October 2007
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Future to Newspapers: Jump in the river
Here’s the problem with most news: it isn’t. It’s olds. It happened hours ago, or last night, or yesterday, or last month, or before whenever the deadline was in the news organization’s current “news cycle”. It’s not now. Unless, of course, it’s been fed out through syndication and picked up by a news reader or Continue reading
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Nice Vue
To Andria Krewson at Global Vue for the kudos. Good stuff there, btw. Also at Andria’s other blog. Continue reading
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Aiding asses at altitude
Just got turned on to SeatExpert.com, which competes with SeatGuru.com, a service I use all the time. Both are exceptionally helpful for choosing seats on airplanes. Always keep one or both open when you choose seats on your booked flights. Not long ago I had to change flight plans while in the United Red Carpet Continue reading
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Winning at the low jump
Kevin Marks: In the Blogosphere, like Lake Woebegon, everyone really is above average. Continue reading
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Getting worse before it gets worse again
China is reportedly blocking and redirecting queries of Google Blogsearch, Yahoo and other search sites, all to its own Baidu site. While one can see this in political or economic terms, it’s much deeper and sadder than that. There has long been a trend toward seeing the Net as a plumbing system for “content” all Continue reading
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Yes and know
Stuart Henshall asks, Are Many Blogging? He suggests one reason some may be blogging less is that “You are no longer on Doc’s blogroll”. ouch. Anyway, I’m blogging more today, because … I don’t know. Just a lot of spillover from other work, mostly. On the whole, however, I’m blogging less. I think that’s because Continue reading
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Live, though dead
James Brown and Luciano Pavarotti. Thanks to Jim Thompson for the lead. Continue reading
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Brother, here art thou
Every family has a black sheep. That’s what Bill Burton, an Obama spokesman, said after discovering that Lynne Cheney revealed that Barack and Dick are 8th cousins. Continue reading
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Watch your money
From TechRepublican: Ron Paul’s supporters have provided a measure of radical transparency into his fundraising that would make most political operatives suffer heart failure. Going well beyond the now-passe end-of-quarter fundraising “bat,” the Paul campaign has set a public goal of $12 million raised for the quarter, posting their current total live on the Continue reading
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Candidate Q&A
On the Q side, the TechPresident folks have just launched 10Questions.com, with help from the The New York Times Editorial Board, MSNBC and a total of 40 sponsors. Fun to see that the first video question was posted by my old pal Ruby Sinreich. : On the answer side, here are the editors: Why Continue reading
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Those were the daze
Get that heap off the lawn, by Frank Paynter, begins with warm memories of waiting in a frozen parking lot at 2am for my dad to come and jump start our shitty ’52 Buick before someone froze to death. Continue reading
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Phoenix by the Sea
Many interesting news efforts rise from the ashes of the News-Press, even as that local institution continues burning down (approaching the cremain stage on an asymptotic curve). The latest is Noozhawk, an effort by Bill MacFadyen, who left the NP many years ago, and put other instructive newspaper experiences under his belt in the meantime. Continue reading
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Scary thought du jour
Tom at UrbanAgora: Folks, if every bit of data on everything is available, it will include ways of subverting the systems to cause events that will make 9/11 look like a Sunday picnic. Very shortly, the continued existence of civilization is going to depend on the good-will of script-kiddies. Read the whole thing. Read the Continue reading
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How cooperation works
Rocking talk on modeling cooperation being given right now by Oliver Goodenough here at the Berkman Center. Streaming live. Continue reading
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Trick as treat
If that pumpkin brings Steven King to mind, there’s a good reason. The artist (it says here) is Glenn Chadbourne, scary illustrator for the scary author. I know King lives in Maine (and is highly associated with the state), and now (since I just looked him up) see that Chadbourne is quite the Maine dude Continue reading
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Quote du jour
Zoli: our online network should reflect our real-life one, instead of being an inflated collection of data record Amen. Continue reading
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Flying hEyer
As Rick Segal reports, I’ve taken a board seat with PlanetEye, a Toronto-based company in the travel space. (One which, as many of you know, I practically live in.) I’m equally excited and flattered to be there, and look forward to helping the PlanetEye bring the Intention Economy to an industry that desperately needs it. Continue reading
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Fair and Balanced. Really.
I like The Issue. Today’s is Engineering the Planet. Continue reading
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Knight Knews
I always thought that both WNEW and KNEW (radio stations in New York and San Francisco, respectively) should have been, given their call letters, news stations. Anyway, that thought came to mind again when I wrote the headline above for the news below… It’s the last day to apply for a Knight News Grant. I Continue reading