tongue in cheek

An amusing tongue-in-cheek post from Adam Thierer looks back at the internet titans of the mid-90s (merely a decade and a half ago), and wonders if they should have been regulated for antitrust problems at the time:

I have blogged about how I wish there was a developer friendly CMS for a while now.

I have also blogged that I wish that top applications would be build on top frameworks instead of homegrown ones.

I have also blogged how I hope for the Symfony CMF initiative for solve all of this.

Having coined the term "The Streisand Effect" a while back, I'm always interested in more examples of it in action.

We recently talked about how Washington Redskins owner Dan Snyder sued the Washington City Paper over a tongue-in-cheek article criticizing him, and the response may actually give us some Streisand Effect data.

In "So You Want To Be a Ruby Dev" Kevin W Gisi presents a tongue in cheek narrative of a new Ruby developer being guided through the choices they have to make.

(It's being discussed on Hacker News too - some good comments there.)

He asks a lot of questions: Which Ruby implementation to use?

Which Web framework? Which Gems? Which version of Rails should you use? Which database adapter? And he caps it off with a conclusion of sorts:

http://po-ru.com/diary/ruby-propaganda/

Both the social media world and the music world have been buzzing about the latest music video from pop rock band OK Go for their song “This Too

Earlier today, it came to light that Chicago-based Horizon Realty Group was suing one of its former tenants, Amanda Bonnen, for $50,000 over a single tweet.