MASSIVELY PARALLEL

Kiva is so overwhelmed with lenders that its limiting loans so everyone has a chance.  Microfinance FTW!

I read Cory’s post about the Google laptop theft on boingboing and I saw red. So I started an internet petition to scare the treeware vendors.

The petition is for anyone who’s boycotting MacMillan until the company, and Charkin, offer an official apology for equating a legitimate act of copying with the theft of physical [...]

It feels like there’re more and more reports of things turning nasty these days. Dave Winer of Scripting News reports an ugly case of Lawyers Gone Bad. As with the Derek & Heather mess at JPEG, the silver lining to all of this is some good advice:
If a deal is worth doing, it’s [...]

This is a sad end to a wonderful project. Derek Powazek has left JPG, the photo magazine he and his wife Heather founded. The story is worth reading, especially for the grace and tact with which Derek tells the story. But I was most taken with what he learned from the whole [...]