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These are other web pages that I find interesting and useful. I recommend you visit them too.
My friend Charles Gadeken produces ambitous works of art and then burns them.
The official Burning Man home page. Art, music and performance in the desert of Nevada each summer.
For most of history, business has been an essentially human activity, taking place in the bazaar. Communication was free wheeling and rapid. More recently, communication in business has been strictly controlled by corporate interests through professional marketing, imaging, advertising, public relations, and customer "service" scripted according to carefully set policy. The customer hasn't had a whole lot of opportunity to say much about it. Neither has the low-level employee far down in the corporate heirarchy. But very recently the torrential communications channels of the Internet has allowed the people to take back the market from the corporation; similarly it has empowered the average employee by giving them a voice.
It's important to understand that not only is there nothing a corporation can do to prevent this; it has already happened. Businesses can only survive in the networked age by understanding and working with the principles espoused in the Cluetrain Manifesto. Those that don't won't just be crushed by their competition; they'll be ridiculed mercilessly by the public until they either come to terms with it or just go out of business.
If you are a programmer, or use computers to create digital audio, video or graphics, you should now about this new, modern operating system which is designed for the creation of digital media. Much of this web site was authored on the BeOS.
Unfortunately, Be, Inc., the creator of the BeOS, failed as a business. However the torch has been passed to the Haiku Operating System project, which is working to create an Open Source clone of the BeOS.
Publisher of productivity and utility software for the Macintosh, BeOS and Windows, most of which I wrote or worked on. Once a frequent consulting client, Working Software is no longer in business. I don't link to it anymore because its domain has been sold.
A simple discussion of why everyone, even ordinary people, should use encryption to protect their privacy, with links to where you can get free, high-quality encryption software. Remember - many people who work at your ISP, or at the ISP's of anyone who you correspond with, or at the machines in between that make up the internet, can read your messages.
Once you've got PGP after reading the above page, you can send me private messages with my Pretty Good Privacy public key.