Monday, November 8, 2004

Bridgings

One more reason why I want Larry Josephson to bring back Bridges on the podio: now more than ever we need conversations between liberals (excuse me, progressives) and conservatives.

That's what comes to mind reading FarmerBlog and BarlowFriendz.

Bonus Link: An mp3 of Larry Josephson honoring the great Joe Frank at the latter's Third Coast Award event. Here's Joe too. If you've never experienced Joe Frank, please do. No adjective covers it.

Imagine Jack Webb channeling Franz Kafka and you begin to get the idea.

Ask for neither forgiveness nor permission.

This is a fun picture by Renee Blodgett. I remember feeling like a moon among the outer planets. Nice to see Renee illustrate her blog postings with my photos. That's one good example of why this whole blog is in the public domain.

Bonus link #1: Renee's notes from the Making Money session at Bloggercon.

Bonus link #2: Terry Frazier's notes from lunch yesterday at JingJing

DinnerCon

Had dinner last night at Trader Vic's with Jay and Zack Rosen, Mary Hodder, Peter Hirshberg and Ernie Miller. At one piont Jay asked how Bloggercon went for us. Not sure what I said, but I felt like it was still going on. (Here's the large Technorati cosmos.)

We talked about conferences in general, and kinds of conferences we might like to start ourselves. I suggested that Jay and Zack start "RosenCon", saying the name sounded like a law firm. Jay said it sounded like a crime. There was general agreement that the name alone made it cool.

Trader Vic's food was quite good, by the way. Better than I expected. Historical note: It stands in the place where the most famous restaurant in Silicon Valley history — the red roadhouse called Dinah's Shack — stood for decades. Among many other ventures, Fairchild Semiconductor (which later spawned called Intel, plus countless other companies) was born at Dinah's.

Bonus link: Jay's thoughts about Bloggercon. One sample:

After BloggerCon I (Oct. 2003) I said: that was fun, a cult of bloggers. After BloggerCon II (Spring 2004) I said: that was fun, a community of bloggers. At BloggerCon III it felt like a nation of bloggers was getting it together (well, half a nation, the blue half.) Maybe BloggerCon IV should be global somehow.

Fee speech

Mark Cuban: It was bound to happen... and it did. I got fined for my comments in a previous blog entry regarding opening night in the NBA.

Tell Dan

BlogBloke: CBS Taunts the Blogosphere. Sez Frank Barnako of CBS MarketWatch, Political blogging is like Ralph Nader. Nobody pays attention.

The bloke replies,

Frankly, (pun intended) your mockery of the Blogosphere only belies your ignorance of the technology and its formidable capabilities. So have fun taunting us Frank, but mark my words. As more people get computers with internet connections and Blogs become even more popular, come next election we will be driving the news. Dinosaurs like you will find yourself left behind merely 'reporting' it or sitting on the sofa with the rest of them. Join us or be obsolete.

Look North

Spaceweather.com: Look for Auroras NOW. They're being spotted as far south as the Carolinas. Here's a gallery including shots taken last night (tonight as I write this, in California) in Utah, Ohio, Pennsylvania, North Carolina, Colorado, Maryland, Minnesota, Indiana, Wisconsin...

Lots of good links on The Aurora Page.

[Later...] Greg Hughes read the above and got to see the Northern Lights way down south in Oregon. He elaborates here, complete with a picture. These mean they were also visible south of there as well. When you're looking at an aurora, you're seeing curtains of light that may be up to a thousand miles high. That's why they can be visible far to the south of their positions (which constantly shift) over the Earth.