Scan This Book! Copyright and libraries in 2006
by Kevin Dangoor
Scan This Book! by Kevin Kelly is likely the best summary you’re going to find of the state of a massive “holds everything” library and some of the copyright issues around that.
Blue Sky On Mars
Thoughts on Building Software Products
May 15, 2006
The danger of statistics: Django (the pool player) will overtake Zope
by Kevin Dangoor
I would’ve just posted on his blog, but the anti-spam Turing test didn’t work for me. (I’m not a bot! I swear!) Django will overtake Zope shows a graph from the recently released Google Trends that would make it appear that Django (the web framework) was about to pass Zope in Google searches people run. Of course, Zope (and TurboGears for that matter) are both unique names in the search space.
You see those letters along the Django graph? Those are the letters that tell you that this comparison is complete BS.
Django, Bata are top seeds
ABS CBN News – Apr 16 2004
Django Bustamante earns semifinals slot
ABS CBN News – Aug 30 2004
Dudley Hill, guitarist and co-founder of Pearl Django, dead at 56
kgw.com (subscription) – Jan 20 2005
Django, Pagulayan vie for billiards title
ABS CBN News – May 29 2005
Bare Eye : Bata and Django: Who’s better or worse
INQ7.net – Jul 7 2005
Passion: John Jorgenson plays the music of French gypsy jazz guitarist Django Reinhardt
News & Star – Apr 13 2006
In fact, Django (the web framework) wasn’t publicly released until mid-2005 and the Django graph had a modest uptick after its release.
In a month, Zope will indeed have less mindshare than Django the pool player and Django Reinhardt. But that comparison is almost as interesting as comparing Ruby on Rails to Britney Spears:
