Monkinetic Weblog

I looked at my membership roll today... wow. There's some people joining this site. Cooooool. Hmmm - all I have is your email addresses. I am steve@redmonk.net. Who are you? Here's a random sampling of email addresses that have joined my site (if this bothers you please let me know). I love seeing new members - email addresses are intriguing, seeing how people identify themselves in a form of limited communication...

According to Omni guru Ken Case and Omni's road map, Mac OS X browser Omniweb 4.1 will use the SpiderMonkey C-based JavaScript engine - the same one used in the Mozilla browser. Cooool!

The Cluetrain Manifesto

Flatland: A Romance in Many Dimensions

The Visual Language of Experts in Graphic Design

Hmm. Robert Scoble is touting HTTP Business Services. "His company is being kept afloat by building HTTP Business Services inside corporate firewalls. Makes sense, actually. Businesses have the money to spend on improving their processes and information systems."

Listen to Nickelback covering Soul Coughing's Super Bon Bon while reading RageBoy.

Hans has added perma-links to his weblog. Go Hans!

Dave Winer on Microsft's Scripting Strategy, otherwise known as "All Your Syntax Are Belong To Us". The way M$ chews through this industry astounds me.

I'm in the middle of the first largish-scale OOD project I've done. I'm a newbie to formalized design (UML et al) so I'm fascinated (and sometimes frustrated!) at the process.

Though a programmer/architect by day, I actually have a degree in Graphic Design, and had the pleasure of working with some extremely good designers in my early career. So I'm adding The Visual Language of Experts in Graphic Design to my reading list. Fascinating so far.

Looking for work after your rocketing dot-com turned out to be a pershing missile? NetSlaves has a good article on how tech interviewing works.