Thursday, May 04, 2006

I had dinner tonight with Wes Boyd and Joan Blades of MoveOn.org. Lots of interesting ideas exchanged.  

I got the final answer from Hotwire. Sheraton sells rooms through Hotwire on nights they're oversold. Hotwire doesn't tell non-smokers they might end up in a smoking room. Net-net: they're keeping the money. I lost $384.85. Ouch. 

BetterBadNews deconstructs Guy "Who Gives a Shiitake" Kawasaki. 

RocketBoom is searchable. And that's not all. You can ask for (and they will provide) a RSS 2.0 feed with enclosures that tracks subjects of interest.  

On the latest Gillmor Gang podcast, Steve Gillmor says I don't link to him, and that's still true, but I can actually spell his name correctly, twice in one paragraph. How about that!  

Gizmodo: "I will keep telling people how much I love using my Mac while silently questioning my devotion to a company who would rather use the law than service to assuage their customers' complaints." 

Skypecasts are "live, moderated conversations allowing groups of up to 100 people from anywhere in the world to talk to one another." 

Chris Pirillo: "Face it, folks -- WinZip is dead." 

Next conference: Future In Review, May 14-16. 

Harvard Gazette: "Lots of people at Harvard Law School's Bloggership conference were busy tapping away on their laptops while the presenters spoke at the podium." 

There is something about Ponzi that brings out the love.