Sunday, May 16, 2004

How to ping the Audio weblogs community. 

We've had a gentle preview of the heat of summer the last couple of weeks. First it gets really hot and humid, so you sweat like a pig with the slightest exertion. Then it cools down so you need to wear a sweater when you go out. The heat wave makes you appreciate the coolness of air conditioning, and then nature gives you all the free air conditioning you could want everywhere you go. This is a pattern that works all summer in Calif, but not in Boston. Soon it will get hot, and stay hot, without relief, day after miserable day. Until it's winter and then you do it all over again, Murphy-willing. 

I'll probably get some nasty mail about this, but iLaw should be renamed The Smart Babe Conference. The number of a drop-dead beautiful women was just amazing. And they're so smart! This is the conference I've been searching for all my life, the antidote to geek fests, which are fun too, in a completely non-babe way. Anyway, thanks for all the babes! 

Jeff Jarvis: "You can't be a software company and a service company under one roof, for you will inevitably end up competing with your customers." 

Adam Curry: "I've been tinkering today with RSS and BitTorrent." 

Daring Fireball: "Everyone loves bug fixes. Everyone loves performance improvements. But what people will pay for are features." 

Webmonkey, last year: "RSS gained traction among small developers years ago, because it's easy to code and simple to share. Today, RSS is gaining momentum with big commercial sites because the technology draws in a smart and growing audience." 

Reuters: "Same-sex couples will legally exchange vows on Monday when Massachusetts becomes the first U.S. state to allow gay marriage." 

John Robb: "I wish there was a mechanism in weblogging that allowed more collaborative editing." 

BBC: "US Defence Secretary Donald Rumsfeld has been accused of personally authorising a secret programme that encouraged abuse of Iraqi prisoners. An article in The New Yorker magazine says Mr Rumsfeld extended a programme already in use in Afghanistan. The operation encouraged coercion and sexual humiliation of Iraqi prisoners to gain intelligence, it says." 

New Yorker: "The roots of the Abu Ghraib prison scandal lie not in the criminal inclinations of a few Army reservists but in a decision, approved last year by Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld, to expand a highly secret operation."