Wednesday, June 19, 2002
Bad nPR
See what happens when you run shit through Legal?
Quotage:
Among the take-aways from Garlic & Shots on Monday night:
Perl is Internet Yiddish — Yoz Grahame
A consumer is a slug with retail at one end and landfill at the other. — Matt Jones
The latter was from Matt's notebook, which featured a cartoon of a cute little slug. [Later...] Matt credits the line to Brenda Laurel, author of Utopian Entrepreneur.
Yoz has more notes here.
Also, a plug for Matt Webb's various blogs and sites. He was there too. We talked about the BeOS file system and other things. He knows lotsa shit.
New blog alert
Yoz Grahame's new blog is up, and he launches with a domestic view on my visit to London, among other things. Dig it.
Rewatch what you're doing
News flash: Introducingmonday.co.uk.
And as if that weren't enuf, there's this and this and this.
Exceeding the graspers
Kevin Marks: ... grasping the truth about digital media — that DRM destroys value, but copying doesn't.
That is way true shit. Read all about it.
Cast freely
The "final determination" on CARP is due late tomorrow. Thanks to Mary Wehmeier for the reminder.
Manifest breakage
Favorite Blogger's Manifesto line: "Every 5.8 seconds, someone posts a quote from Douglas Adams, Star Wars or Monty Python. Currently, 34.2% of the internet is made up of the word 'Ni'. My website will break the chain."
Ben Hammersley, my unwired host on Kynance Place in London, is one of the BM's authors.
Kuro5hin sells out — to readers
Wow: $26,465.22 so far today.
Join the billions who won't buy their schwag
There are no First, Second or Third Worlds. There is only Football.
On the plane yesterday, somewhere over Labrador, I was listening to Channel 9 audio. As with most United Airlines flights, that's the channel that carries cockpit conversation with other planes and air traffic control. The chatter is mostly arcane: "American 415, climb and maintain three five zero... contact Montreal Center at one thirty two two..." But at one point a pilot came on and said "For everybody interested, here are the football scores. South Korea, two, Italy, one... Turkey, one, Japan, zero..." Headphones on, I repeated the scores to my seatmate, a British executive with Aston-Martin. Astonishment spread.
Quote of the day
Rob Flickenger: I have stared at the sun, and for the sake of my sanity, will never again look directly at the consciousness of the online ueber-geek collective.
On the continuing end of government as usual
Matt Jones: Score one for the SmartMob. Terrific news, and an equally terrific working model for what we need more of on the other side of the pond. By the way, Matt was one of the blokes with whom I had a great time Monday night at Garlic & Shots in Soho. (If I have time later today I'll provide photographic evidence. Start cringing.)
You can hear it on the space
David Coursey has a good piece on satellite radio, a service for which he coincidentally also happens to be a source of program material.
Not related: Noise between stations. Discovered in Matt's blogroll.
The growing Googlestructure
Dave Sifry has a great new hack on his own blog, using SOAP and the Google API. Jonathan Peterson elaborates.
Music on the wall
Michael Fraase: Music piracy not hurting recording industry at all. A long piece, packed with links, facts, research and informed opinion. Dig it.
Bing! Tab...
Guess we'll indent.
Yawn! Ahhh.
Got a good night's sleep for the first time in a week. Almost forgot what that was like.