Friday, November 22, 2002
Blog the law
Denise Howell has lots of good stuff from the Revenge of the Blog conference at Yale. I don't want to point to anything more specific than her latest, just so we nail one link down to a specific item.
Lot of alpha blog types there. Besides Denise, there's Donna, Seth, Jeff, Glenn, Mickey, James, John... all the apostles, and the LawMemers too.
Hack your body
Just found this (now old) Atkins news on my email server (I'm working my way up to 3 days ago). Makes sense to me.
Still 25 pounds down and holding.
Tried it on my armpits and now I'm levitating
Remaking the points
Here's some nice blogback from Nick Richards, who liked what I said in my Linux Lunacy keynote, as well as what the four of us said in Cluetrain.
At one point Nick says This isn't your usual powerpoint slides put up on the web... Others have remarked positively about the way I use visuals in my talks. Here's an explanation of what I'm up to with that. It's old, but it still applies (even if you're not using PowerPoint, which I don't much anymore).
Dig wider
Marc Canter: Mobloging. I think the whole idea rocks.
And forgive me for being a broken record on this, but I think digital identity services are what we need to make it really rock in the big/right way.
Bonus link: Eric Norlin's Toward a Taxonomy of Trust. The dude keeps pressing onward, and brings back some good and useful responses.
[Later...] Another bonus: I'm told Bret Fausett says ICANN offers an answer. Don't knock it. Apply for the job.
And maybe sublimation and subsitution too
Steve MacLaughlin got to spend time with his mind on a solo drive from NC to IN, and came up with a bunch of interesting thoughts, including this one:
I have become convinced that all of the technology that allows people to be accessible anywhere, day or night, actually allows us to avoid being found in the first place. With cellphones, pages, PDAs, voicemail, email, and everything in-between you would think that you could track down people in a moments notice if you really need to. But in reality people either turn the things off, screen their calls, or let everything and everyone sit in voicemail limbo. Technology has allowed people to become even more passive aggressive than they already were to begin with. In the past you might actually have to confront someone or be confronted about a problem or issue, but now you can just pick and choose who gets to see the wizard.
Not sure about the passive aggressive thing... I think avoidance and intellectualization are equally operative defense mechanisms. In any case, a point well made.
Bonus link: Phones more disruptive than PC or Inrternet — Rheingold, by Andrew Orlowski in The Register. For some backstory, here's Howard's blog.
Email hell, cont'd
I've got some of the king's horses and men on the Humpty case, but he's still not together again.
Both my local geek friends and Norton tech support tell me to send the drive to DriveSavers, which estimates $1700 to recover my erased email files. I'm tempted.
By the way, there's good stuff over in the Discussion section, including Hanan's suggestion I use IMAP instead of POP (which I will after I get this thing solved, and I've moved to a new host as well).