Monday, January 02, 2006

Morning Coffee Notes interview with John Palfrey, founder of toptensources.com, and director of Berkman Center. 

Forecast: Snow, snow and snow! 

Random thoughts on a geek dinner in Cambridge.. 

Very nice Flash-based OPML editor from Kosso. 

Andy Baker: "Without River of News I might as well read blogs in a browser." That's almost true, and I used to think so too. The mail-reader type RSS reader has a few advantages over a web browser for reading blog and news paper feeds. 1. You can read offline. 2. If it's in an emailer you can easily forward posts to friends via email. 2. You see the last 100 items (configurable) where the blog might only show you 5 when viewed in a web browser. And it has an advantage over River of News, for blogs where you want to be sure not to miss a single post even if you're online intermittently. Some people need both forms of readers. It's like the difference between a spreadsheet and database. Both are good for numbers, but they're good for different things.  

I don't share Weinberger's enthusiasm for Wikipedia. I suppose I might feel differently if the pages about me and my work weren't battlegrounds.  

Guy Kawasaki has a new blog. I'm subscribed.  

It's 9:30 by my clock, I haven't had dinner, and I'm hungry and not even slightly sleepy but this town is shut tight.  

Now this is a great pic of Tara. 

A picture for the family album. Patrick Scoble with Doug Engelbart.