May 2008
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Discovering Columbus
Dawn breaks outside my window in Columbus, Ohio, where I got in after midnight. It’s now 6:07am. Another minimal sleep night, but better than the night before. We passed through Columbus last September when we drove across the country, but that’s no more Being In Town than one would be flying over it. Charles Kuralt… Continue reading
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Blogging 4 Bux, cont’d
Dave points to Mark Evans’ post on the Blogging for Bux biz — which produces about as much income as a paper route. But I dunno, because I’ve never had advertising on my blog and never would. Dave says “professional blogging” is oxymoronic. “It’s like calling someone a professional amateur.” Mark thinks it’s the beginning… Continue reading
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Ya think?
Vint Cerf in 1993: It seems likely that the Internet will continue to be the environment of choice for the deployment of new protocols and for the linking of diverse systems in the academic, government, and business sectors for the remainder of this decade and well into the next. Continue reading
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Framing making
Publius.cc is a new project by the Berkman Center, launched at the Berkman@10 celebration, which is going on now. The original Publius was the name used by the multiple authors of the Federalist Papers, which argued successfully for the U.S. Constitution. The Publius Project is a compilation of “essays and conversations about constitutional moments on… Continue reading
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An OLPC pre-mortem? Hope not.
Sic Transit Gloria Laptopi is a long and wrenching piece about the OLPC project by Ivan Krstic. Just one man’s take, but Ivan’s been a strong advocate for the OLPC’s highest purposes. Performer too. Some pushback from Taran Rampersad. Also this from Tom Hoffman. (And privately from some people.) For what it’s worth, I’ve loved… Continue reading
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What’s up at IIW?
Not seeing large amounts yet on Technorati or Google Blogsearch. One Flickr shot so far, tagged iiw2008. Unfortunately, iiw tags also pertain to other stuff. Continue reading
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Your national paranoia state at work
Andy Carvin & NPR crew get kicked out of a public place for taking pictures with a weird (but way cool) camera. Continue reading
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Ex-parrot walking
Hillary Clinton’s candidacy, which has recently resorted to what Joe Klein calls a “paste-on populism”, has been reduced, even with her West Virginia victory, to a Monty Python sketch. Continue reading
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Remembranes
If you’re busy thinking business is war, you may miss the fact that you still haven’t been killed on the job. That’s one line from Rebuilding the software industry, one word at a time, written more than seven years ago for Kuro5hin, which is still, commendably, around. Just ran across it again now. Hadn’t read… Continue reading
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Rail to Trail to Blog
Very nice to discover, via many excellent comments on a Flikr fotoset, that the Minuteman Bikeway has a blog. Here’s the beginning. Good story. Continue reading
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Handbasket weaving
One of the worst effects of the Reagan Revolution was a near-complete loss of conscious caring about public infrastructure in the U.S. Most capital-intensive essentially public projects with no Wall Street box office were neglected. For decades. I’m reminded of this by On the pot-holed highway to hell, by John Gapper in the Financial Times.… Continue reading
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The train’s a rollin’
VRM is starting to pick up steam just in time for IIW this week. For details, follow the links from Mine! and A nice unpacking of VRM. And thanks to Adriana Lukas, Eve Maler, Alec Muffett, Ben Laurie and Joe Andrieu (along with currently uncredited others) for getting many conversational as well as developmental box… Continue reading
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A light on the end of the tunnel
I’ve long believed that the crossover from the Industrial Age to the Information Age will be marked by an awakening to the need by customers to control their own selves, rather than to remain subordinated to the controlling interests of companies. Same thing with citizens and governments. Cluetrain, for me at least, was about that.… Continue reading
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Reunion.com spam alert
This morning I got a request from a friend to connect through Reunion.com. Seemed innocent enough, and I fell for it. Which is to say, they got one of my email addresses. Nothing more. Far as I know. But somehow they put X and N together and began spamming people I know. Now I have… Continue reading
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Wright makes Right
Back when Bush the Elder was running for President, campaign strategist Lee Atwater said he was going to make Willie Horton into Michael Dukakis‘ running mate. He did, and it was a lesson that has been applied to great effect ever since. Now in Wright Controversy Deepens Voter Divide, the Washington Post says, Religious… Continue reading
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Third wire question
Scott Bradner writes, Network neutrality exists as an issue primarily because there is little real competition for residential high-speed Internet service. In most of the United States there are only one or two ISPs — that is, a monopoly or a duopoly — offering residential Internet connections — if there are any high-speed service offerings… Continue reading
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An open radio for anybody’s streams
PaidContent.org reviews the announcement by CBS of “a new media player desktop app that brings together song personalization and recommendation for users, with a broad, contexual canvas for marketers to reach listeners.” It goes on, The new media player, called Play.It, groups all stations in the CBS Radio network together, providing a wide choice… Continue reading
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Waiting by the river
Haven’t heard from riverbend since October. Anybody know if she’s okay? I thought of her after I read this. Continue reading