Jim Moore’s blog: Innovation, Strategy, Public Policy

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[note: Alexa does not provide a dedicated chart for Yahoo News. 
Yahoo News is 4% of Yahoo.com total, or about 12,000 Daily Reach
(per million), which puts it above the New York Times,
which has a 7,715 three month average.  The Times is used as a
shared reference below.  Both Yahoo News and
the New York Times run about half the traffic of the BBC and CNN.]

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 http://www.youtube.com/

Seattle Mind Camp mini site.

This mini site is based on an opml file of participants in a seminal
Web 2.0 conclave.  This file is hosted by Dave Winer in his OPML-roll.  Just for fun I pasted the list into OPMLworkstation, validated and save it, clicked “browse” and generated this mini site.

Now this is a product category the demands a TopTenSources review…

or better yet, an article in Make magazine..

Sean looks at it..

Sean loves it..

My brother Charlie just emailed from Casper, Wyoming, in response to my blog:

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Brrrrr!  I’m off to try to drive into Cambridge.  We have at least a foot here now.

It is with great pleasure that I share this news.  John is a terrific guy, a prolific blogger, and a genuine leader in the field of Internet Law as well as the Web 2.0 revolution.

What Terry Fisher and the others don’t say is that this
appointment is to the FIRST Clinical Professorship of Law at Harvard
Law School. so this represents an institutional accomplishment for the
law school, as well as a personal one for John and a departmental one
for the Berkman Center for Internet & Society.

Actually, this is also an accomplishment for bloggers, given
that John is either the first or one of the first serious bloggers to
become a full member of the faculty.

Date: 11/19/2005
From: “William Fisher” tfisher@law.harvard.edu>
Subject: [staff] John Palfrey

To all Berkman Center staff and fellows:

On
Thursday, the law school faculty voted to appoint John Palfrey as a
Clinical Professor of Law.  It’s a rather extraordinary
accomplishment, especially for someone so early in his career.
Extraordinary, but richly deserved.  I hope you will all join us
in offering John congratulations — and best wishes in his new position.

Terry Fisher
Charlie Nesson
Jonathan Zittrain

My brother Charles lives out west.  If you eat meat, you gotta
respect folks who really eat “free range”–and elk reportedly taste
great.  This one took days to carry out, in pieces.

Somehow I’ve lost touch with an old friend, and he seems to have slipped under the Google radar as well, unless by some weird trick of my aging mind I am miss-spelling his name (shame if I am).  He is an awesome, fun, smart guy, last I saw him was at a protest march on against the Sudan genocide, the day of Kofi Annan’s commencement speech at Harvard–more than a year ago.

If you are out there David, I’d love to hear from you! Anyone with info please write to me at websuperservices@yahoo.com

Thanks, bloggosphere members! I will report whether this works (might try Craig’s list too, and compare results..)

Hi Dave, happy birthday!  Here is my little link
to add  to the party.  All the tributes inspire me to tell my
own brief tale of Dave’s influence on me.  I started blogging on
March 31, 2003 when I walked into the Berkman Center at Harvard with a
paper I’d written at white heat, The Second Superpower Rears its
Beautiful Head.  I showed it to Dave and he said, hey, you should
put this up on the web, but only if you also start a blog.  Dave
had just launched a free blogging service at Harvard, and was busy
evangelizing blogging in the community.  I hemmed and hawed and
Dave wouldn’t let me off the hock. He sat me down and got me
going–right then and there–and the result has been stupendous. 
Free speech made operational.  Life direction changed. Thanks Dave.

In the summer of 2003 I volunteered for the Dean campaign up in
Burlington, going back and forth to Cambridge and always checking in
for advice with Dave.  Dave in the meantime was busy pushing Chris
Lydon and inventing podcasting, while they both covered the
presidential primary in New Hampshire.  In the fall, Dave was
pushing presidential bloggers, and pressing us in the Dean campaign (I
had become Director of Internet and Information Services) to open up a
free national blogging service. He was urging us to use some of the
money we were collecting on the web to give back to the web
community.  I wish we had.  We pulled in $30m and only
invested $1.1m in the web.  If we had taken another half million
and set up a free blog farm, we might have been MSN Spaces, two years
ahead!  As the campaign tightened and the Democratic establishment
trained their sites on us, Dave came up to Burlington to help
out.  He wrote code, cajolled, argued, and most of all
inspired.  Thanks again, Dave.

When the media companies began to wonder whether to join in the RSS
revolution, Dave focused on the New York Times. I believe that Dave’s
efforts are the single most important reason the Times decided to put
out feeds.  And as the Times went, so did the other major media
companies. Thanks again, Dave.