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Log: Planet run at Thu Jun 18 06:00:13 BST 2009 File Changes: Directory: /marketing/www/planet/ ================================= File [changed]: atom.xml Url: http://marketing.openoffice.org/source/browse/marketing/www/planet/atom.xml?r1=1.2004&r2=1.2005 Delta lines: +30 -30 --------------------- --- atom.xml 2009-06-17 23:00:37+0000 1.2004 +++ atom.xml 2009-06-18 05:00:07+0000 1.2005 @@ -5,10 +5,30 @@ <link rel="self" href="http://marketing.openoffice.org/planet/atom.xml"/> <link href="http://marketing.openoffice.org/planet/"/> <id>http://marketing.openoffice.org/planet/atom.xml</id> - <updated>2009-06-17T23:00:39+00:00</updated> + <updated>2009-06-18T05:00:26+00:00</updated> <generator uri="http://www.planetplanet.org/";>Planet/2.0 +http://www.planetplanet.org</generator> <entry> + <title type="html">Eccles cake in Shoreditch</title> + <link href="http://ooo-speak.blogspot.com/2009/06/eccles-cake-in-shoreditch.html"/> + <id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4649039904546083564.post-3131720890077326755</id> + <updated>2009-06-17T20:11:56+00:00</updated> + <content type="html">Just had an <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eccles_cake">Eccles cake</a> at <a href="http://www.stjohnbreadandwine.com/home/">St. John Bakery and Wine</a> and it was extraordinary. I had never had one before, and that was surely my loss. Actually, the restaurant itself is fairly extraordinary.<br /> <div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width="1" height="1" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/4649039904546083564-3131720890077326755?l=ooo-speak.blogspot.com" /></div></content> + <author> + <name>oulipo</name> + <email>[email protected]</email> + <uri>http://ooo-speak.blogspot.com/</uri> + </author> + <source> + <title type="html">ooo-speak</title> + <subtitle type="html">Mostly on OpenOffice.org, FOSS, and everything else.</subtitle> + <link rel="self" href="http://ooo-speak.blogspot.com/feeds/posts/default"/> + <id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4649039904546083564</id> + <updated>2009-06-18T05:00:17+00:00</updated> + </source> + </entry> + + <entry> <title type="html">OpenOffice.org in Education: Using OpenOffice.org for Entrepreneurial Training</title> <link href="http://ooomarketing.blogspot.com/2009/06/openofficeorg-in-education-using.html"/> <id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4887643299605448632.post-7675159138884344780</id> @@ -68,7 +88,7 @@ <title type="html">jpmcc's shared items in Google Reader</title> <link rel="self" href="http://www.google.co.uk/reader/public/atom/user/06203502505240591501/state/com.google/broadcast"/> <id>tag:google.com,2005:reader/user/06203502505240591501/state/com.google/broadcast</id> - <updated>2009-06-17T23:00:22+00:00</updated> + <updated>2009-06-18T05:00:16+00:00</updated> </source> </entry> @@ -92,7 +112,7 @@ <title type="html">jpmcc's shared items in Google Reader</title> <link rel="self" href="http://www.google.co.uk/reader/public/atom/user/06203502505240591501/state/com.google/broadcast"/> <id>tag:google.com,2005:reader/user/06203502505240591501/state/com.google/broadcast</id> - <updated>2009-06-17T23:00:22+00:00</updated> + <updated>2009-06-18T05:00:16+00:00</updated> </source> </entry> @@ -160,7 +180,7 @@ <subtitle type="html">Mostly on OpenOffice.org, FOSS, and everything else.</subtitle> <link rel="self" href="http://ooo-speak.blogspot.com/feeds/posts/default"/> <id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4649039904546083564</id> - <updated>2009-06-16T17:00:21+00:00</updated> + <updated>2009-06-18T05:00:17+00:00</updated> </source> </entry> @@ -184,7 +204,7 @@ <title type="html">jpmcc's shared items in Google Reader</title> <link rel="self" href="http://www.google.co.uk/reader/public/atom/user/06203502505240591501/state/com.google/broadcast"/> <id>tag:google.com,2005:reader/user/06203502505240591501/state/com.google/broadcast</id> - <updated>2009-06-17T23:00:22+00:00</updated> + <updated>2009-06-18T05:00:16+00:00</updated> </source> </entry> @@ -317,7 +337,7 @@ <title type="html">jpmcc's shared items in Google Reader</title> <link rel="self" href="http://www.google.co.uk/reader/public/atom/user/06203502505240591501/state/com.google/broadcast"/> <id>tag:google.com,2005:reader/user/06203502505240591501/state/com.google/broadcast</id> - <updated>2009-06-17T23:00:22+00:00</updated> + <updated>2009-06-18T05:00:16+00:00</updated> </source> </entry> @@ -388,7 +408,7 @@ <subtitle type="html">Mostly on OpenOffice.org, FOSS, and everything else.</subtitle> <link rel="self" href="http://ooo-speak.blogspot.com/feeds/posts/default"/> <id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4649039904546083564</id> - <updated>2009-06-16T17:00:21+00:00</updated> + <updated>2009-06-18T05:00:17+00:00</updated> </source> </entry> @@ -408,7 +428,7 @@ <subtitle type="html">Mostly on OpenOffice.org, FOSS, and everything else.</subtitle> <link rel="self" href="http://ooo-speak.blogspot.com/feeds/posts/default"/> <id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4649039904546083564</id> - <updated>2009-06-16T17:00:21+00:00</updated> + <updated>2009-06-18T05:00:17+00:00</updated> </source> </entry> @@ -441,7 +461,7 @@ <title type="html">jpmcc's shared items in Google Reader</title> <link rel="self" href="http://www.google.co.uk/reader/public/atom/user/06203502505240591501/state/com.google/broadcast"/> <id>tag:google.com,2005:reader/user/06203502505240591501/state/com.google/broadcast</id> - <updated>2009-06-17T23:00:22+00:00</updated> + <updated>2009-06-18T05:00:16+00:00</updated> </source> </entry> @@ -461,27 +481,7 @@ <title type="html">jpmcc's shared items in Google Reader</title> <link rel="self" href="http://www.google.co.uk/reader/public/atom/user/06203502505240591501/state/com.google/broadcast"/> <id>tag:google.com,2005:reader/user/06203502505240591501/state/com.google/broadcast</id> - <updated>2009-06-17T23:00:22+00:00</updated> - </source> - </entry> - - <entry> - <title type="html">Value : Notes on Foss 2009-05-25</title> - <link href="http://ooo-speak.blogspot.com/2009/05/value-notes-on-foss-2009-05-25.html"/> - <id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4649039904546083564.post-6589002475932314814</id> - <updated>2009-05-25T17:12:48+00:00</updated> - <content type="html">India&#x2019;s Nano is selling the top-end model, not the lower end. I&#x2019;m not surprised. We see this pattern in other consumer goods, outside of India, too. The iPhone wins not just because it works well, but because it&#x2019;s the (supposedly more costly) Apple brand. Quality, status, these two are rolled into the package represented by the brand. One is not judging the value of the object (and implicitly the value of one&#x2019;s judgement) on price alone; that would be vulgar and counterproductive. Rather, one is implicitly making the claim that one can afford value, with the tacit hint that the cheaper things lack actual value. <br /><br />In thin clients I&#x2019;ve seen this; and in Foss, the same narrative. Because thin clients (a better term is needed!) are seen as the cheaper version of a packet laptop (or even leaner netbook, and in comparison to the iPhone--please, let&#x2019;s not utter them in the same sentence), and because Foss is seen as the poor man&#x2019;s costly proprietary software, neither can win: both lose by virtue of their perceived--not actual--value. It doesn&#x2019;t matter that, say, OpenOffice.org is superior to proprietary equivalents in many areas, or that, I have no doubt, the Nano is more than adequate for the needs of the typical driver in India and elsewhere. The perceived value of these and their kind is that they are, in a word, &#x201c;cheap.&#x201d; <br /><br />(Digression 1: English has that wonderful word; French does not--it&#x2019;s bon march&#x00e9;, as if you got a good bargain--and in Spanish, it&#x2019;s barato, again, hinting at a good bargain. English reduces the logic to &#x201c;cheap,&#x201d; a term that implies value as good as the price and hints that you could have done so much better, had you only not been such a miser and so cheap. We are, in English, so often what we buy. I&#x2019;d be interested to learn what other languages say about their culture of the marketplace, and if they have single, pithy words like, &#x201c;cheap.&#x201d;)<br /><br />(Digression 2: I&#x2019;m hardly discounting the appeal of the inexpensive and even cheap, which when spun right works. EBay has made billions by emphasizing value you can afford; and I live a long block away by the unbelievably gaudy Honest Ed&#x2019;s, which <em>loudly</em> proclaims itself as selling cheap things--but that is to say, good deals. Cheap, when spun right, sells. No one wants to be taken for a fool, no matter how much you can afford it.)<br /><br />So, what we&#x2019;ve done with OpenOffice.org is to focus on other elements: it&#x2019;s quality, which is to say, it&#x2019;s real value, using, whenever possible, actual examples. I started doing this a couple of years ago, at a large conference, when I emphasized that the reason I use OOo is not because it&#x2019;s free--cheap--but because it gives freedom; not because it does only what I need, but because I can add to it, modify it, make it mine in a way i cannot with proprietary software. I use Firefox, I explained, not because it is cheap and I didn&#x2019;t have to pay anything for it. All browsers (with a couple of interesting exceptions) are like that: free. Rather, I use it because it does things Safari cannot; and because it gives me freedoms closed source software, however open the APIs may be, does not. I use it, in short, because it is a better commodity and it is a commodity that transcends its status as merely a thing lying there with the trace of its making inaccessible.<br /><br />Like all Foss, Firefox and OpenOffice.org proclaim their community and that community is accessible.<br /><br /><br /><div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width="1" height="1" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/4649039904546083564-6589002475932314814?l=ooo-speak.blogspot.com" /></div></content> - <author> - <name>oulipo</name> - <email>[email protected]</email> - <uri>http://ooo-speak.blogspot.com/</uri> - </author> - <source> - <title type="html">ooo-speak</title> - <subtitle type="html">Mostly on OpenOffice.org, FOSS, and everything else.</subtitle> - <link rel="self" href="http://ooo-speak.blogspot.com/feeds/posts/default"/> - <id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4649039904546083564</id> - <updated>2009-06-16T17:00:21+00:00</updated> + <updated>2009-06-18T05:00:16+00:00</updated> </source> </entry> File [changed]: barchart.png Url: http://marketing.openoffice.org/source/browse/marketing/www/planet/barchart.png?rev=1.221&content-type=text/vnd.viewcvs-markup File [changed]: downloads.gif Url: http://marketing.openoffice.org/source/browse/marketing/www/planet/downloads.gif?rev=1.226&content-type=text/vnd.viewcvs-markup File [changed]: index.html Url: http://marketing.openoffice.org/source/browse/marketing/www/planet/index.html?r1=1.2011&r2=1.2012 Delta lines: +16 -15 --------------------- --- index.html 2009-06-17 23:00:37+0000 1.2011 +++ index.html 2009-06-18 05:00:07+0000 1.2012 @@ -36,8 +36,23 @@ <a href="rss20.xml"><img src="rss2.gif" alt="Link to RSS 2 feed" /></a> </div> -<p><em>Bloggings on marketing topics by project members - see <a href="#disclaimer">disclaimer</a>.<br />Last updated: June 17, 2009 11:00 PM GMT</em></p> +<p><em>Bloggings on marketing topics by project members - see <a href="#disclaimer">disclaimer</a>.<br />Last updated: June 18, 2009 05:00 AM GMT</em></p> +<h2>June 17, 2009</h2> +<h3> +<a href="http://ooo-speak.blogspot.com/"; title="ooo-speak"> +Louis Suarez-Potts</a> : +<a href="http://ooo-speak.blogspot.com/2009/06/eccles-cake-in-shoreditch.html";> +Eccles cake in Shoreditch</a> +</h3> +<p> +Just had an <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eccles_cake";>Eccles cake</a> at <a href="http://www.stjohnbreadandwine.com/home/";>St. John Bakery and Wine</a> and it was extraordinary. I had never had one before, and that was surely my loss. Actually, the restaurant itself is fairly extraordinary.<br /> <div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width="1" height="1" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/4649039904546083564-3131720890077326755?l=ooo-speak.blogspot.com"; /></div></p> +<p> +<em><a href="http://ooo-speak.blogspot.com/2009/06/eccles-cake-in-shoreditch.html";>by oulipo ([email protected]) at June 17, 2009 08:11 PM BST</a></em> +</p> +<br /> +<hr /> +<br /> <h2>June 16, 2009</h2> <h3> <a href="http://ooomarketing.blogspot.com/"; title="OpenOffice.org Marketing Blog"> @@ -413,20 +428,6 @@ <br /> <hr /> <br /> -<h3> -<a href="http://ooo-speak.blogspot.com/"; title="ooo-speak"> -Louis Suarez-Potts</a> : -<a href="http://ooo-speak.blogspot.com/2009/05/value-notes-on-foss-2009-05-25.html";> -Value : Notes on Foss 2009-05-25</a> -</h3> -<p> -India’s Nano is selling the top-end model, not the lower end. I’m not surprised. We see this pattern in other consumer goods, outside of India, too. The iPhone wins not just because it works well, but because it’s the (supposedly more costly) Apple brand. Quality, status, these two are rolled into the package represented by the brand. One is not judging the value of the object (and implicitly the value of one’s judgement) on price alone; that would be vulgar and counterproductive. Rather, one is implicitly making the claim that one can afford value, with the tacit hint that the cheaper things lack actual value. <br /><br />In thin clients I’ve seen this; and in Foss, the same narrative. Because thin clients (a better term is needed!) are seen as the cheaper version of a packet laptop (or even leaner netbook, and in comparison to the iPhone--please, let’s not utter them in the same sentence), and because Foss is seen as the poor man’s costly proprietary software, neither can win: both lose by virtue of their perceived--not actual--value. It doesn’t matter that, say, OpenOffice.org is superior to proprietary equivalents in many areas, or that, I have no doubt, the Nano is more than adequate for the needs of the typical driver in India and elsewhere. The perceived value of these and their kind is that they are, in a word, “cheap.” <br /><br />(Digression 1: English has that wonderful word; French does not--it’s bon marché, as if you got a good bargain--and in Spanish, it’s barato, again, hinting at a good bargain. English reduces the logic to “cheap,” a term that implies value as good as the price and hints that you could have done so much better, had you only not been such a miser and so cheap. We are, in English, so often what we buy. I’d be interested to learn what other languages say about their culture of the marketplace, and if they have single, pithy words like, “cheap.”)<br /><br />(Digression 2: I’m hardly discounting the appeal of the inexpensive and even cheap, which when spun right works. EBay has made billions by emphasizing value you can afford; and I live a long block away by the unbelievably gaudy Honest Ed’s, which <em>loudly</em> proclaims itself as selling cheap things--but that is to say, good deals. Cheap, when spun right, sells. No one wants to be taken for a fool, no matter how much you can afford it.)<br /><br />So, what we’ve done with OpenOffice.org is to focus on other elements: it’s quality, which is to say, it’s real value, using, whenever possible, actual examples. I started doing this a couple of years ago, at a large conference, when I emphasized that the reason I use OOo is not because it’s free--cheap--but because it gives freedom; not because it does only what I need, but because I can add to it, modify it, make it mine in a way i cannot with proprietary software. I use Firefox, I explained, not because it is cheap and I didn’t have to pay anything for it. All browsers (with a couple of interesting exceptions) are like that: free. Rather, I use it because it does things Safari cannot; and because it gives me freedoms closed source software, however open the APIs may be, does not. I use it, in short, because it is a better commodity and it is a commodity that transcends its status as merely a thing lying there with the trace of its making inaccessible.<br /><br />Like all Foss, Firefox and OpenOffice.org proclaim their community and that community is accessible.<br /><br /><br /><div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width="1" height="1" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/4649039904546083564-6589002475932314814?l=ooo-speak.blogspot.com"; /></div></p> -<p> -<em><a href="http://ooo-speak.blogspot.com/2009/05/value-notes-on-foss-2009-05-25.html";>by oulipo ([email protected]) at May 25, 2009 05:12 PM BST</a></em> -</p> -<br /> -<hr /> -<br /> <a id="disclaimer" name="disclaimer"></a> <p><em>Disclaimer: all views expressed on this page are those of the individual contributors, and may not reflect the views of the File [changed]: opml.xml Url: http://marketing.openoffice.org/source/browse/marketing/www/planet/opml.xml?r1=1.2004&r2=1.2005 Delta lines: +1 -1 ------------------- --- opml.xml 2009-06-17 23:00:38+0000 1.2004 +++ opml.xml 2009-06-18 05:00:08+0000 1.2005 @@ -2,7 +2,7 @@ <opml version="1.1"> <head> <title>Marketing Planet</title> - <dateModified>Wed, 17 Jun 2009 23:00:40 +0000</dateModified> + <dateModified>Thu, 18 Jun 2009 05:00:26 +0000</dateModified> <ownerName>Marketing Project</ownerName> <ownerEmail>[email protected]</ownerEmail> </head> File [changed]: piechart.png Url: http://marketing.openoffice.org/source/browse/marketing/www/planet/piechart.png?rev=1.149&content-type=text/vnd.viewcvs-markup File [changed]: rss10.xml Url: http://marketing.openoffice.org/source/browse/marketing/www/planet/rss10.xml?r1=1.769&r2=1.770 Delta lines: +8 -8 ------------------- --- rss10.xml 2009-06-16 23:00:12+0000 1.769 +++ rss10.xml 2009-06-18 05:00:08+0000 1.770 @@ -13,6 +13,7 @@ <items> <rdf:Seq> + <rdf:li rdf:resource="tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4649039904546083564.post-3131720890077326755" /> <rdf:li rdf:resource="tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4887643299605448632.post-7675159138884344780" /> <rdf:li rdf:resource="tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4887643299605448632.post-6793350226421939452" /> <rdf:li rdf:resource="tag:google.com,2005:reader/item/7dc2f4f19d6c62ef" /> @@ -32,11 +33,17 @@ <rdf:li rdf:resource="tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4649039904546083564.post-4201241808110432115" /> <rdf:li rdf:resource="tag:google.com,2005:reader/item/78154ce7426b0c6a" /> <rdf:li rdf:resource="tag:google.com,2005:reader/item/d1a38e6f8a4c00f9" /> - <rdf:li rdf:resource="tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4649039904546083564.post-6589002475932314814" /> </rdf:Seq> </items> </channel> +<item rdf:about="tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4649039904546083564.post-3131720890077326755"> + <title>Louis Suarez-Potts: Eccles cake in Shoreditch</title> + <link>http://ooo-speak.blogspot.com/2009/06/eccles-cake-in-shoreditch.html</link> + <content:encoded>Just had an <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eccles_cake">Eccles cake</a> at <a href="http://www.stjohnbreadandwine.com/home/">St. John Bakery and Wine</a> and it was extraordinary. I had never had one before, and that was surely my loss. Actually, the restaurant itself is fairly extraordinary.<br /> <div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width="1" height="1" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/4649039904546083564-3131720890077326755?l=ooo-speak.blogspot.com" /></div></content:encoded> + <dc:date>2009-06-17T20:11:56+00:00</dc:date> + <dc:creator>oulipo</dc:creator> +</item> <item rdf:about="tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4887643299605448632.post-7675159138884344780"> <title>OOo Marketeers: OpenOffice.org in Education: Using OpenOffice.org for Entrepreneurial Training</title> <link>http://ooomarketing.blogspot.com/2009/06/openofficeorg-in-education-using.html</link> @@ -259,12 +266,5 @@ <dc:date>2009-05-25T19:56:33+00:00</dc:date> <dc:creator>Andreas Bartel</dc:creator> </item> -<item rdf:about="tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4649039904546083564.post-6589002475932314814"> - <title>Louis Suarez-Potts: Value : Notes on Foss 2009-05-25</title> - <link>http://ooo-speak.blogspot.com/2009/05/value-notes-on-foss-2009-05-25.html</link> - <content:encoded>India&#x2019;s Nano is selling the top-end model, not the lower end. I&#x2019;m not surprised. We see this pattern in other consumer goods, outside of India, too. The iPhone wins not just because it works well, but because it&#x2019;s the (supposedly more costly) Apple brand. Quality, status, these two are rolled into the package represented by the brand. One is not judging the value of the object (and implicitly the value of one&#x2019;s judgement) on price alone; that would be vulgar and counterproductive. Rather, one is implicitly making the claim that one can afford value, with the tacit hint that the cheaper things lack actual value. <br /><br />In thin clients I&#x2019;ve seen this; and in Foss, the same narrative. Because thin clients (a better term is needed!) are seen as the cheaper version of a packet laptop (or even leaner netbook, and in comparison to the iPhone--please, let&#x2019;s not utter them in the same sentence), and because Foss is seen as the poor man&#x2019;s costly proprietary software, neither can win: both lose by virtue of their perceived--not actual--value. It doesn&#x2019;t matter that, say, OpenOffice.org is superior to proprietary equivalents in many areas, or that, I have no doubt, the Nano is more than adequate for the needs of the typical driver in India and elsewhere. The perceived value of these and their kind is that they are, in a word, &#x201c;cheap.&#x201d; <br /><br />(Digression 1: English has that wonderful word; French does not--it&#x2019;s bon march&#x00e9;, as if you got a good bargain--and in Spanish, it&#x2019;s barato, again, hinting at a good bargain. English reduces the logic to &#x201c;cheap,&#x201d; a term that implies value as good as the price and hints that you could have done so much better, had you only not been such a miser and so cheap. We are, in English, so often what we buy. I&#x2019;d be interested to learn what other languages say about their culture of the marketplace, and if they have single, pithy words like, &#x201c;cheap.&#x201d;)<br /><br />(Digression 2: I&#x2019;m hardly discounting the appeal of the inexpensive and even cheap, which when spun right works. EBay has made billions by emphasizing value you can afford; and I live a long block away by the unbelievably gaudy Honest Ed&#x2019;s, which <em>loudly</em> proclaims itself as selling cheap things--but that is to say, good deals. Cheap, when spun right, sells. No one wants to be taken for a fool, no matter how much you can afford it.)<br /><br />So, what we&#x2019;ve done with OpenOffice.org is to focus on other elements: it&#x2019;s quality, which is to say, it&#x2019;s real value, using, whenever possible, actual examples. I started doing this a couple of years ago, at a large conference, when I emphasized that the reason I use OOo is not because it&#x2019;s free--cheap--but because it gives freedom; not because it does only what I need, but because I can add to it, modify it, make it mine in a way i cannot with proprietary software. I use Firefox, I explained, not because it is cheap and I didn&#x2019;t have to pay anything for it. All browsers (with a couple of interesting exceptions) are like that: free. Rather, I use it because it does things Safari cannot; and because it gives me freedoms closed source software, however open the APIs may be, does not. I use it, in short, because it is a better commodity and it is a commodity that transcends its status as merely a thing lying there with the trace of its making inaccessible.<br /><br />Like all Foss, Firefox and OpenOffice.org proclaim their community and that community is accessible.<br /><br /><br /><div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width="1" height="1" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/4649039904546083564-6589002475932314814?l=ooo-speak.blogspot.com" /></div></content:encoded> - <dc:date>2009-05-25T17:12:48+00:00</dc:date> - <dc:creator>oulipo</dc:creator> -</item> </rdf:RDF> File [changed]: rss20.xml Url: http://marketing.openoffice.org/source/browse/marketing/www/planet/rss20.xml?r1=1.769&r2=1.770 Delta lines: +8 -8 ------------------- --- rss20.xml 2009-06-16 23:00:13+0000 1.769 +++ rss20.xml 2009-06-18 05:00:09+0000 1.770 @@ -8,6 +8,14 @@ <description>Marketing Planet - http://marketing.openoffice.org/planet/</description> <item> + <title>Louis Suarez-Potts: Eccles cake in Shoreditch</title> + <guid>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4649039904546083564.post-3131720890077326755</guid> + <link>http://ooo-speak.blogspot.com/2009/06/eccles-cake-in-shoreditch.html</link> + <description>Just had an <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eccles_cake">Eccles cake</a> at <a href="http://www.stjohnbreadandwine.com/home/">St. John Bakery and Wine</a> and it was extraordinary. I had never had one before, and that was surely my loss. Actually, the restaurant itself is fairly extraordinary.<br /> <div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width="1" height="1" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/4649039904546083564-3131720890077326755?l=ooo-speak.blogspot.com" /></div></description> + <pubDate>Wed, 17 Jun 2009 20:11:56 +0000</pubDate> + <author>[email protected] (oulipo)</author> +</item> +<item> <title>OOo Marketeers: OpenOffice.org in Education: Using OpenOffice.org for Entrepreneurial Training</title> <guid>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4887643299605448632.post-7675159138884344780</guid> <link>http://ooomarketing.blogspot.com/2009/06/openofficeorg-in-education-using.html</link> @@ -242,14 +250,6 @@ <p>To check how that approach works in our context and what we can actually get out of it, I did a small ideation âexperimentâ for the last two weeks. The first week I spent on drawing sketches like a maniac by myself. However, through our proposal collection phase, I was too restricted in my head. It is actually hard to let things go to which one is so used to. Last week, we repeated the ideation method with a couple of colleagues with various backgrounds. We had Dev, QA, Tooling, and UX onboard. In two groups, we started brainstorming about how we would want the ideal Impress to be. For three minutes, everyone wrote adjectives attributed to the âimaginaryâ Impress on sticky notes and then we put them on the wall, and started sorting and organizing them.<br /><br />Amazingly a lot of the adjectives overlapped. At the end, we were able to define two main groups that had a lot more adjectives than others. The first group could be described as the one concerned with usability while the second group was all about positive experiences, emotions and aesthetics of the product. That happed in both groups by the way. In sum, everyone in Dev, QA, Tooling, and UX wanted the future Impress to be easy to use and âprettyâ! These are quite basic needs, arenât they? And all from people with totally different backgrounds.</p></description> <pubDate>Mon, 25 May 2009 19:56:33 +0000</pubDate> </item> -<item> - <title>Louis Suarez-Potts: Value : Notes on Foss 2009-05-25</title> - <guid>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4649039904546083564.post-6589002475932314814</guid> - <link>http://ooo-speak.blogspot.com/2009/05/value-notes-on-foss-2009-05-25.html</link> - <description>India&#x2019;s Nano is selling the top-end model, not the lower end. I&#x2019;m not surprised. We see this pattern in other consumer goods, outside of India, too. The iPhone wins not just because it works well, but because it&#x2019;s the (supposedly more costly) Apple brand. Quality, status, these two are rolled into the package represented by the brand. One is not judging the value of the object (and implicitly the value of one&#x2019;s judgement) on price alone; that would be vulgar and counterproductive. Rather, one is implicitly making the claim that one can afford value, with the tacit hint that the cheaper things lack actual value. <br /><br />In thin clients I&#x2019;ve seen this; and in Foss, the same narrative. Because thin clients (a better term is needed!) are seen as the cheaper version of a packet laptop (or even leaner netbook, and in comparison to the iPhone--please, let&#x2019;s not utter them in the same sentence), and because Foss is seen as the poor man&#x2019;s costly proprietary software, neither can win: both lose by virtue of their perceived--not actual--value. It doesn&#x2019;t matter that, say, OpenOffice.org is superior to proprietary equivalents in many areas, or that, I have no doubt, the Nano is more than adequate for the needs of the typical driver in India and elsewhere. The perceived value of these and their kind is that they are, in a word, &#x201c;cheap.&#x201d; <br /><br />(Digression 1: English has that wonderful word; French does not--it&#x2019;s bon march&#x00e9;, as if you got a good bargain--and in Spanish, it&#x2019;s barato, again, hinting at a good bargain. English reduces the logic to &#x201c;cheap,&#x201d; a term that implies value as good as the price and hints that you could have done so much better, had you only not been such a miser and so cheap. We are, in English, so often what we buy. I&#x2019;d be interested to learn what other languages say about their culture of the marketplace, and if they have single, pithy words like, &#x201c;cheap.&#x201d;)<br /><br />(Digression 2: I&#x2019;m hardly discounting the appeal of the inexpensive and even cheap, which when spun right works. EBay has made billions by emphasizing value you can afford; and I live a long block away by the unbelievably gaudy Honest Ed&#x2019;s, which <em>loudly</em> proclaims itself as selling cheap things--but that is to say, good deals. Cheap, when spun right, sells. No one wants to be taken for a fool, no matter how much you can afford it.)<br /><br />So, what we&#x2019;ve done with OpenOffice.org is to focus on other elements: it&#x2019;s quality, which is to say, it&#x2019;s real value, using, whenever possible, actual examples. I started doing this a couple of years ago, at a large conference, when I emphasized that the reason I use OOo is not because it&#x2019;s free--cheap--but because it gives freedom; not because it does only what I need, but because I can add to it, modify it, make it mine in a way i cannot with proprietary software. I use Firefox, I explained, not because it is cheap and I didn&#x2019;t have to pay anything for it. All browsers (with a couple of interesting exceptions) are like that: free. Rather, I use it because it does things Safari cannot; and because it gives me freedoms closed source software, however open the APIs may be, does not. I use it, in short, because it is a better commodity and it is a commodity that transcends its status as merely a thing lying there with the trace of its making inaccessible.<br /><br />Like all Foss, Firefox and OpenOffice.org proclaim their community and that community is accessible.<br /><br /><br /><div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width="1" height="1" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/4649039904546083564-6589002475932314814?l=ooo-speak.blogspot.com" /></div></description> - <pubDate>Mon, 25 May 2009 17:12:48 +0000</pubDate> - <author>[email protected] (oulipo)</author> -</item> </channel> </rss> --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [email protected] For additional commands, e-mail: [email protected]
