On most sites I visit, error pages are infrequent. On Twitter, problems are so common the error pages have their own cultural currency. Sadly, I still regularly hit errors without such soothing imagery:

The group I work with has thought about using Django a few times, but our biggest concern has been the lock-in you get with their base components. We’re already happy using SQLAlchemy and Genshi for a system application in our project. Besides liking the tools we’ve picked, we’d like to avoid using multiple tools for the same task. On the other hand, if a second set of tools provides a framework we’ll totally rock with, sign us up!

Clay Shirky has an incredible article about the Newspaper industry failing to come to terms with its own demise. Gems of wisdom abound throughout, but I found this particularly striking:

Zed Shaw’s NYC VCs Can’t Do Math poses a theory on why California has so many tech startups:

Perhaps Last.fm’s recent revelation will elighten more people to a longstanding reality about the tabloid Techcrunch: