Art is short for Arach Tchoupani

We created DailyLit because we spent hours each day on email but could not find the time to read a book. Now the books come to us by email. Problem solved.

 http://www.dailylit.com/about

Using commandline on the web is something I thought about a while back, after interacting with Twitter on the IM using commands. It turns out, it wasn’t too bad an idea and some good people worked on a project they’ve open sourced.

You can read the rest on Ajaxian

http://ajaxian.com/archives/tphp-your-home-page-can-be-a-javascript-command-line

Also: if you haven’t checked out Humanized Enso yet, consider doing so. These good people were at PyCon, but I wasn’t hip to their game then…

http://www.cyberpresse.ca/article/20080421/CPSPORTS0101/80421212/6488/CPACTUALITES

from Daring Fireball by John Gruber

“This is the white collar equivalent of Steve Ballmer showing up at Yahoo’s door with a baseball bat in his hand.”

Some guy asks a question about large programs written in dynamic languages on reddit. Comments pasted here are some of the gems I found…

“Therefore, dynamic languages don’t actually exist… they’re all just a figment of our imagination. All languages are eventually compiled down to machine code and therefore all languages are just fancy ways of talking assembly.”

ref http://reddit.com/info/6eki4/comments/: Read the rest of this entry »

Gary V is talking about taking some time to talk about good people. How cool is that.

 I want to try to get the WHOLE INTERNET COmmunity behind this mission I have to make sure that tomorrow people write and talk abd blog and twitter and just flat out SING about people that are AWESOME and GOOD. It is time that we take control of the fact that WE are the media and pump out a day tomorrow that will make NOISE across this WORLD! Please take the time tonight to gather your thoughts as you come up with ideas on how to spread the word about AWESOME people! I am looking for blog posts, twitters, powncers, facebooking, digging, flickring, stumpling on all things that are good about PEOPLE!

http://garyvaynerchuk.com/2008/04/02/april-3rd-2008-is-good-people-day-pass-it-on/

I am not quite ready for any PDA (public display of appreciation), but who knows, there are a few hours left in the day!

I like this idea

 Sometimes, it’s faster and easier to just use the command line. Thanks to the new FriendFeed API, I was able write a little script that connects my command line o my FriendFeed.

Ref: http://paulbuchheit.blogspot.com/2008/03/friendfeed-from-command-line.html

Cool!

Link to Praized blog

The “Yes We Can” slogan uses the language of social networks and collective intelligence. Young people online use “we”, politicians use “I”, very egocentric. Some political pundits say his platform is weak. It’s not weak, it’s like a stub in Wikipedia. We’ll do this together.

trick originally found on PyCon’s staff page :

Arach Tchoupani | ”.join([’atchoupani’,'@’,'yahoo.com’])

As I said in my previous post, I’ve been slowly discovering how cool twitter really is. Lately, I’ve come to be impressed with the track feature of Twitter on IM. In case you don’t know already, Twitter allows you to use IM to interact with it. You can update your status and use the IM to give commands such as track python or follow barackobama (I am not political). More on the command metaphore later (And I really like BO).

When you track enough things that matter to you, you end up getting a constant flow of information. You end up seeing ‘the world’ scrolling up or down your screen. I think that’s the matrix, a personalized matrix. 

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This IM client as a way to interact with the web thing got me thinking about … a command line for the web.  webconsole or whatever a cool name might be.
imagine doing stuff like

facebook addfriend hot@futuregirlfriend.com

or

facebook update status -m “off this weekend, looking forward to hacking xyz”

or

yahoo checkmail -new

or

digg submit http://somelink

You know, do stuff on the web in the most optimalest (on purpose) way possible without the crazy (and so cool) stuff getting in the way : javascript , CSS , sliding , woopty-doo I love.

Then we could think about using the pipe concept. But that’s just crazy.