http://chile.galangal.org a website by liza daly Tue, 13 May 2008 14:23:40 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en I have no complaints about working from home so far, although it's inevitable that I will go insane from lack of human contact. Until then, I've been busy writing code and playing with the dog. This morning the Tools of Change blog published my post on collaborative online fiction, highlighting some ... http://chile.galangal.org/working-for-the-woman/ I've started a development blog for my open source publishing software project, threepress.org. I'll use it to post news and software releases.  I've got a backlog of posts to make describing the various features in more detail. I was this close to setting up the blog on a hosted service like ... http://chile.galangal.org/because-one-blog-is-never-enough/ I've been added to the roster of authors at O'Reilly's Tools of Change publishing and technology blog. I'm going to be posting about issues relevant to developers in the publishing industry, and also speculating on some directions that publishers can take when dealing with online content. TOC's primary audience is ... http://chile.galangal.org/tacos-of-choice/ A few weeks ago I was thinking that I wanted a bug tracking system for my own personal use. I've used a lot of bug trackers both commercial and open source, but my favorite, hands-down, is the home-grown one we use at iFactory. I didn't write it so I'm ... http://chile.galangal.org/buy-vs-build-and-throw-away/ Quickly skimming an online version of Jane Austen's Sense and Sensibility, I came across this strikingly modern prose: “I never was at his house; but they say it is a pretty sweet place.” I imagined for a moment that Sir John lived in a rent-controlled penthouse featured on Apartment Therapy.  It was ... http://chile.galangal.org/i-see-what-you-did-there/ Just because I bought something from you online or in person does not mean I wish to receive marketing materials by email. If you do send me marketing materials by email, include a single URL to let me unsubscribe. Do not make me send you an email saying "unsubscribe." Do not force ... http://chile.galangal.org/dear-marketers/ I've been following a lot of publishing blogs lately so I'm obliged to post about We Tell Stories, by Penguin Books and alternate reality game company Six to Start. The project is subtitled "Digital Fiction", which immediately brings back memories of dreary academic "hypertext fiction". Those projects often amounted to ... http://chile.galangal.org/six-apart/ Although I enjoyed most of the talks I saw at ETech, I started having the best luck when I stopped trying to go to ones that seemed useful. The Commodore's bartender Scotto Moore performed his "digital fairy tale" called Intangible Method. It's short, watch it.   Also as part of the Ignite ... http://chile.galangal.org/etech-report-3-no-stuff-just-fluff/ By E. A. Vander Veer First Edition January 2008 Pages: 268 Series: The Missing Manuals ISBN 10: 0-596-51769-6 Note: This was a review copy I received for free I've done a bit of ... http://chile.galangal.org/facebook-the-missing-manual/ I've been to Revere a handful of times and today it was to see an opera. This is the second year of the New York Metropolitan Opera's HD simulcast project, in which live performances are beamed to hundreds of movie theaters running digital projection.  This one was Benjamin Britten's Peter Grimes. ... http://chile.galangal.org/petah-grimes/