Sunday, December 18, 2005

Continuing the discussion on blogging tools interop, a commonly supported export format is an important first step, but it is not enough. 

Betsy Devine: "Isn't it real news that Bush's top guy in New England was guilty of two felonies arising from an innovative technological effort to cheat NH voters out of an honest election?" 

This is an important New Orleans picture, although it hardly looks so. The levees still leak, after Katrina. I'm pretty sure they didn't leak before. 

Verdict on the video iPod -- hmmm -- not so much fun as I thought. Watching movies on such a small screen is hard on the eyes. And it's not easy to hold it steady on an airplane, where a laptop can be placed on the tray, you have to hold the iPod in the air for long periods, which is uncomfortable. And, where you thought it would shine, battery life, it's really no better than a laptop. Video is video, and just because the screen is small, well, so is the battery. Net-net, iPods are nice for audio, unproven for video. I still love Rocketboom though.  

Michael Parekh: "This was like having a fire and losing stuff in your home or office, and realizing you didn't make copies of important stuff." 

FEMA Help Desk: "The answer is no!" 

Rex Hammock is learning from Mark Cuban. 

The Wikipedia article about unconference gives me credit for coining the the term, but if they read my piece about it, which they link to, they'd see that I credit Lenn Pryor with coining the term. This is just plain sloppy, if you were grading an undergraduate's report and he or she made this mistake, what grade would you give? 

They also list Foo Camp as an unconference. I don't think so. One of the hallmarks of unconferences is that they are unrestrictive. It's so totally opposite to the spirit of unconferences to make one invite-only. Where did they get the idea that Foo Camp is an unconference? What's their source on that? 

Net-net: Camps are not unconferences.