November 16, 2007

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Human flying squirrels

November 16, 2007 in Art, Ideas, Photography, Places, Science, Travel | 6 comments

I don’t know any other way to describe this. Wow.

How long before that shows up in a James Bond movie?

[Later...] That’s a they’re wearing.

Perhaps this is the next step.

Chumby love

November 16, 2007 in Art, Ideas, News | 4 comments

Still don’t have a Chumby here, but Dave has one, which is seriously cool, because fun hacking is bound to happen on it. (As some has already.)

I covered the Chumby before it came out, here in the September Linux Journal. Now that I know it’s out in the world, I’ve invited LJ readers to jump in and have fun too. Dave says, It’s easily as innovative as the iPhone, but it isn’t getting as much attention. Take a look you won’t be disappointed.

I’m sure we won’t be.

Knowing the answer is good. Building it is better.

November 16, 2007 in Ideas, News, VRM | 1 comment

The Economist asks, Will Facebook, MySpace and other social-networking sites transform advertising? Third paragraph in, there is this:

  Messrs Lazarsfeld and Katz, of course, assumed that most of these conversations and their implicit marketing messages would remain inaudible. That firms might be able to eavesdrop on this chatter first became conceivable in the 1990s, with the rise of the internet. Thus the main thesis of “The Cluetrain Manifesto”, written in 1999, was that “markets are conversations” which the web can make transparent.

That misses the original point. I get back to it in What could be better than advertising?, over in .

Overheard

November 16, 2007 in Blogging | Comments closed

I was interviewed by Aaron Strout yesterday, about many things. The podcast is up.

Question du jour

November 16, 2007 in Uncategorized | 2 comments

Can VRM fix DRM? I’ve visited this before, in A Public Market for Public Music.

Gang up

November 16, 2007 in Art, News | 1 comment

The latest Gillmor Gang is up at Facebook. Not sure if I was in that one. Still, if you can get into the Faceo, it’s there.

Sailing the relation ship

November 16, 2007 in Ideas, VRM | Comments closed

Over in the ProjectVRM blog, CRM gets personal. Before reading The Ajatus Manifesto, and visiting the Ajatus project site (thanks to pointage by Zak Greant) I hadn’t thought that was possible, or even worth considering, because CRM seems to be such a corporate thing. But why should it be?

Bonus linkage: manifestos back manifestos.