Wednesday, August 17, 2005

8:45PM Pacific: Arrived safely in Truckee, CA. 

Pics: Great Salt Lake, Bonneville Salt Flats, I-80 in Nevada. 

Michael Markman: "I started my computer marketing career at Apple, where we made a fetish of humanizing the language and look of technology. If Apple -- in the latest version of its browser -- has no problem supporting RSS under the name RSS, I take that as a reliable measure of the fact that the term RSS is safe for human consumption." 

Cameron gets it. "RSS is just what is commonly known." Bing! 

Forbes: The Rise of RSS. "Take a look at the online sites of any major media company. You will see hundreds of these icons offering RSS." 

Russell Beattie: "I must be a bozo!" Me too. 

Thanks to the guys at the front desk at the Fairfield Inn in Sparks for letting me find a hotel using their Internet. They offered me coffee and cookies and were very helpful and enthusiastic.  

Watch the myth that I am president of UserLand spread all over the place, because one reporter made a mistake, now it's being repeated. So much for the great fact-checking at professional publications.  

Today's a travel day. I'm headed west from Park City. and expect to get half-way to San Francisco tonight, stopping somewhere in mid-Nevada, and zooooming into the Bay Area sometime on Thursday afternoon. 

TechCrunch: "What a weekend great to be in the Bay Area." Amen! 

It is going to be a great weekend. My parents are visiting the Bay Area from NY. Maybe we'll do a podcast. And the doors of Bar Camp and the OPML Roadshow, both in the Bay Area, are wide open. I'll be at both. Maybe even host a geek dinner at my favorite Bay Area geek dinner restaurant? Yummy! 

PS: Exclusive events suck. Even so, I think we'll have one, but it'll be defined by the people who are not invited. Everyone else is welcome. It's just a joke. Pretty funny, eh? Hehe.