Exhibit 1: The lastest Morning Coffee Notes talking frankly, casually, honestly about business and the internet. There’s a pile of very valuable lessons in this conversation. Exhibit 2: TechCrunch’s heavily produced, seemingly scripted, wardrobed, cast of 14 CEOs talking buzzwords. Update 12 August 2006: The Om and Niall Podsessions have left me unsatisfied lately. Too …
Monthly Archives: August 2006
Blog Networks Are An Oxymoron
It’s a rare recording label with more fans than the artists it supports, a rare television company with more fans than the programs it broadcasts. Anyone can create a network just by installing MagpieRSS on their favorite server and loading it up with their favorite RSS feeds. Er, I think that’s a network, maybe a …
Different Words for a Sandwich with Meat Cut from a Vertical Rotisserie
Last night, over a dinner of thinly-sliced lamb in a small, round piece of bread with tomatoes and onions, we wondered what we should call this sandwich. According to Wikipedia, here are our options: Gyros – this is the Greek term, ‘jeeros’, and the first time I had one at Drag’s Pizza in Rice Lake, …
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Kyle Says You Should Listen to the First Crack Podcast
Check out Kyle’s Podcasts that you should listen to list. I’m flattered to have the First Crack podcast mentioned in the same list as Skepticality and Cory Doctorow’s craphound.com. Rock on.
Dave Winer on Ad-proaching a Singularity
“When they finish the process of better and better targeted advertising, that’s when the whole idea of advertising will go poof, will disappear. If it’s perfectly targeted, it isn’t advertising, it’s information.” (I said a similar thing a couple months back.)
T-60: Thoughts on the Browser-based Feedreader
Chrono Cracker wrote up his wishes for a browser-based feed reader, and since I’m working on one, I thought I’d respond with my own 25 cents. Automatic Feed FindingYea, I agree – typing in fewer characters rules. Still seems like needing to type a URL in the first place is a workaround. Rate the PostI’ve …
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Tivo Time Travel to Late 80’s Videoblogs
Some how, early last month, Tivo found a Saturday Night Live from 1989 and obediently recorded it. Dana Carvey, Dennis Miller (does the map behind him remind you of Rocketboom?), Al Franken’s one-man mobile uplink (early video-blogger?). This is the SNL I caught on satellite TV working late as a farmhand. Low budget effects, talent …
First Crack 82. David Newberger on Building Native American Citizen Journalism
David Newberger and I talk about CDATimes.com and his experience building online communities for Native American citizen journalists thousands of miles away from the tribe he belongs to. Listen to David Newberger on Building Native American Citizen Journalism [31 min]
Forced Outage
My 6+ year-old DSL modem is not longer serving faithfully. Yesterday, round dinner time, it stopped. Everything. The kind folks at Speakeasy.net are sending over a replacement, but until then…..I’m bouncing around local coffee shops for access. Ok – DSL is back, looks like it was something wrong with the line itself…but it’s hard to …