http://sidsteward.com The Online Side of Sid Steward Fri, 17 Oct 2008 10:29:00 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en I look forward to when we begin interplanetary colonization. The first colonists would probably leave Earth with no plans of returning. They would enter an unnatural environment much like that on today's submarines. Imagine living the rest of your life on a submarine! And raising a family! I suspect they would ... http://sidsteward.com/2007/10/31/virtual-worlds-bring-space-explorers-home/ My father, Alan Steward, recently passed away after a long bout with prostate cancer. I wrote the following eulogy for his memorial. Alan was a man. A man with ideals. A man with dreams. He spent his life breathing life into his dreams. He worked to make his dreams real. When we look around, we see ... http://sidsteward.com/2007/05/11/alan-steward-nov-25-1938-may-2-2007/ What would a web services co-op look like? I asked that before, and I imagined an organization that could do many things. Perhaps too many. One trouble with a co-op is the potential for disputes and infighting among members. If a web co-op had a wide-open mission, then the particulars ... http://sidsteward.com/2006/09/25/do-one-thing-well-over-and-over-again/ Last week, Tim O'Reilly was promoting a special OSCON session on his blog, Radar. OSCON is billed: "a place for the open source community to gather together and gain momentum." I am a longtime free software user and contributor, so figure myself as a casual member of the open source ... http://sidsteward.com/2006/07/17/9/ Back in October 2005 I wrote: So many web services use free software, yet the services themselves, their organization and management, are closed. When will we see a web service that is literally owned by its users, like a cooperative? Or is one already flourishing somewhere? As a capitalist, I can go ... http://sidsteward.com/2006/07/10/web-co-op-whats-that/ Hello– My name is Sid Steward. I created Foundd, and I hope you find it as supremely useful as I do. It is the result of 16 months of tinkering and development. When I started out, I wasn't sure exactly what I would end up building, but ... http://sidsteward.com/2006/06/23/founddcom-online/