Tuesday, April 20, 2004

David Cullen on Columbine: "Their vision was to create a nightmare so devastating and apocalyptic that the entire world would shudder at their power." Cullen explains how the story came to be on his Salon weblog. 

Shall we have a Scripting News dinner in Amsterdam? 

Lenn Pryor's report on BloggerCon. "It was the un-conference in many ways." 

Wired News report on BloggerCon. 

NY Times quotes Saudi officials saying they don't play politics with oil. Weblogs are famous for providing commentary on the news. Here's my opinion. "They're lying." 

AP: "Researchers found a serious security flaw that left core Internet technology vulnerable to hackers, prompting a secretive effort by international governments and industry experts in recent weeks to prevent global disruptions." 

Brent Simmons: "The next release of NetNewsWire is going to be a big upgrade." 

Tim O'Reilly: "I do own a small amount of Google stock." 

AP: "Just as consumers are beginning to get comfortable with their DVD players, electronics manufacturers are set to introduce next-generation discs that store more and would be harder to copy." 

NY Times: "Between January and mid-March this year, Americans spent $1.78 billion at the box office. But in the same period they spent $4.8 billion -- more than $3 billion more -- to buy and rent DVD's and videocassettes." 

The EFF is searching for a socially responsible technical director.  

So many people I didn't get to talk with, and conversations I heard about later that I wish had been on the schedule. The emotional life of weblogs will be a big one at the next conference. Barlow was the perfect discussion leader. There's a lot more to do there. We've been tiptoeing up to this one. AKMA's session on Sprituality last year, and Jeff Sharlet's on Religion this year were lead-ups. 

In 1999 Jakob Nielsen wondered if we were stuck with old browsers until 2003. It's even worse than it appears.