Mark Hinkles Blog: Linux, Open Source, Free Culture, and more

As someone who manages a large community of users I have been watching for the results of the 2009 Tribalization of Business Study sponsored by Beeline Labs, Deloitte, and the Society for New Communications Research, that looks at how companies lever

This weekend I am in Atlanta at the Atlanta Linuxfest I was also able to sneak down to The Varsity for a hot dog (see the Varsity menu on the left, very heart healthy). I was honored that I was invited to speak and even more surprised to see over 80

I have sat in on these type of marketing meetings, have you? via  Copyblogger on Twitter. Technorati Tags: Humor, marketing

At the Community Leadership Summit in San Jose a couple of weeks  ago I met  Jure Chualev. He’s the community manager for Zemanta who makes a handy authoring plugin for content creators. Zemanta provides a Firefox extension and plugins to pop

A couple of  weeks ago I got an unhappy email from my web hosting provider telling me I was in violation of their Terms of Service. Of course I called them immediately and was told that there was a “phishing page” hidden in one of my web

Some really good posts and information for Social Media and Wordpress integration Beyond TweetBacks: Introducing TweetSuite | Dan Zarrella – Nice plug-in for integrating Twitter and Wordpress. SocioFluid – another social bookmarking plug

As a long time fan of the Linux desktop I was interested to see the the Linux desktop usage number for personal computers increase to over 1.02%. I suspect it’s partially fueled by the popularity of Linux netbooks from the Dell (who offers an U

I am hard on  headphones. I have become very adept at destroying them. I get them caught in seat belts, tangled up in my bag, or jumbled in an indecipherable mess in my pants pocket and occasionally they go through the washing machine. My preferred

This year’s MacWorld and CES seems to be a big let down when it comes to new gadgets. The Mac fan boys were crossing their fingers even though El Jobslimo wasn’t doing the keynote that Apple still might announce a new Mac tablet. Maybe th

Starting in 2009 popular, autonomic configuration management tool, Cfengine will be commercially supported by a company formed by Cfengine author, Mark Burgess. Cfengine has a laundry list of brand names that are using their software –AT&T, Blo