Month: May 2007

Web 2.0 backlash

Ahh, an interesting matchup going on with a famous community-driven website:

Digg users vs. Digg the company

site: Digg front page
winner: Digg users (at least for now)

Digg - Technology (20070502)

I feel sorry for digg, but you know what they say:

Live by the geek, die by the geek.

I suspect, the more digg fights it, the worse they’ll lose.

(my favorite on the page: Though a lot of the others are/were quite creative. I had to laugh.)

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PHP (and mac) pinup

I was catching up on some of my newsreading when I ran across this article, with the quote:

Is this quote for real?

Image from Macenstein and model from Suicide Girls. (horny php guy desktopper)

I thought I’d make it into this desktop image as a shout-out to all you (male) PHP devs out there. (There was an old PHP image I saw about five years ago sort of like this…those of you who remember, know what I’m talking about.)

(Passing thought: this person has been a PHP developer longer than me.)

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