Bookmarks for October 22nd through October 23rd

• Internet Evolution – Andrew Keen – Economy to Give Open-Source a Good Thumping – "One of the very few positive consequences of the current financial miasma will be a sharp cultural shift in our attitude toward the economic value of our labor. Mass unemployment and a deep economic recession comprise the most effective antidote to the utopian ideals of open-source radicals."
• Twitter and Yammer Test Dot-Com Business Models – NYTimes.com – Article around the "grow first, monetize later" or monetize from the gates being proven out by two companies: Twitter and Yammer.
• Setting up your Git repositories for open source projects at GitHub « Insoshi Ruby on Rails blog – "In setting up the repositories for Insoshi, I’ve applied the version control experience I gained at Discover, where I was technical lead for the software configuration management (SCM) team. Since some aspects of our setup aren’t obvious if you haven’t managed large projects before, we at Insoshi decided to share the details so that other GitHub projects might benefit as well."
• Ticketmaster to lay off 5% of global workforce – Los Angeles Times – nuff said.
• 3 Reasons to Switch to Git from Subversion « markmcb – "After several weeks of trials, Git seems to offer major improvements over Subversion. These are my reasons for jumping on the Git bandwagon."

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