still avoiding other work, heh, just installed bluetooth mouse and keyboard, weee! now i can type from nearby my computer, now i just need a projector for the wall, soon……

, but i bought the soviettes LP from amazon. it is though a great punk record in the traditions of the ramones, clash, etc. the best though is the way they weave their voices together on some of the songs, because all 4 of the band sing. in any case, if you are looking for some high energy music, i highly recommend the soviettes.

Radical library conference presentations. The presentations from the conference, The radical library: taking up the challenge (London, November 13), are now online. [Open Access News]

ICANN, WSIS and the Making of a Global Civil Society [CitizenLab]

SPSS releases Text Mining toolkit for analytical CRM. SPSS Inc. recently announced the release of Predictive Text Analyticsú, a new solution focused on unlocking the customer insight trapped in widely collected, but rarely used, unstructured text data. Predictive Text Analytics is a text mining solution specifically designed for… [unstruct.org - Unstructured Information Management]

Cult of the Lone Coder.

On Malik has a nice post on “programmers who refuse to climb the corporate ladder; or kowtow to the whims and fancies of venture capitalists. An increasing number of talented coders are setting up shop on their own, developing niche products for under served markets and making a decent living…Many of these folks work in anonymity. The business press is unlikely to write about them; the technology trades are too busy focusing on products from the big corporations. But these people are worthy of our gratitude and deserve the publicity because they produce they produce useful software.”

Much of the blogosphere and the tools that have emerged is about the lone coders (and the lone writers).

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The working poor. the working poor A new book by Beth Shulman called The Betrayal of Work‰¥? argues that hard work is just not cutting it in America anymore. According to Shulman, even in the go-go ‰¥ú90s one out of every four American workers made less than $8.70 an hour, an income equal to the government‰¥ús poverty level for a family of four. Many, if not most, of these workers have no health care, sick pay or retirement provisions.

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