April 2008
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The Future History of Newspages
Papers are endangered. But I’m not sure the same is true about the collection, editing and printing of news. Or of journalism at its best (as well as its worst, which will always abound). Marc (Andreessen, not Canter — from down here it’s so easy to confuse these tall guys) has started a serial posting… Continue reading
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The rest, of course, tanked
Editor & Publisher: The San Jose Mercury News, The Seattle Post-Intelligencer, and the Cincinnati Enquirer all reported nice increases in daily circulation. However… Continue reading
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Getting back to the high road
Rush Limbaugh drives me nuts, because he’s sometimes at least a little bit right about some things. Of course he’s a shameless partisan hack — yet with just enough humor and warmth that you can’t help but stay tuned. Anyway, here’s a transcript of Rush’s show yesterday. It’s one in which he’s feeding on Rev.… Continue reading
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Indeed we won!
Here’s the link, and here’s the text: Additionally, we have awarded two special prizes for the initiatives we considered groundbreaking. The VRM project lead by Doc Searls is from our point of view a very innovative approach to bring the concept of user-centric identity to customer management. During the VRM Unconference 2008 this topic has… Continue reading
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Reliving virtual Munich
I missed Munich last week, at least physically. But I did get there virtually. There’s a video here of the keynote I gave (complete with slides — nice editing job there by Mike Deehan of the Berkman Center, who also stayed up all night with me as we got this done in the wee hours… Continue reading
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Two posts
In Linux Journal, Is government open source code we can patch? And in the ProjectVRM blog, VRM is user-driven. Continue reading
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Edge 2 Edge networking
Phil Hughes on Bob Frankson, applied in Estelí, Nicaragua: In social-political terms, it means looking for a local solution and then growing that solution to connect to other resources. It seems like something that could be done, would be good for Nicaragua/Nicaraguan communities and would even appeal to some organizations looking to make grants.… Continue reading
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Jump! tonight
After brunch at Johnny D’s yesterday, we caught the Forbes Flyers — a rope jumping team of high schoolers from Torrington, CT — putting on an amazing demonstration of skill and enthusiasm, outside the Davis stop on the Red Line in Somerville. Turned out they were there to help promote Jump!, a movie showing that… Continue reading
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Continuing loss of Face(book)
So I decided to cave in and say yes to patients waiting in the accumulating pile of friend requests at my Facebook account. Haven’t been to Facebook in awhile, so I was also curious to see if “friending” has improved since the last time I slogged my way through the process. First, l lost count… Continue reading
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Splogment du jour
When a blog comment to an ancient post comes into moderation and it has no relevance to that post, and the English is awful, I’m figuring it’s a splog (spam blog) comment. So I kill it. The latest one killed went, question: How many guys ( MARRIED) feel that all they do is for not?… Continue reading
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ROFLFP
At ROFLCON, this time for more than a few minutes. Observations… I can’t post a question using the question tool. I’m at a panel on fame, and I don’t know any of the panelists. (They are, in fact, moot of 4chan, Randall Munroe, and Ryan North of Dinosaur Comics. They are arranged according to size:… Continue reading
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Hai! I haz ROFLCONz kitteh peeplz picz
Shots from the I Can Haz Case Study? session at ROFLCON. The show continues today. I’ll be there. Meanwhile, if you’re looking to ROFL, check out (some of) the many videos linked to by Ethan Zuckerman here. My fave, not mentioned. Runner up, mentioned. Continue reading
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Think softly and punish a big schtick
Seventeen-year-old Brandon Rosario has successfully auditioned for a job as the new Howard Stern. Opposing him, naturally, is his school’s administration. Yule Heibel has the rest. Bonus link. Continue reading
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Studying off-grid infrastructure
To get (and stay) in shape, I’ve been spending more time off-grid. Less blogging and twittering, more time communing with nature. Some of that time I’m not indulging my curiousities. Or at least I’m resisting them. No electronics, for example. It was on one of those walks that I became curious about the story of… Continue reading
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Big news for Small Pieces
Small Pieces Loosely Joined, David Weinberger‘s book from several years back, makes its point in the now-famous Ray Ozzie memo explaining Microsoft’s sex change (from a software to a Web company). Continue reading
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The Oil Bubble
On the one hand, high oil prices are the result of commodity markets at work. More demand and less supply means higher prices. Meanwhile, prices are still out of whack with actual supply, both on and in the ground. Methinks therefore we are in a bubble of some kind. A couple days ago the Wall… Continue reading
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Every story tells a picture
The Clinton-Obama Pennsylvania Decision Tree, by Amanda Cox, in The New York Times. Hat tip to Nathan Yao of Flowing Data, who explains, We see an entire story between Obama and Clinton – positions taken, counties won, and counties lost. Go ahead and take a look. Words bad. Picture good. Ooga. Booga. Via Andrew Sullivan. Continue reading
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Danke!
Some news from München. Here’s a page with some context. No coverage yet that I can find, but I’m busy prepping a talk I’ll give at the same event — EIC2008 — tomorrow morning at 0830 local time there, and 0230 here. Hope my batteries hold up. I’ve had about 6 hours of sleep since… Continue reading
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My so-called Live
Among the many memes I’ve failed to launch, among the most worthy is the World Live Web. The term isn’t mine. I got it from Allen in 2003 or so, and totally saw the sense in it. So, for much of the last three years I’ve suggested that the split that really matters is not… Continue reading
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Noticing deaths
I’ve meant to write about Bill Buckley and Hal Riney, both of whom I held in fond regard. Now I just learned about Darian O’Toole, who was a standout disk jockey in San Francisco and elsewhere. Bill and Hal had full and long lives. Darian didn’t. Sad news. Here’s her now-ghostly blog, last updated two… Continue reading