Sunday, December 19, 2004

I'm on the road again and lovin it. Ideas flowing, there's a new Travelin Dave Morning Coffee Notes podcast for your listening pleasure. 

8/1/00: "Find me an inspiring musician who loves using and creating for the Internet. That's someone I want to work with. That could be our messiah, the Beatles of the new medium." 

Time's person of the year is George W Bush. 

Apple's Steve Jobs was chosen a Person Who Mattered. 

There are articles entitled Blogs Have Their Day and Ten Things We Learned About Blogs, but you have to be a Time subscriber to read them. 

BBC: Apple sues to stop product leaks. 

Adam had a weird OPML dream. 

NY Times: "The success of the web browser Firefox has shown that open-source software can move from back-office obscurity to your home, and to your parents', too." 

Wired News, 6/23/04: "What was decried as the death of a blog universe when Dave Winer shut down free blog host Weblogs.com turned out to be little more than a four-day server outage surrounded by a heck of a flame war." 

Comments on the times we live in 

A few comments on the times we live in. Kofi Annan is immersed in a scandal about skimming in the Oil For Food program. We learn that this isn't news, the scandal has been brewing for months, if not years. Then we see Annan meeting with Colin Powell and Condoleezza Rice. Before the Oil For Food eruption, Annan was skeptical about our presence in Iraq. How much you want to bet Annan now gets to work on the elections. Is he on board? Let's keep our eyes open.

Next comment. The red states have superior morals to the blue states, or so we hear. They go to church, they're evangelists, born again. Even though there are actually churches in the big cities (like Boston for example) they seem to hold the high ground. They have wholesome lives. Their kids finish school and live in good neighborhoods and have great kids who are evangelists and born again, etc etc. Yeah, except when they murder a stranger to forcefully remove a fetus from her womb while she's dying, and then claim it as her own. She's a good church-going Christian, her neighbors say, how could she do such a thing? Maybe it's time for all of us to relax a bit on who's superior, and realize we're Americans, all of us, and take the good with the not so good, and work together to solve some problems. I could just imagine Jerry Falwell on TV if that horrible thing had happened in Los Angeles or Dallas or St Louis.