Birds have no burp reflex

Birds have no burp reflex

Yesterday I published an article called [Building up the Advocacy Community](https://www.oreillynet.com/pub/wlg/9057). This short piece just discusses why the advocacy community has slowed down and focuses on how to build the community back up. My band,...
Speaking in Manchester

Speaking in Manchester

This is probably of most interest to subscribers of [Planet Advocacy](https://planetadvocacy.jonobacon.com/), but I will be giving a talk about sensible advocacy entitled *On the Front Line: Convincing People of the Inconvincible* at [Manchester Linux User...
Open Source for Shareware Developers

Open Source for Shareware Developers

[Patrick](https://blogs.sun.com/roller/page/patrickf?entry=why_business_people_write_books), I am certainly going to have to pick a copy of that book up. One thing that has continually irked me is the utterly meaningless language of many parts of the IT industry. When...
Speaking in Manchester

Schools and Communities

Got up early today to head off to iCentrum to do a talk on VoIP. Good turnout and the response was very positive. At OpenAdvantage we have a couple of specific subjects that people seem to go nuts about, and it seems that VoIP is delving into that list. After we got...
Are you a wintroll sheep?

Are you a wintroll sheep?

Well, the [MythTV controversy continues to rumble on](https://www.gossamer-threads.com/lists/mythtv/dev/171985), with opinion on mythtv-dev much more divided as a number of people have stepped forward and identified with the various issues I raised. I am also pleased...