November 2007
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Intermailnum
For those attempting to reach me at my searls.com email address, that server is getting replaced and should be up later today, along with the rest of searls.com. [Later…] Stuff is up, but still being sorted out. Please hold until the next agent becomes available. Continue reading
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KFI’s tower closer to going back up
The Whittier Daily News says the La Mirada planning commission has recommended approval of KFI’s request to rebuild the station’s tower, which was knocked down by a small airplane in 2004. For old radio freaks like me, this is interesting. KFI’s signal is as big as they get in the U.S. Like lots of other… Continue reading
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Adventures with Because Effects
Twitter is paying my rent, Marshall Kirkpatrick says. Specifically, I don’t mean they’ve hired me as a consultant, though I would love that, I mean Twitter is great for news discovery. Read on for my thoughts on how you can use Twitter more effectively, but keep in mind that communication has its own inherent value… Continue reading
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The Paxton Theater Fire, from 35,000 feet
So I was flying from Boston to Atlanta by way of Chicago, heading south across Illinois roughly on a vector that took me along Interstate 57. I had enjoyed getting looks at varioius intersections and landmarks (Chicagoland Speedway, Argonne National Laboratory) west of Chicago, the Canal Corridor (with the Illinois and Michigan Canal) and the… Continue reading
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Grate minds scourge alike
Uncov reminds me of @man. @man in 1990-something… Guess what? We already have all the things we want. As soon as we’re ready for something new, we get it — for free. Why? Because the traditional consumer/producer relationship doesn’t exist on the Internet. Don’t you think that if we really wanted the things you think… Continue reading
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Nothing impersonal
Very interesting demo of how Facebook Beacon works. Never mind (or go ahead, mind) that it’s at moveon.org. Note at that second link how Facebook addresses advertisers and not users, in the second person voice. Enable your customers to share the actions they take on your website with their Facebook friends. An interesting recursive circularity… Continue reading
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Remembering…
Microsith. Gluetrain. Titanic Deck Chair Rearrangement Corporation. Continue reading
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Live lunch
I’m at the weekly luncheon series at Berkman, which will be webcast live. Today’s speaker is Michael Anti (Zhao Jing), a Nieman Fellow here at Harvard, and a journalism researcher with the New York Times’ Beijing bureau. More here. An excerpt: Michael will address the question: what is the result when decentralized and democratized Internet… Continue reading
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Making Rules, II
So many comments, so little time. I have to run to a bus in the rain shortly. So I’ll respond to just one: Don Dodge’s. Yes, it’s true that “consumers sometimes forget the bargain they made in exchange for the free services”. But it’s also true that almost nobody reads Facebook’s “Terms of Service“, much… Continue reading
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Time to write our own rules
So I’ve been reading Dave Winer, Ethan Zuckerman, Jeff Jarvis, David Wienberger and Wendy Seltzer, all of whom have problems with what Facebook is doing with its members’ data. Dave in particular is looking for action: There are thorny issues here, but we want these companies to give up control of our information, and we… Continue reading
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A challenge to carriers
In response to my piece in Linux Journal yesterday, Antonio Rodriguez, proprietor of Tabblo, has come up with an excellent workaround for photographers dealing with the asymmetry of today’s Net and the problem of uploading over and over again to multiple photo sites: I’d like to see a white-label services that could be wrapped by… Continue reading
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Is this true? Sure hope so.
Alex Iskold headlines, Thank You Google for Open Social (Or, Why Open Social Really Matters), and begins, When Google and others ganged up on Facebook a few weeks ago, to many of us, Open Social looked like a marketing move. The news came suspiciously close to Facebook’s ad platform announcement and after a close look,… Continue reading
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Another angle on service
Over in Linux Journal: Let’s keep photography and mapping mashable. A sample: Now, in an ideal world — that is, one where the Net is truly symmetrical, peer-to-peer and end-to-end — I would rather do the federating myself, from my own photo archive, with my own APIs. That way I could federate selected photos to… Continue reading
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Gillmor ganging
It’s the Gillmor Group now, but the gang is the same. Continue reading
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Thankslinking
In no particular order… Not quite an error. The pitch is dead. Jumping on the three-wheeled bandwagon. “That Company” for how long? On negative capability. “If you wouldn’t buy your product/service, there’s really no point trying to get others to do so”. Continue reading
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Just one spammer
That’s all it took. I approved one spammer I didn’t know was a spammer and now I’ve got to flag as spam a growing pile of comments to this blog. I just killed three a few minutes ago. There will be a dozen before the day is out. I’m sure the number will continue to… Continue reading
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Flying from Lake Huron to Lake Michigan
The shot above, of Kettle Point on Lake Huron, is one of many in a series taken in a line running from Pinery Provincial Park in Ontario, across Michigan looking north toward Saginaw (and its Bay), Grand Rapids, various towns on the Grand River, and then the shore of Lake Michigan, all while flying from… Continue reading
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Paying and Believing
The piece is titled, NUTRITION IS A FORCE MULTIPLIER A MONTHLY GASTRONOMIC CHRONICLE OF WAR by Roland Thompson, stationed in Iraq And it begins, In my midst are soldiers who have been shot, blown up, burned, and rehabilitated. Whether they chose to return to Iraq or not, I don’t know. In any case they’re here… Continue reading
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Greenland in bluelight
Put up a tabblo of Greenland in blue light at sunset. Another take on this series here. Continue reading
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U R What U C Other Peephole Eat
Behold Fridgewatcher.com. Continue reading