Soon to be the Software-Developing World. Dan Gillmor is back from Africa with a column on Open source in the developing world. Here's the conclusion: …this may be one arena where Microsoft simply can't compete, fairly or not. Barring a dramatic change in attitude, product and price from the world's largest software company, open source is plainly the way developing nations should move. They literally can't afford to do otherwise…. [Joho the Blog]

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I'm very much surprised that we don't see more coverage of the internationalization of the software industry. Not in the job migration, but in the job growth and job specialization. having 1000 programmers that are willing to work on a project is not super-common, but it is more common than it once was, and with national projects, it might get even more common…..

AoIR now has a Cafepress store, nifty. Some fun swag.

Innovating in a Connected World.

I recently read Bhaskar Chakravorti's book “The Slow Pace of Fast Change: Bringing Innovations to Market in a Connected World.” There is an interview with him in Ubiquity [link via Viswanath Gondi]. A few quotes:
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BloggerCon IRC details. I just posted BloggerCon IRC details over at the BloggerCon 2003 Weblog.

This includes a link to my experimental simple OS X IRC client written in Python & PyObjC. (Currently it's so simple it only lets you into #bloggercon…) [Epeus' epigone]

Keynote vs. the Web. I see that Sam Ruby has posted his excellent slide set from the Seybold show; they are about as thorough and concentrated an introduction to the syndication universe as anything I䴜ve seen anywhere. I won䴜t be posting either my slides or those by Bill Humphries, because Keynote won䴜t let me. That䴜s kind of a pity; Bill had a storyboard-style session showing how you actually do this stuff, with tons of screenshots of getting the job done in Radio, Moveable Type, Blogger, and so on. I had provided a sermon on Why You Should Care about RSS with lots of cute pictures, and a historical overview of the road from the roots of syndication through to the Atom project. But as near as I can tell, there䴜s no way to export from Keynote to HTML. It䴜ll do PDF but there is just no way I am gonna post a 6.7MB chunk of dumb electronic paper. Hrumph. [ongoing]

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keynote lets you export to pdf and export to quicktime, either of which is preferable to the web for most presentations… keynote documents are xml though…. schema is here so it really is not so much of an issue of “it doesn't” as “no one has made it” there is a keynote tools group at opendarwin