Saturday, March 8, 2003
Out of the tube
Until he gets his own blog together, CNN correspondent Kevin Sites is getting through on Boing Boing.
Meanwhile RageBoy is on a mission: Y'all got your duct tape in place though, right? So you should be OK. I'm only going after the evildoers.
Eve of Construction
While Dave is leaving his old house, we're rebuilding our new one:
The noise you're hearing in the background will be going on for the next six months. Then... I dunno. Maybe we'll probably start all over again. We do that.
Onward and outward
Moxie is taking a bit of a hiatus. This is not a melodramatic, "I'm quitting" post, rather an alert that posting might not be as frequent for the time being. Sounds like she's on some kind of good, purposeful track.
He's everywhere
Yesterday I went into the local computer shop, where a guy there asked me if I knew Joi. "You were at his party, right?"
This is in Santa Barbara, 350 miles away from the party, and 90 miles away from Los Angeles, another of Joi's many towns. The guy with the question? Zack. Nice guy. Works with eToy. I'd never met him before.
I'm tellin' ya, Joi gets around. Looking at his blog, Joi's recently had chow time with so many notables — Larry Page, Noah Glass, Larry Lessig, Stewart Alsop (looking thin and goatee'd) Woz — that I wonder if he even has time to snack.
Carrying on
Among the hundreds of mails Dr. Weinberger and I have received are offers to translate WoE into Hebrew, German, French, Italian and Portuguese (which Rainer Brockerhoff has already supplied). And maybe other languages as well. I'm losing track.
From the mailbag...
A 1995 letter from Al Gore calling for a versatile, general purpose infastructure with a "Jeffersonian" architecture that allows individuals to be producers as well as consumers of information, that enables "many to many" communication, and that provides a "general purpose" infrastructure capable of supporting a wide range of services, rather than one that is capable of providing one-way video delivery but not a broader range of services
Right arm, Al.
From the linkbag...
Denise Howell (whose blog has a whole new look)Elliot Noss, via Donna WentworthJeff "Hemos" BatesKevin WerbachGrabbingsandRoss MayfieldJoe Grossberg
Jordon Cooper Lasciate ogne speranza, foi ch'intrate... Brian LinseDana BlankenhornFloating PlanetMichael O'Connor Clarke (long and thoughtful one there)Rajesh JainJaquess.orgJuan Carlos CammaertSheila Lennon
Marc Canter sums up a whole lot of dialog, but I can't seem to find the permalink. Right now it's the top item.
In Plastic Bag Tom Coates writes about World of Ends and The Pentagon's New Map (fromthe current Esquire), which improbably associates connectedness with the international security state the current U.S. administration seems hellbent on building out. Sez Tom:
There seem to be some significant parallels that could be drawn between these two models of global scale-free networks that call into question the appropriateness of our ( my ) judgements about both globalisation as a democratic / capitalist process and the internet as a communications / publishing process. There's a collision here that I feel the need to investigate.
And this from a blogless reader:
My heat pump is the power company's consumer, I am the power company's customer.
My car is a consumer of the gas companies' products, I am a their customer.
My TV is a consumer of the cable company, I am the customer.
My heat pump, car, etc. cannot make choices. I can. Sometimes the only choice I have is to let my TV use the cable or not, but it is still my choice.
Being a customer is a choice, being a consumer is not a choice.
Making choices is at the heart of relationships.
Inanimate objects don't have relationships. People have relationships.
Ergo, things are consumers; people are customers.
I refuse to be reduced to a thing. An eyeball is a thing, unless it is in my head.
Right up Jerry's alley, I'd say.
Britt Blaser explains how Xpertweb is WoE-compliant, on all ten of WoE's "nutshell" points. Xpertweb is Britt's project. It's cool on a variety of grounds. Sez Britt, Surprisingly, I didn't really "get" Xpertweb until this morning.
Finally, a visual for World of Ends, courtesy of the brilliant and funny Kim Garretson at Pulp-It.com.
SCO no!
Yesterday SCO, a Linux community member, sued IBM for allegedly giving SCO intellectual property away to the Linux community.