Talk about being out of the loop: I missed PhoneCon 1876 [scroll to March 8 post]. I guess Jeneane’s invitation fell off
the Pony Express horse. (Sure hope her servicemark had lapsed, when I touted PhonerCon1903,
back last November.) Ms. Sessum focused on the “the emerging power of the Telephone as a
tool to shape democracy, our flour and cotton mills, and our understanding of Rhode Islanders.”
“phonecon la”
Jeneane could not have possibly foreseen the usefulness and revolutionary serendipity of the
telephone — celebrated here by haiku poets, each of whom is indeed, a proud telephone user:
a balloon hangs
from the telephone line
their missing son
her little feet
on the telephone book
piano practice
a gray cubicle –
cicada songs
through a speaker phone
fall migration
the phone lines busy
gathering birds
The Heron’s Nest V:1 (Jan 2003)
cell phone beeps
she takes off her shoes
at the airport checkpoint
Deborah P. Kolodji
by dagosan:
in his cave –
dial-up modem
blocks all calls
[Nov 8, 2004]
When someone calls something a “no-brainer,” is it because they don’t want to think about
it any more, or because they don’t want you to think about it? Torque to me, baby!
D&E is down on the parsing of “upon” by a California court.
We voiced some doubt the other day about TaxProf Blog‘s “visitor” totals. But,
we have no doubt that there is a lot of interesting stuff on that weblog. E.g., see
“OECD Releases New Data on Taxes as Percentage of GDP” and
“Red States Feed at Federal Trough, Blue States Supply the Feed”
Evan Schaeffer has a tutorial on how to leave a comment.
Sarni might also want to check out this BloggerCon 3 list of things webloggers value:
Things we value:
Democracy, Non-exclusivity, Attribution.Transparency – disclosure, Innovation
Personalization, Accessibility, Honesty, Creativity, Knowing who people are
Editorial Independence, Connectedness, Anonymity
Things we devalue:
Power law economics, Lack of Attribution, Anonymity, Wuffie-hoarding
Links for money
Thank you for the link to the BloggerCon website – when I said that perhaps I was looking in the wrong places on the net, it was not a facetious comment masking the assumption that I *did* know everything on the topic, but rather an acknowledgement that I am rather set in my surfing ways and don’t always find my way to sites like this.
Cheers. :-)
Comment by sarni — November 8, 2004 @ 7:52 pm
Hi, Sarni, thanks for stopping by. I didn’t think you were being facetious or presumptuous. I was a little bemused, however, as I had spent the past couple days poking fun at webloggers who seem to take the anthropolical/societal significance of weblogging a tiny bit too seriously.
I just fixed the link to PhoneCon 1876 and to its logo, if you tried them and were disappointed. Sorry for any inconvenience.
If you haven’t seen the Perseus White Paper — The Blogging Iceberg — from last Fall, I’d suggest checking it out. Jay Rosen’s post today giving his reaction to BloggerCon III is also worth a look.
Comment by David Giacalone — November 8, 2004 @ 10:45 pm