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I'm Michael Koby, and I love technology. I'm also a programmer, currently doing Ruby on Rails development for a small Houston startup. Here I talk about technology, programming, politics, movies, music, and anything else I feel I need to talk about. If you would like to know more, you can check out the About page.Popular Series
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Down on Dave Winer
I’m kind of new to the area of social media (this blog is almost 2) and I’ve really just started getting into personal branding, social networks, and life streaming on a grand scale. So I can understand if I missed something. Is there a particular reason everyone seems to gravitate towards insulting this man? I’m not trying to be an a**kisser, simply curious. Continue reading
Skype Offers Monthly Plans
Skype, one of the more popular VoIP services has finally begun offering monthly service charges for calling within the United States as well as international destinations. For the longest time, Skype has kept these kinds of fees available only in … Continue reading
Twitter Breakage This Past Weekend
This weekend Twitter had an interesting kind of break this week. The below video contains my opinions on the breakage. I’m trying to integrate video commentary into this website and this is kind of an alpha video. I plan to work on the quality of the video. Anyone have any webcam recommendations? Continue reading
Mp3 Tagging Best Practices
The phrase “best practices” gets thrown around a lot in IT (Information Technology). You have best practices for programming, server configuration, SOA, and even software installation. There are best practices for other things like cooking, organizing, and cleaning. So today we are going to take a look at some of the best practices that I use when tagging and organizing my digital music. Some of these go against other “best practices” for tagging that you might find on the internet, but everyone has their preferences and you are not stuck to listening to just me. Continue reading
Will FriendFeed Help the Smaller Blogger
Dave Winer mentioned something similar in his article, Proof That the End is Near, where he talks about the “tech industry superdelegates” and how he is unfollowing them on Twitter in hope to find the smaller voices as well. It seems that some of the more popular people are looking for the smaller, most likely more original voices in the blogging industry. No longer are they interested in what someone has to say about what TechCrunch, GigaOM, or even Mashable have to say anymore. Well they might be interested, but they might move past the headline anymore. Continue reading
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Would Open Source Java Threaten Mono?
With a recent article stating that Sun is looking to open source Java and have it ship with Linux, I thought I might take a look at how open source Java might affect the open source development world. People like to focus on the doom and gloom when these kinds of “announcements” are made, but the fact of the matter is this: open sourcing Java will have zero effect on Mono. Continue reading →