I finished reading the first marketing book, Purple Cow. The book is truly remarkable and gives a lot of food for thought. He gave a talk at google about the subject, which also brings up some extra points. It’s a good teaser for the book but I think one will appreciate it even more if one has read the book beforehand.
I just finished reading The Wealth of Networks:How Social Production Transforms Markets and Freedom by Yochai Benkler. It’s a great book that puts the whole social production, such as wikipedia and free software, into a much greater perspective than what one normally sees and analyzes it from several new angles which I havn’t read anywhere before. The only weak points of the book is that its quite long and at times somewhat repetitive.
For the last couple of months, the amount of time I have spend on gentoo has been smaller and smaller to a point where it has completely stopped and thus I decided to step down as developer. Furthermore I put my dxr3 card to rest when I bought my projektor so I didn’t have the hardware anymore to maintain a lot of the packages I was maintaining. I still like gentoo a lot and still use it some of my machines at home.
I blogged about rockbox two months ago when I bought my Ipod Nano and praised it to the skies. After a lot of use (almost daily) I can say that it almost just keeps getting better and better. I havn’t had a single crash or sound issue in the two months. The only weak points are the navigation which is a little to complex (or maybe I’m just stupid :-)) and a theme reset bug when it’s done charging and I unpluck it. The rate of improvements are very impressive. It’s very easy to upgrade so it has almost become a monthly ritual that when I charge it and put on new music I also update the software. Upgrading is just unpacking the new version on the Ipod so it couldn’t be much easier.
Mpeg Menu System v2 has changed name to My Media System to better reflect the functionality of the system. The old name was related to the initial goal but which has since been broadened quite a bit. The new release is the fruit of much of the work I did this summer but it also features two very nice additions from outside people. One is a game module so one can play old Nintendo or Amiga games and the other one is the integration of VDR. It’s funny how easy it has been to integrate it all this time and it’s only after someone wrote a patch that I got around to configuring VDR. It’s really a great system and has been perfect for watching NFL on zulu 🙂
While working on a business plan for our project at iola, it has become apparent that none of us have a good deal of relationship with marketing so I have been looking around the net for some tips/books. In my so far very limited study I have found a list of recommended books from Martin Thorborg (sorry the reviews are in danish, but the books aren’t). If you know any good ones please don’t hesitate to either write me or write a comment 🙂
I stumpled upon this today, creative commons music succes. A truly inspiring story.
I watched a very interesting movie today. The most fascinating thing about the movie was the prototype peoples love for the car. No one wanted to give the car back when they were asked to deliver them back. The people even did a small demonstration when they found out the cars were being destroyed. Most companies would kill for such a loyal following, makes you wonder just what the hell was going on…
My TV crashed (luckily it didn’t burn) so I was looking for alternative solutions and finally found the perfect one. The Sanyo PLV-Z4 projector does 720p HD and is very quiet. Looking around for a modeline for X I found several ones which should work but really doesn’t. I finally found the following one which seems to work rather well:
Modeline “1280×720” 74.400 1280 1728 1768 1984 720 725 730 750 +hsync +vsync
I’ve watched different kind of content on it from TV, XviD, DVD to HD and it works really well with all. I was a little afraid that XviD ~800kbit would be very blocky but it is actually not a problem. Of course HD just looks amazing.
Joysticks are arriving tomorrow, then it’s old school arcade gaming time 🙂