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Today will be a lightpost day. I'm going down to Santa Clara to catch the schmooze at O'Reilly's Emerging Technology conference. I'll be the guy with the Sony Vaio looking for a power outlet.  With Simon Fell's new widget you can post to Blogger using Microsoft Word. Jake offers a glimpse of the new blogroll editor he's been working on. And a tease.  Karl Dubost, Peter Gallagher, Russell Beattie, Paolo Valdemarin, Mark Gallagher enter the design-a-slide-template sweepstakes. Adam Curry is covering the Dutch election today. Jenny the Librarian on Left-vs-Right-Brain Blogging. A PR firm with a weblog. Expect to see lots more of this. Great dinner last night! Paul Prescod, the evangelist for REST. My old college buddy Sandy Wilbourn. Bill Humphries, the More Like This guy. Scoble. Scott Mace. Zooko and lots of ex-Open Cola guys, incl Joey and his accordian. And the blogging stars, Doc Searls and young Wes Felter and even younger Aaron Swarts. Wes is designing chips now. Excellent. Hey they even got me to go into the Apple store on University Ave. I had to get out of there quickly. Too clean.  Fortune has a virtually content-free article about the non-faceoff between Hollywood and Silicon Valley. Steve Jobs is particularly clueless (assuming he actually said what he's quoted as saying, and that the context wasn't designed to make him look like an idiot). But the Hollywood guys come off even worse, and Fortune even dumber than that. I loved this quote. "So what we have here is a game of chicken. Unless somebody flinches, both sides stand to lose." Both sides? They forgot the users. If Silicon Valley could somehow give Hollywood what they want (it can't) the users would just get their technology from somewhere else. As long as we have a First Amendment in the US, they can't stop the Internet. That, by the way, allows me to close the loop on the lies Bill Gates tells in court. So far the courts have been pretty good, but not perfect, at protecting our freedoms. That Gates goes to court and lies, brazenly, says to me that he's not on the right side. With the executive and legislative branches of the US government acting so irresponsibly, the only thing keeping us from total fascism in the service of Eisner is the court system. Respect it Bill. It's good for us. Cory Doctorow explains why power strips are an Emerging Technology. Werblog: "After taking off about a week to be with my new son, I'm now back at work. Give me a little time for active posts to resume on the Werblog, since I've got a whole lotta catching up to do." Macrobyte: Transport Layer Security version 0.2.4. NY Times: "The ABC network, which had a precipitous decline in its prime-time ratings this season.." I must be brainwashed because I got defensive reading that sentence. "Oh sure blame it on Napster." Well the article doesn't blame it on Napster. Good for Eisner, who owns ABC, for not running to Congress to solve all his problems. |
 
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