January 2008
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Where looks are everything
Las Vegas is a crazy place. Picturing CES shows some of that. There’s more to come. Just noticed I have 394 potos tagged lasvegas here and another 77 here. Continue reading
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The Snowden Effect
About three years ago I wrote about what I called The Snowball Effect. It included this quotage: Tell ya what. I’m fifty-seven years old, and I’ve been pushing large rocks for short distances up a lot of hills, for a long time. Now, with blogging, I get to roll snowballs down hills. Some don’t… Continue reading
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Let’s call it a twiver
I see Twitter as a River of Tweets, which are 140-character posts. The Twitter concept is Evan Williams’, Biz Stone’s and Jack Dorsey’s The river concept is Dave’s. I don’t know who named the tweet, but that’s what matters. Twitter is an easy thing to which anybody can add value. What makes Twitter so good… Continue reading
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A standout product
Years ago at a small event the give-away schwag was an insTand portable laptop tripod. We set it up once, couldn’t figure out how to break it down again, and put it the first of a series of storage closets. We’ve lived 9 places in 10 years, I’m sure it’s been transported between at least… Continue reading
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Safety at all costs
Mike Elgan says, The powers that be at the U.S. Department of Transportation’s Pipeline and Hazardous Materials Administration (PHSMA) have determined that batteries are a potential fire risk. As a result, you will no longer be allowed to bring spare batteries in your checked luggage. Batteries actually installed inside devices are OK, and… Continue reading
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Also in capsule, ointment and suppository form
Cluetrain, the slide show. Bonus list. Continue reading
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Thoughts on the writers strike
I watch little television, so I’ve felt comfortable ignoring the writers strike, which has been going on since November. But it’s hard to escape the strike’s effects while hanging out in Southern California, where writers of movies and TV shows are essential to what they call The Industry here. Not surprisingly, a search for a… Continue reading
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Conversations and Relationships
We’ve got the former, and also the latter, going on in the posts and comments here and here. Continue reading
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Teamwork at CES
Every year I go on a pilgrimage to CES, on behalf of Linux Journal. Some examples are here, here, here and here. This year I don’t want to work solo. I’d rather to do it as a team. Or as a social network. Or as a set of overlapping social networks. Or graphs. Or whatever… Continue reading
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The (n)ever ending story
Barney Brantingham, who probably holds the record for length of service as a Santa Barbara News-Press journalist (nearly half a century), gives us The Endless Stunner: News-Press Strife Goes Way Past Overtime. The money grafs: The refs call penalty after penalty: offside against Team McCaw: illegal procedures, ineligible receivers downfield, unsportsmanlike conduct, personal fouls, touchbacks… Continue reading
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Twixtonomy
Paul Downey: I see two kinds of Twitterers emerging: Twits and Twerps. Interesting read. Not sure if I’m either, both or neither. Continue reading
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Denial Retention Management defeated
Duncan Riley: Sony BMG will become the last of the big four record companies to offer music without the handicap of digital rights management, effectively putting the final nail into the music DRM coffin. News via BusinessWeek. Continue reading
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Better than any obituary
Required reading: Andy Olmstead’s posthumous post. Also here. Follow the other links too. In the (literal) end, there’s no better writing about what couldn’t be any worse. Continue reading
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Heavy weather
The SFO site is down, pretty much. It says, www.flysfo.com is currently unavailable. Please check back soon for our full site. Due to current weather conditions many flights are delayed. Please contact your airline for flight status. That’s about it. The FAA has every airport in the the southwest (California, Nevada, Arizona) marked… Continue reading
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Time to quit being batteries
To understand the matter of Scoble vs. Facebook, you need to understand the matter of Neo vs. Matrix. I explain in Dependence vs. Independence. That’s the choice. Over in Linux Journal. [Later…] Much more in the comments below both that post and this one. Continue reading
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Sunrise, Sunset.
That was the sunrise on New Year’s Day here in Santa Barbara. Here’s the sunset from the same day: Both were harbingers of sorts. As I write this we’re having the worst rain of the new year. Huge storm happening. Continue reading
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Who’s talking to (or with) whom
In CBS Video: Not In The Conversation, John Battelle writes, Close readers will notice a trend in 2008 here on Searchblog: I’ll be posting stuff about conversations, and in particular how companies are doing when it comes to having conversations with their key constituents. I want to look at it from the opposite side,… Continue reading
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Bush for Bloggers (if not vice versa)
David Ardia writes, In one of his last executive actions of the year, President Bush signed into law the “OPEN Government Act of 2007” on December 31, 2007. The Senate unanimously passed the reform bill earlier in December, and it passed the House of Representatives by voice vote on December 18. The Associated Press… Continue reading