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What’s the best technology base for an activism Q&A website?

Mar 18, 2011

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An activism group I know is thinking about setting up a Q&A (question-and-answer) site.Â What technology base should they use? Here’s the functionality wishlist: users can ask and answer questions, vote on others’ answers, and leave comments multilingual and accessible a pleasant and attractive user experience good moderation tools easy to attach tags (or categories)…

Q: What should I read to find more about the Q&A space? A: Here’s some links.

Mar 5, 2011

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jon

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The Q&A (question and answer site) market segment is red hot right now.Â Here’s some links to complement my own posts Life imitates art imitates life, Prisms, Kool-aid, and Opportunity, and What do you think of this one-line pitch for qweries? The overall landscape Choe Sang-Hung’s South Koreans Connect Through Search Engine (in the New…

How’d that one get by QA: Z2K

Dec 31, 2008

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jon

in entertainment, Professional

Ya can’t make stuff like this up.Â From Ginny Mies at PC World: Picture this: You’re gearing up to create a killer playlist on your 30GB Zune for your annual New Year’s bash. All of a sudden, your Zune locks up, reboots itself, and freezes. What the heck is going on? Fox News picks up…

Rant: I hate software

Sep 23, 2008

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jon

in Personal, Professional

also posted on Pam’s House Blend. for a good time, compare and contrast how Soapblox (there) and WordPress (here) display the URLs in the quotes 🙂 As a “grand old man” of the software engineering field of defect detection, I sometimes take it personally when I run into bugs or usability problems.Â My IM friends…

A bumper crop o’ Slashdot security threads

Apr 16, 2008

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jon

in Professional

In RSA: “It feels like somethingâ€™s missing” earlier this week, I mentioned that I found myself wondering whether what I was seeing at the show responded to security problems as experienced by users. Coincidentally enough, when I checked Slashdot today there were several of interesting security-related threads. So while it’s far from a statistically-valid sample,…

RSA, part 2: static analysis

Apr 15, 2008

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jon

in Professional

A continuation of RSA: “It feels like something’s missing” RSA’s a tough show for static analysis companies, but several were there. Ounce had the largest booth and an excellent message (“listen to your code”); Veracode, Armorize, and Fortify had smaller presence. However, I didn’t actually spend much time at the booths or looking at the…

Strategy, security, and static analysis: what’s next for me

Apr 1, 2008

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jon

in Personal, Professional

Fourteen years ago today was my last day at Digital Equipment Corporation before leaving to work on the technology today became PREfix and the company I started with a few friends that became Intrinsa, so it seems especially appropriate to post about this today … I’m delighted to announce that I’m starting a part-time strategy…

Indeed! The Economist on “computer science as a social science”

Mar 12, 2008

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jon

in Professional, social computing, social sciences

The Economist’s Technology Quarterly has an excellent article on Software bugtraps: software that makes software better. This is something of a followup to an article they did a few years ago; most people quoted think that the situation is improving, although of course as Capers Jones points out it depends on your metrics. And why…

How’d it get through QA — and why didn’t they fix it?

Jan 30, 2008

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jon

in Professional, social sciences

Over on Tales from the Net, I’ve been discussing Kevin Poulsen’s articles about a MySpace security bug that allowed access to photos in profiles that had been marked as “private”. It had been well known for months, but MySpace didn’t fix it until the day after Kevin’s first article. In the interim, somebody wrote an…

Is that why they make you wait till you’re at 10,000 feet to turn computers on?

Jan 16, 2008

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jon

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Boeing just announced another delay for the 787, its second or third so far depending on who you believe, so I wanted to go back to a story Kim Zetter reported a few weeks ago on the Wired Threat Level blog: Boeing’s new 787 Dreamliner passenger jet may have a serious security vulnerability in its…

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