Wednesday, October 27, 2004

New Who

On the other Dan...

Standing here talking with Dan Farber, who just pointed me to this Morgan Stanley report by Mary Meeker. On a very cursory scan, she appears to be bullish on blogs. And RSS. I'd quote it if the @#$% .pdf text wasn't full of line breaks.

Congratulations, Dan!

Dan Gillmor Wins 2004 World Technology Award for Media & Journalism, it says, datelined today. The subhead continues,

Author of We the Media and San Jose Mercury News columnist honored for innovations in technology journalism.

I had breakfast with Dan this morning, and he modestly failed to mention it. So, a belated, and virtual, high five.

Bonus fact: Dan's blog is five years and one day old.

Pit stop

Thanks to folks who are letting me know there are problems at IT Garage. We're working on them.

Okay, they're fixed. It's safe to go back now.

Maybe now, in my lifetime, it finally will

I've got an iName. It's =searls. I got it from 2idi, the first among a new breed of company: identity brokers. I'll get some more iNames, but that's the first one I wanted to claim.

I believe what the guys at Identity Commons, xdi.org, Cordance, NeuStar (and other related companies and efforts, all independent, all working on grass roots, open source efforts) are up to will finally give us what I call The Fully Empowered Customer. For lack of that character, the dream of Networked Markets we wrote about in Cluetrain has not come to pass.

The Michael & Howard show

Wow: Howard Stern and Michael Powell on Ronn Owens' KGO show. Here's the story from the New York Post. Here's the Drudge Report. Here's Jeff Jarvis' (as usual, authoritative) report, including a transcript, with lots of links.

Blog and learn

Mark Carey announces The Blog Cooperative, my pubsub subscription told me today. It was only after typing the first half of the last sentence that I noticed that the post was from July 13 of this year. The post said

Blog Cooperatives are businesses jointly owned and operated by their members. BlogCoops are for-profit ventures that embrace emergent democracy as a means for governance and decision-making.

The purpose of the site is to generate discussion about the idea. I won't go into details here, since I have just completed 28 entries on the subject at http://www.blogcoop.com/. Please visit the site and join in the discussion.

The Blog Cooperative link now goes to Seeq, with the message "blogcoop.com is for sale." (Its Blogshares aren't doing so good, either.) Not sure what happened there, but I know failure often teaches more than success, and I salute Mark for trying. Also, I think the experience could be good fodder for the Making Money session at Bloggercon.

Bonus link: Blogging and Blog Ads, by Kieran at Crooked Timber.

Podcasting live

The Brian Lehrer Show on WNYC in New York will have a segment on podcasting this morning. Adam Curry is the scheduled guest. I believe the segment will run at 10:40 local time on both 93.9fm and 820am. It repeats at 1am on 820am. The stations are also live online with MP3 and Windows Media streams. The FM MP3 is here and the AM MP3 is here.

Bonus link: Podcasts introduce brave new radio world, in the Fort Wayne Journal Gazette. It's actually Susan Carpenter's piece from the Los Angeles Times, finding its way out to the rest of the newspaper world.