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 In mid-June, Megnut wrote a definitive piece entitled What We're Doing When We Blog. So many others skim the surface and make superficial statements about weblogs, but miss that there is something going on both at a techical level, and at a democracy and citizenship level. Weblogs are deceptively simple and not easy to grasp. They give a voice to people with big experience. Lots more to say about this.  I got a great political action plan from an anonymous wage slave in the entertainment industry. Well worth reading, contains some stimulating thoughts. Thanks! Don Larson sent a letter to his Congressperson. Eric Norlin is getting pounded by wiener boys. Our best wishes to Eric. I find wearing garlic wards them off.  Remember what it was like being a teen, looking for role models, trying on other people's lives as one might try on a shirt, hat, or pair of sunglasses. It's really interesting to watch that process, in real-time, on young Aaron Swartz's weblog. He's self-aware as he tries on Richard Stallman's life. "How human Stallman is. As people asked him long questions he would practice his dance steps. He'd make jokes about everything. I could really see being him." The rest of the post is interesting too. I totally don't get how writing software for users and not giving it all away is anti-freedom, but that's not the point of this link. Live and let live. To each his own. Big wheel keep on turning. Mo Nickles: "Safire also has a tendency to 'crown' etymologies (as opposed to coin): he'll claim one as the source of a word or phrase, rather than the likely source." SJ Merc: Ailing valley searches its soul. Let's stop feeling sorry for ourselves. We're still the technology capital. Let's make some products and have fun. The 90s really sucked here. We lost our way. It was better in the 80s, before our leaders became rock stars. Make technology products. NY Times: Venture Capitalists Are Taking the Gloves Off. What a bunch of losers. The VCs should be apologizing for wrecking the high tech business, instead they're getting tough. Route around them. Dan Gillmor: "If you or I asked Congress for permission to legally hack other people's computers, we'd be laughed off Capitol Hill. Then we'd be investigated by the FBI and every other agency concerned with criminal violations of privacy and security." Steve Michel: "Sign me up, I'll contribute whatever I can." Did you watch the miner's rescue last night? What a surprise. CNN was betting on one of two unhappy endings. 1. They'd all be dead; or 2. There would be nothing there. What a surprise, they were all there, alive and in good health, rescued quickly and in the hospital recovering. A real-life story where everything went right. Ye-hi. NY Times: "Each emerging miner, gleaming wet and grimy, was ordered by medical workers to lie down on a stretcher, even if he felt like dancing." On this day two years ago Napster got a reprieve. Want to see what happy looks like on the Web? Check it out. |
 
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