August 2008
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Mark-up
In May of last year I flew from London to Los Angeles and shot a lot of pictures out the window. While still ascending toward the sky over Scotland and beyond I shot a city I later discovered was Manchester. Since then the photo has acquired 21notes by 3 different people. Go through the 49… Continue reading
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Mediamarklings
Just so I don’t lose them… A Podcast of Prophesy on the death of TV-as-we-know it on Feb 17, 2009. Background Clips shot by Christian Einfelt in 2004, toward his Digital Tipping Point documentary-in-progress: 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11. They’re all from one long interview with Christain, and they’re… Continue reading
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Piques and valleys
Fun to look at Google’s news archive timelines. Here are some profiles for Obama, JFK, Ubuntu, and Katrina. That should get you started. Continue reading
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Remembering Gluetrain
Every once in awhile I like to point back to the best Cluetrain parody ever: The Gluetrain Manifesto. It went up in mid-’99, and has lived in the Internet Archive ever since it went dark sometime between October and December of ’04. Most of the links to other Gluetrain parts still work too. Continue reading
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It isn’t like the bits have rotted
Since CNN bothered to make James Burgett one of its heroes (an honor he richly deserves) why not maintain the video that says so? Why does a video have to “expire”? For that matter why should the rest of the CNN links on that story, other than the one to the ACCRC, go to expired… Continue reading
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Spammers du jour
Today I got three attempted spam comments from MindCafe.org and one from Jaworski Coatings. I just want to make sure they’re publicly flagged as spammers. (Note: I’m not bothering with others that are purely evil and impossible to shame in any case.) Continue reading
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Blogging X.x vs. What.what?
With linkful sourcings of Darren Rowse, Richard McManus and Mark Rizn Hopkins, Duncan Riley in The Changing Blogosphere and Blogging 2.0 shows me how full-circle blogging has become: Blogging 2.0 runs counter to the prevailing ethos in blogging, which is maximize your Google juice, your page views, your links in, and refrain from sharing… Continue reading
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Business from the home
A wise warning from Shelley Powers: At issue is not that broadband companies are becoming overwhelmed, but that the same companies providing broadband are beginning to perceive that online video offerings such as Netflix WatchNow, Hulu, iTunes, and so on could become an eventual threat to their bread-and-butter operations: offering entertainment packages. Capping broadband… Continue reading
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Request for lazyweb help with Gmail
We have a friend over here who is new to chat. So we got her going on Gmail so she can talk with a variety of others with different clients. But her new Gmail account tells her in the chat window that chat is off and that she must sign out and sign back in… Continue reading
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Olympics in low-def
During the long drive from San Francisco to Santa Barbara yesterday we looked forward to vegging on the couch and taking in the opening ceremonies of the Beijing Olympics, recorded earlier but presented in prime time by NBC on its local affiliates. With our nice Sony flat screen, fed by our top-end Dish Network receiver,… Continue reading
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And absolute ambition corrupts absolutely
This is worse than sad news. One winces to read Elizabeth Edwards post about it on DailyKos. It ends, I ask that the public, who expressed concern about the harm John’s conduct has done to us, think also about the real harm that the present voyeurism does and give me and my family the… Continue reading
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Greater radio
Nice to learn that Joe Frank, one of the greatest radio artists of all time, is back. In a way. You can listen in a browser to .wma selections from albums he sells. It would be nice for Joe to make those available as .mp3s as podcasts. Maybe when we get this put together we… Continue reading
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Dancing on the pin of a head
This here suggests I’m right brained. I can’t get the dancer to spin left. Not sure where to go with that, other than nowhere. Maybe if I were left-brained I’d have a strategy. Hat tip to Sheila Lennon… who [later…] adds this bonus link. Continue reading
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Undeleted
My Wikipedia entry is once again the stub it was. The threatening stuff at the top of the page is gone. The deletion debate page is now archived. At the top it says, The result was Clear case of snow. Article needs some improvement, but doesn’t require deletion to address issues.. TravellingCari 01:58, 7… Continue reading
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Life in the vast lane
Yesterday I not only learned that my Wikipedia entry was nominated for deletion, but that Tara Hunt‘s went through the same process a while back — and failed to survive. She’s still here in the physical world, still on the rest of the Web, but gone from Wikipedia. I’m also sure her experience with Wikipedia… Continue reading
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Making the D list
For as long as I’ve had an entry on Wikipedia, that entry has been a “stub”: a minimal placeholder. Humbling, but at least what little it says about me is mostly accurate. And I’ve quietly enjoyed seeing what happens (or doesn’t) when one lets nature take its course with this kind of thing. Now I… Continue reading
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New daze
We’ve been having a lot of thunderstorms this summer in Boston. On Sunday we followed the last ones out of town, veering west after departing from Logan, while the clouds puffed off to the east. The dawn weather was dreary at ground level, but quite pretty, as clouds go, from altitude. So here’s a set… Continue reading
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The inhospitality business
When you charge somebody for a service, your charge embodies your costs. That’s just the way business works. You bear the costs of overhead, and you charge enough to make a profits above that overhead. So, if you’re a hotel, your room rates embody the costs of heating, air conditioning, water, electricity, maid service and… Continue reading
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Currently operating at reduced power
Right now I can’t log into this blog. Not through the WordPress browser dashboard, anyway. For some reason, my logged-in state was lost, just like my password to it. My outliner knows the login and password, though. So I’m able to blog that way, which is how I post generally. But I need to be… Continue reading