http://goldavelez.com/blog if memes are like genes, then having a conversation in which ideas are exchanged and new ones formed is like...? Tue, 27 Jul 2010 16:27:57 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en Books, language, reading are so foundational to everything that it doesn't seem to need saying. I've been thinking for some time of a site that would be 'books-please.com' or something similar, for people to donate books to other individuals. This site is not exactly what I was thinking of, but ... http://goldavelez.com/blog/2010/07/21/wegivebooks-worth-a-look/ I've been wanting to start this site for years, finally doing it. Its not themed yet, but a bit of content is there: bTeaching.com - everyday ideas for learning and teaching. The idea is to capture teaching ideas, large and small, and relate them to subjects, age ... http://goldavelez.com/blog/2010/06/10/bteaching-finally/ I despise typeahead options. In conversation with a friend, it would drive most people crazy if their friend kept finishing their sentences for them, or worse providing them with options! Yet we program computers to do this to us. Nothing disrupts my train of thought worse than ... http://goldavelez.com/blog/2010/03/16/why-do-we-program-computers-to-interrupt-us/ Check out http://tucson.devcoop.org, where me and a few friends are kicking off a new group of indie developers who get together to check out each other's stuff. I like having collaborators but can't stand meetings, so this is an 'unmeeting' - bring your laptop and plan to get a ... http://goldavelez.com/blog/2010/01/14/tucson-developers-co-op/ Much has been written about the impending demise of journalism. No doubt, papers and magazines are in trouble, and with them the usual revenue stream of the professional journalist. Ellen Goodman wrote a recent column in which she made a great call that crowdsourcing leads to the basing ... http://goldavelez.com/blog/2009/12/11/trust-and-journalism/ On a related note to the last post, I have been wondering what became of the "Hot Seat" group therapy developed by Bill Sands and the inmate Ezra Kingsley. From what I read it sounds pretty effective - its sort of honesty therapy. In The Seventh Step, Sands ... http://goldavelez.com/blog/2009/11/21/whos-in-the-hot-seat/ I've seen a flyer at Antigone Books in Tucson about a Books behind Bars project or something like that that sends books into prisons. I think its a great idea but another incident made me start thinking, which books? One day I took a walk in the Santa Cruz ... http://goldavelez.com/blog/2009/11/02/which-books-behind-bars/ One of the holy grails of programming is the ultimate personal organizer, that place where you can put all your stuff and find it exactly when you want it. In some incarnations it knows what you want before you do; in others its a passive but perfect file cabinet. Many ... http://goldavelez.com/blog/2009/10/30/the-ultimate-organizer-will-it-be-a-web-app/ The real telecommute jobs are often found squirrelled away in forums specific to certain frameworks or languages. Here's a few that are useful to check: http://startuply.com (click on 'advanced search' to filter for telecommute only) http://jobs.perl.org (and Grant Street is indeed for real!) http://telecommutejoblist.com (extracted from craigslist) DevShed CodeIgniter Job Board (PHP) Drupal Jobs WordPress jobs http://goldavelez.com/blog/2009/09/30/useful-telecommute-links/ I have most of my stuff in my own MySql app - lets see if I can get it to show up here fairly easily while keeping the original as the authoritative version... http://goldavelez.com/blog/2009/09/12/hello-world/