January 2009
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Eight years’ differences
In the Atlantic. Tweeted by Werner Vogels. Continue reading
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In the likely event of a water landing
Good, tight story of what happened on USA1549. In the International Herald Tribune. By the way, somewhere in this weekend’s Prairie Home Companion, Garrison Keillor sings a delightful tribute to the crew of flight 1549. Heard it live yesterday. The show is running again today on many public stations. Public Radio Fan has times and… Continue reading
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New England Blues
The soft white silence is settling outside on a cold winter mornng. I’m guessing about two inches so far, atop the eight or so that remain from last week’s storm. The above is from Intellicast, my fave new online weather toy. Talked to a friend in San Diego last night. He was taking a break… Continue reading
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Erik Cecil Unleashed
My pal Erik Cecil, one of the smartest and most energetic attorneys I’ve ever known (as well as a deeply insightful dude), is now at home on the blogging range as well as the foothills of the Front Range, where he and his large family (including large dogs) live. Welcome him abroad. Continue reading
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Following USA1549
Afterposts on USA1549 (more popularly, just 1549)… Bio of the pilot, Chesley B. Sullenberger, aka “Sully”, the captain of flight USA1549 yesterday afternoon. Via TheSmokingGun. Charles Bremer, pilot and editor for the London Times, on the flight. Includes interesting background, such as why Airbuses can float “in the unlikely event of a water landing”. Expect… Continue reading
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USA1549 down but not out
That’s almost as far as it got. From Twitter search: Trending topics: Hudson River, Charlotte, Shorty Awards Finals, A US Airways, New York’s Hudson, LaGuardia, USAirways, Plane, MSNBC, Manhattan From FlightAware: FLIGHTAWARE BREAKING NEWS US Airways flight #1549 (an Airbus A320) from New York, NY (LGA) to Charlotte, NC (CLT) crashed into the Hudson River… Continue reading
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Becauses
JP Rangaswami: There’s a big Because Effect coming along in music. Artists are going to make more money because of music rather than with music, although they will continue to make money with music. The path to that may just start here. Continue reading
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All of Fame
So Jim Rice made the hall of fame after fifteen years of falling short in the voting. Here’s more from a report on WBUR. Rice was a “borderline” candidate, a sub-obvious selection. There are a lot of those. Among those I’ve cared about (and there are few), Brett Butler comes to mind. I cared about… Continue reading
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Faustian bargaining
Lots of folks in China get around the Great Chinese Firewall by using circumvention tools. But at what risk? That’s one of the biggest questions raised by Hal Roberts in this post here. Seems the Global Internet Freedom Consortium, or GIFC, which offers this laudable PR… GIF Offers China-Based Reporters Software to Break Through Internet… Continue reading
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Adding up the aftermath
Stephen Lewis was wise to turn down the opportunity to participate in a Ponzi scheme in a time and place where the downside of failure was absolute. The lesson: Fast-forward a decade to 2005, Bulgaria is about to enter the European Union and bank and insurance moguls whose memories are the only remaining links… Continue reading
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Cluecade
Most books come and go. Others stay — meaning that you’re likely to find them in most bookstores. Big ones, anyway. Quotable books have staying power. Especially the quotable ones that express unattainable ideals. The Cluetrain Manifesto, it turns out, is one of those. The book hit the streets in January 2000, just in time,… Continue reading
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Sad news
Rest in peace Roland Piquepaille is the final post on Roland’s blog. It’s by Larry Digman, who also posted notices for Russell Shaw and Marc Orchant when those two also passed. My sympathies to Larry as well. I barely knew Roland. Our paths crossed from time to time. (Such as here.) But he was a… Continue reading
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Getting to the bottom of what happened at the top
Investigating the Financial Crisis and My Passion for Borsalino Hats is an outstanding post by Stephen Lewis — one that characteristically combines several things I didn’t know, starting with a helpful suggestion for incoming administration: a sweeping inquest into the twin housing and stock market crashes to create both the intellectual context and the political… Continue reading
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Getting serious
I love Dave Winer’s new apporach to high-substance/reduced noise tweeting. I say more about that in Screw popularity. Just make yourself useful. Also, I’m on one short list for Surgeon General. Continue reading
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Tune in, Turn on, Say nice things
So now my dream app is ready on the iPhone. It’s just the beginning of What It Will Be, but it’s highly useful. If you have an iPhone, go there and check it out. It’s free. As you see here, I’m involved, through the Berkman Center, which is collaborating with PRX, which is working under… Continue reading
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Seeing how ugly it can get
Since I’m an aviation freak, I’m also a weather freak. I remember committing to getting my first color TV, back in the mid-70s, because I wanted to see color radar, which at that time was carried by only one TV station we could get from Chapel Hill: WFMY/Channel 2 in Greensboro. These days TV stations… Continue reading
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Email amnesia recovery
The good news is that I had a backup for my email, which suffered some kind of data corruption on Monday. The bad news is that the last backup was December 14, before I went to California (my backup drive is here in Boston, and I haven’t got S3 backup set up yet). Not everything… Continue reading
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Best Breakfast On Earth
That might be an overstatement, but it’s how we felt yesterday after four days of efforts to surmount canceled and delayed flights finallydelivered us back to Boston: our alt.home sweet home. So we went out to breakfast at a new place for us: the plainly named Neighborhood Restaurant & Bakery, in Somerville. My wife and… Continue reading