Archive for the 'Guest Post' Category

Guest post: Cory Doctorow in SFO.

Cory Doctorow is currently on tour, promoting his new book, For the Win. It’s about gold farmers in MMORPGs that unionize to combat the terrible working conditions of their computer sweatshops.

And our man Kevin Neely was there…

Guest post: It’s not easy being geek.

As a geek, I run my own server, manage my e-mail delivery software, fiddle with various security programs and write my own bash scripts. Don’t look at me funny, it’s not like I’m doing something so surprisingly different: some people like to cook fabulously elaborate meals or have an incredibly manicured garden, others like to soup up the engine of their car so that it purrs like a kitten but runs like a cheetah. I like to run a server packed full of open source software…

A new kind of open.

You know, back in my day people wrote their own blogs. The commenters left comments, the trolls were ignored and that was that.

And yet here I am with two offers of guest posts, from very worthy candidates…