outline text="A smartphone has a keyboard: but it is a lame keyboard that you can barely use to write an e-mail, let alone a novel or a few hundred lines of C++ with." created="Sun, 07 Mar 2010 14:11:02 GMT"/><outline text="A smartphone has the ability to make voice calls: netbooks have Skype, which is basically a legacy emulator for the phone layer. If you want to communicate, use e-mail or IM. They are like voice phones but significantly less annoying." created="Sun, 07 Mar 2010 14:11:02 GMT"/><outline text="A smartphone can run any software you like: so long as it has been pre-approved by Apple or some shady cabal of profit-addicted mobile providers. A netbook lacks this significant limitation. Debian, Ubuntu, Fedora, Suse, Mandriva, OS X (Hackintosh), Windows - pick your poison. They all taste pretty good compared to selling your soul to the phone companies. A previous generation of hackers did everything they could to fight against the phone companies - Google 'phreaking' if you don't believe me - now what do we do? Let them choose what software we use." created="Sun, 07 Mar 2010 14:11:02 GMT"/><outline text="You can write code for your smartphone: buy yourself a Mac, learn Objective-C, learn Xcode. I can write code for my netbook: I open up Vim and start writing Python or Ruby or Scala or C or Java or LOLCODE or Brainfuck or Scheme or Smalltalk or JavaScript or whatever the fuck else I want to write. What am I targetting? Oh, an x86 machine with a keyboard, mouse and a Linux OS. That's easy. Did I mention that I can write code on the machine that I'm running it on? If I don't like it, I open up the text editor, change it and recompile." created="Sun, 07 Mar 2010 14:11:02 GMT"/><outline text="You can read mail on your smartphone: but I get to use mutt on my netbook. This sucks significantly less than your mail client." created="Sun, 07 Mar 2010 14:11:02 GMT"/><outline text="Your smartphone is multiuser in the sense that multiple people can use it. My netbook is multiuser in the sense that I can set up an account on it for family members to use, and they can't go poking through my e-mail. (Apparently, the iPad is 'multi-user' in that you can play drag-and-drop chess on it like you can with the Microsoft Surface. Great. Can you let other people use it without them able to read your mail?)" created="Sun, 07 Mar 2010 14:11:02 GMT"/><outline text="Call me when your smartphone runs bash, vim and git. Call me when I can write my dissertation on your iPhone. In fact, don't call me. Write me out an e-mail on that teeny-weeny keyboard and I'll send it back and make fun of all the times your iPhone has turned 'reading' (as in books) into 'Reading' (as in Berkshire town, home of the annual rock festival and the UK home for all the big tech companies like Intel, Microsoft, Oracle et al.)." created="Sun, 07 Mar 2010 14:11:02 GMT"/><outline text="Netbooks are everything that makes computing awesome in a smaller package. I want to take one everywhere: someone needs to start making holsters for these babies." created="Sun, 07 Mar 2010 14:11:02 GMT"/></outline></body>
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