Paul Bausch : I would speak softly to Blogger when no one was around.
"Ev and I spent a week drawing on the whiteboard and furiously coding this new thing. We used a lot of existing Pyra code. And the existing stuff code. Once I really got into it, it wasn't as simple as I had imagined. He insisted on calling it Blogger. (I didn't really like that name very much. But then I'm pretty boring. I would have called it
Remote Update Weblog Script or something.) When we were finished, there it was:
stuff for others."
OpenInteract sounds like a Perl-ified Zope
"[The abstraction layer called SPOPS, for Simple Perl Object Persistence with Security,] allows you to use any supported data store to fetch, create, update and remove objects. Current data stores include DBI (which supports most SQL databases), GDBM and configuration files. However, SPOPS can be easily extended to support CORBA objects, LDAP directories or even simple text files. ... SPOPS exploits the power of perl as a glue language and allows coders to use a common paradigm (object-as-hashref) to perform some amazing tasks."
Wired on something call venture philanthropy
"We're in both worlds already. We can talk the business BS. Plus, today culture is part of the economic machine. And we've discovered that business is also a big part of art." see also :
Initial Public Art OpeningWhat is carrot-sprinkled glue
and when did it "start holding families together"?