Sunday, April 18, 2004

Good news from my now much closer friend Adam in Amsterdam. Everything worked out great, Patricia is getting good medical care, Ole filled in for Adam, and Barlow led a discussion about emotions & weblogs. Now I'm feeling quite emotional. I have to go for a walk to get un feklempt. Talk among yourselves.  

Dowbrigade: "In addition to those on-site in Pound 201, there were on-line interventions from bloggers in Holland, Germany, China, Korea, Japan and Canada." 

John Palfrey: "Official thanks from the Berkman Center at HLS to all those who traveled from near and far to spend a Saturday with us at BC II." 

Andrew: "Who'd have guessed that MIT would find itself competing for thought leadership on the Internet with that liberal arts school up the river? Way to go, Berkman." 

Yesterday I pointed to PhoneBlogger because it was mentioned at the Fat Man Sings session at the conference, and little did I know that it doesn't work with Radio. The author of the program explains. The reason we worked on a common API is so that this wouldn't happen.  

Rogers explains why he is so geeked by Radio. 

I didn't know that Kim Polese is on the board of Technorati.  

I found out yesterday at John Perry Barlow's impromptu "Emotional Life of a Weblog" session that Scripting News pisses people off sometimes. I found this surprising. Hehe. Sorry.  

It's a thrill to point to someone who writes about you in a language you don't understand. 

Two years ago today: "Lieff, Cabraser, Heimann & Bernstein. TIAA Cref. Archer-Daniels-Midland. Sudexo Marriot. The Catherine T and John D Macarthur Foundation." 

There was a time when the tools worked together. Now they don't.  

Thanks to all the discussion leaders at BloggerCon II. The sessions were lively, interesting, kept moving, the issues were exposed, in an interesting way, no one fell asleep. Thanks to Bob Doyle and his colleagues at Sky Builders for providing the video webcast and hardware loans. Thanks to the people who donated cash that paid for the drinks and snacks. Thanks to John Perry Barlow, Philip Greenspun and Ole Eichorn for serving on short notice. Thanks to the 100 or so no-shows, without them there was just barely enough room for everyone who was here. The one major glitch was the air conditioning, but as far as I know, even though it was hot in every room, we all survived, no worse for the wear and tear. It worked! Now it's sunrise in Cambridge, I'm eating breakfast with some friends at 8AM, and am a free man. Next stop Europe. 

I didn't post it.