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☂ Global Mink
Posted on April 15, 2012 by Simon Phipps |
My new travel and photo journal, The Global Mink, is already getting plenty of traffic. One lesson I learned long ago is to always publish anything you care about on your own domain, as you can never be sure what will happen otherwise. So I decided to move it to its own address, at global.webmink.com, […]
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☂ People’s Choice?
Posted on January 24, 2012 by Simon Phipps |
My postings from here and ComputerWorldUK are often reposted at opensource.com by the folk at Red Hat who run the site. They are once again running a “People’s Choice” ballot for all there usual authors, and I’d be rather pleased to get a good score so do please go other and vote for me! Thanks!
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☂ Blast from the past
Posted on January 23, 2012 by Simon Phipps |
☂ Donating Money To Open Source
Posted on October 8, 2011 by Simon Phipps |
My short article about the best ways to support an open source project financially is now available from the Essays page.
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☂ Flattr Is Back
Posted on May 2, 2011 by Simon Phipps |
Flattr is a system that allows you to show your satisfaction with things you find on the internet by making tiny gifts to them. If enough people make the tiny gifts, they build up into a more substantial payment, with the result that authors can be rewarded by their readership. Sounds like a great idea. […]
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☂ Transparency and Privacy Article Available
Posted on April 22, 2011 by Simon Phipps |
I’ve edited the article on balancing transparency and privacy in open source communities that appeared here and on CWUK earlier to reflect conversations on identi.ca and elsewhere and you’ll now find it in the Essays section.
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☂ Sentinel Principle Article Available
Posted on April 13, 2011 by Simon Phipps |
My article proposing using openness sentinels – the existence of an open source co-developer community working on an implementation as validation of the openness of a standard – is now available in the Essays section.
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☂ Updated Events List
Posted on March 27, 2011 by Simon Phipps |
Events bookings have become busy lately and I realise I need to put more data online. I’ve been working on the About and Events Booking pages on the site and in the process have added a Past Events page which I’ll gradually populate with details of the events where I’ve spoken.
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☂ Delicious Broken AGAIN
Posted on March 20, 2011 by Simon Phipps |
Thanks to everyone who has been alerting me to the fact that the same post has been showing up here over & over again. The problem is once again that Delicious has gone crazy and the auto-post task over there is stuck in a state where it constantly respawns. I have reported the problem but […]
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