Muskblog: Making the Internet better since 1995

Twice now I’ve been asked in a job interview about the merits of open source VS commercial software, or how open source software can be used by corporations, or how startups can make money leveraging open source software? What are your assets if all your company does is contribute to and work with open source software? How do you assign a value to such a company?

Online music is a fascinating space with a lot of creativity and competitors, there are many heavyweights but plenty of nimble startups as well. In the olden days, online music meant pirated music. I have too much respect for musicians to be a pirate. Of course I’m in the minority and musicians have had to rethink how they will earn an income. Record labels of course hated the Internet, but along came the iPod, Apple, and iTunes…

I may not be the world’s best blogger, but I know how to collect links and make a top ten list. I stayed up until sunrise on June 15th or more accurately the morning of June 16th, reading reports, and writing down my thoughts. I also participated in the discussion going on simultaneously while people watched the riots unfold on TV…

Online reputation management or at least monitoring your own name online using a tool like Google Alerts has become more and more necessary. It used to be vanity or perhaps curiosity that led to people googling themselves but now given the many notable examples of bad behaviour online, it is a necessity especially if you area  job seeker…

The weather was great today. People were wearing shorts and sunglasses. People were leaving work early and heading to the hockey stadium or downtown or to a neighborhood bar or restaurant to watch the Vancouver Canucks play the Boston Bruins in Game 7 of the Stanley Cup Final…