Jack Dorsey wants to change the way people communicate on the Internet. Are you used to updating your blog once every 24 hours? If Dorsey has his way, you’ll soon be thinking about lots of tiny blog posts from wherever you are, whenever you want. Dorsey, a former software developer for a courier and dispatch service, is the founder and CEO of Twitter.com, a social networking Web site with a twist: in the clipped style of a taxi drivers radioing a status report to the dispatcher, Twitter users post mini-updates throughout the day and night to let friends (and the world) know the minute details of what they’re doing.

Reinstalling your operating system is never a fun or welcome task, but sometimes it’s unavoidable. Restoring settings and downloaded applications after installing an operating system can take quite a bit of time, so I’ve come up with a shell script to make things a bit easier.

Poster presentations are a common way of presenting results, proposing strategies, and explaining concepts and methods. You can create nifty poster presentations with Scribus, the free desktop publishing tool.

I received a request over the weekend to promote this year’s LugRadio Live. Last year’s conference line-up looked pretty great, and this year looks excellent too.

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Stanford Professor David Kelley is one of those rare individuals who has successfully added a new way of thinking to Western Thought: Design Thinking. Indeed, the National Academy of Engineering recognized him for nothing less than “affecting the practice of design.” I have come to have great respect for the process of design thinking that David Kelley formalized and now teaches, and now it is time to show that respect by actually practicing what is preached.

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kinshuksunil writes to tell us about an upcoming free Open Source event in Delhi…

Information is available at http://www.osscamp.in/OSSCampDelhi.

While I can’t vouch personally for this event, I attended the very first barcamp and I have to say that I’m increasingly loving the whole idea of unconferences. Glad to see students in India starting to “roll their own”. Somebody who attends this one, please let us know how it goes?

Here at opensource.org we get lots of spurious requests for “link exchanges”…what do firearms have to do with Open Source?

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It was early June in 1987 when Richard Stallman announced the release of the GNU C compiler version 1.0. As I wrote in Open Sources, it was the most thrilling and most terrifying day of my life (up to that point). Having first read and lightly hacked Emacs code in 1985, having read and lightly hacked GDB code in 1986, I eagerly attended a week-long lecture series on Emacs Stallman gave in Febrary 1987 at MCC in Austin Texas.

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Yesterday I was blog-tagged by Stephen Walli. Does the fact that he tagged for other people mean that I’m not “it”? Oh well…the topic is one that interests me, and I think he started the ball rolling in an interesting direction, so I figure I’ll add my thoughts.

For my money, the three ways that open source can benefit one’s business (presuming you are in the business of open source) is:

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