Tuesday, August 17, 2004

BloggerCon III invitation is posted.  

How to register: 1. Become a member of the site. 2. Fill in the registration form. We have a blogroll of participants, in HTML and OPML.  

Random pictures from my recent Bay Area trip, including a pic of Steve Gillmor taken at our audio coffee clatch, Dave Jacobs, myself, classrooms at Stanford we'll use at BloggerCon, and people who came to eat spicy Scripting Noodles. My apologies to my food-mates, by the time we got to the restaurant I was totally talked out, having just led a three hour discussion of convention blogging before the dinner. Three hours of talking leaves me pretty well kaput. 

Of course there is no such thing as a perfect conflict-free date for a conference, and there are some other things happening on the chosen day, but I'm sure any other Saturday would be much worse, so barring any last-minute emergencies we're going to freeze the date for BloggerCon III at November 6. Don't buy your non-refundable plane tickets yet, and don't stop the mail delivery, but you could give a heads-up to the baby sitter, and definitely mark the calendar, in pencil.  

Political Wire: Astroturf is Back. 

CBS MW summary page for GOOG. 

Hacking Netflix reports on a geek who scrapes his queue into a feed.  

Cadenhead: Walter Cronkite spit in my Web. 

Gizmodo: "...the first legal music downloading price war." 

Big Dave Jacobs still needs a kidney. It's been a rough year in the Jacobs house, but The Big Guy is hanging in there. Anyway, after teaching his youngest kid to lip fart last week, I have to make amends by pointing to a walk for PKD that Dave's wife Amy is taking on September 19. She and Dave want to find a cure before any of their four kids, each of whom has a 50-50 chance of having the disease, gets symptomatic. You can help by sponsoring Amy's walk. 

Here's an example feed from RSSCalendar. Looks pretty good. 

BTW another nice thing about SP2 is no more popups. Really. They're gone. Nice. 

Wired: "Wired News will no longer capitalize the 'I' in internet." 

Buzz: "It will be 2-5 days before my power gets turned back on." 

Sun bids for the Unix users HP left behind.