The home construction project continues, but I have four consecutive days at home, to do with as I please. Then next week is the craziest yet, but with any luck it'll be the end the crazyness. The problem is rain. It just keeps coming. And it's depressing. The summer without the summer. Yeah I can go swimming most days, but it's almost never sunny and it seems it's raining every day. Welcome to the all-new Planet Earth. We have it easy here in the northeastern US, relatively speaking. Outrageous heat in the west where summer is usually cool. The fires in Maui, a place you'd never think would be inundated with fire. Our industrial world had a good run, now that's over. It's only going to get worse from here. What will we do? Hell if I know. #

I had a good podcast chat with Andrew Keen on Tuesday from a phone booth at a local co-working place. We talked about the technological beginnings of blogging, RSS and podcasting. I wasn't expecting it to be so good. I wanted to do this with Andrew because I had not respected his books in the 00s that said the online world we were creating wasn't going to be too great. I thought of course here's a guy trying to make a buck by invalidating our hard and successful work. Well it turned out Andrew had it right -- and so did we. There's no new technology that can't be abused or have serious downsides. That doesn't mean we shouldn't do it, because the flipside is also true. The answers to our problems can be found in the new tech. We tend to discount the good things that came from online computer tech and there are many. I don't do many interviews, but I like to do them with old friends like Guy Kawasaki and with people who I didn't respect well enough in the past, like Andrew, to try to make amends. It was a good show. #

On the other hand, I still totally agree, with the quick review I did of his first book, here, in 2007.#