Posted in Economics and cybenetics on Apr 20th, 2004 Comments Off
Betsy has a great summary
of the BloggerCon II International discussion, that provides a flavor
of the proceedings. She captures the richness that was provided
by overseas bloggers who were on the IRC chat channel and were
watching/listening to the session, and participating in realtime.
Posted in Presidential politics on Apr 20th, 2004 Comments Off
Here is an interesting response by a Korean to Mitch Kapor’s post on net politics in Korea, as well as my comment and two others:
My opinion, as being a Korean myself, is that people shouldn’t
overestimate the effects of the net on politics in korea..at least not
yet.
I couldn’t say that the net didn’t have influence on [...]
Posted in Economics and cybenetics on Apr 19th, 2004 Comments Off
Dan Gilmore called my attention today to Mitch Kapor’s raising of hope regarding the
political potential of the net–and rightly focusing on South Korea.
And Rebecca McKinnon has been helping us at Berkman understand Korea,
as well as formulate a second superpower agenda to deepen links across the world that effect change in society and in politics. Thanks, [...]
Posted in Economics and cybenetics on Apr 18th, 2004 Comments Off
BloggerCon II was terrific–better than the first, because there were
no panels..rather, there were rooms with leaders, and there was lots of
good discussion among a crew of committed, funny, insightful, and
creative folks..
Very very good was Rebecca McKinnon’s discussion on Blogging across the world (this is not quite the righ title, but more or less fits).
One [...]
Posted in Economics and cybenetics on Apr 18th, 2004 Comments Off
Many of you know Boris Anthony–wonderful guy and Citizen of the World
reaching out from his meat space home base in Montreal..Here is Boris’
slightly cosmic but thoroughly enjoyable and insightful response to my
previous post on personal television networks. Boris is in Japan right now, btw, hanging out with
Joi Ito and other friends..
From: Boris Anthony
Date: Sun Apr [...]
Posted in Economics and cybenetics on Apr 16th, 2004 Comments Off
This afternoon Dave Winer and I were talking and he told me about his
coinage of the term “Personal Television Networks”–PTNs.
What are they? Think: what the personal computer was to the
mainframe computer, personal television networks are to the current
behemoth networks.
To find out more, come to BloggerCon II on Saturday. Adam Curry, Andrew Grumet, and Dave [...]
Posted in Presidential politics on Apr 13th, 2004 Comments Off
Well, will this radio network
be the popularizer of Internet radio? We’ll see. What we
need now is a daily RSS feed of Al Franken’s show (noon to three each
afternoon) into my iPod..
Posted in Personal life, love and laughs on Apr 12th, 2004 Comments Off
The rap Easter bunny..
Posted in Personal life, love and laughs on Apr 11th, 2004 Comments Off
Easter is my favorite holiday. Muslim, Jew, Buddhist,
Christian–New Age and Other–this can be a very unifying time.
Here west of Boston it is still cool to cold, but a few buds are
showing their heads above last year’s grasses…
Love to you all, Jim
Posted in Presidential politics on Apr 10th, 2004 Comments Off
Has everyone seen this but me?