jerry asher

• Personal home page: http://theashergroup.com

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• April 7, 2003: Add a blog to your ACS installation
• April 7, 2003: Response to Weblogging and Dave Winer

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• April 25, 2001, on ArsDigita: From Start-Up to Bust-Up:

  For months now, I've been trying to figure out how aD's management can just ignore the ACS community (and the ACSish market) they way they have. Barely speaking to us; releasing incomplete, unscalable, untested software to us; and finally just abandoning the whole thing midstream. And the only thing I can think of is that they are trying to clear out the community, get rid of the community memory, for when they rollout their closed source, java solution. Maybe I'm just too conspiratorial minded, but how else to explain current management's squandering of a product, of customers, of some of their best developers, and of a wonderfully supportive community? The community. Was there ever a better way to cross the chasm? Was there ever a better way to create/maintain relationships? So was this Plan or Incompetence? The current ArsDigita is VC deadwood. The current ArsDigita will be rolled into a CRM or ecommerce company in General Atlantic or Greylock's portfolio, or M&A'ed in...

• May 15, 2003, on Israel:

  Lemma: In the long run profits are maximized in stable, thriving, secure economies inhabited by educated peoples secure in their human rights. The selfish view towards maximizing profits then prescribes that we implement foreign policies that prefer human rights over crony capitolism. Short term profits may suffer. The Fords, IBMs, IT&Ts, Michelins, Texacos, Shells, Unocals, Haliburtons may suffer and lose market share and even markets to newcomers, but in the long run global profits will be maximized. And as a nice after thought, we'll have populations of educated citizens, secure in their human rights and democratic processes.