Monday, August 07, 2006

Trying to find a good summary of Apple's announcements. Here's what I've discerned: 1. A new Mac desktop with Intel processors. 2. A new version of the operating system. For me it's the first new version of the OS since I became a Mac user again in Sept of last year. The features I've seen so far don't excite me. But then when has an operating system ever had anything in it to get excited about?  

Ed Cone: "BusinessWeek's best bet is to say, 'We goofed. We wrote an interesting article about an interesting subject, but we made a pretty bad mistake in the way we headlined the story.'" 

Scott Rosenberg: "The magazine can either publish a correction, which I doubt it will ever do, or live with the diminished credibility it deserves." 

Movie: Betsy Devine speaking at Wikimania yesterday. 

Staci Kramer reports on MyWSJ, which is a Netscape-like page layout style aggregator for RSS. Niall Kennedy has some technical details. Screen shot. 

Doc Searls is taking live notes in OPML for Dan Gillmor's citizen journalism conference. You can find the HTML renderings here. It's also available in HTML for those who can't easily browse OPML. 

Mike Kowalchik's report on our meetup, podcast and dinner in Cambridge last night. This morning I'm at the Ambassador Club at Logan waiting to fly back to the Bay Area. Great time on the east coast now let's switch back to Pacific time!