Saturday, January 8, 2005

Wanted

The latest Gillmor Gang is up. The subject is CES, where I'm sitting right now with Gang guest Sam Whitmore whose Media Survey is looking for help I'm sure at least a few of you are more than qualified to provide:

We're looking for experts who can help SWMS syndicate audio content using RSS 2.0 feeds with enclosures. We'd like to syndicate two kinds of audio: paid content that require subscribers to enter a password before they can hear it; and free content that anyone can hear.

We'll part with cash for successful implementations.

Scoble was the other guest. Good show, too.

And free!

Fortune: Going Blog Wild.

When it drizzles

I love Paris. I mean, the real Paris.

Unfortunately, the real Paris is inconveniently located in France. So I have to make do with Paris, Las Vegas, which is a hotel that does a remarkable job, considering that it's a casino in an American desert, of resembling the real thing.

We stayed at the Paris until Thursday morning, when CES started and the rates went higher than the (real) Eiffel Tower. But if you're coming to town when there aren't several hundred thousand conventioneers doing the same thing, I recommend it.

Anyway, it's been raining here in Las Vegas, which is about as common as cacti blooming on the Champs-Elysees. Worse, connectivity for attendees at CES is both expensive and slow, if it works at all. I have other carps, but I'll save them for The Report at Linux Journal, which should show up early next week.

Loic: It is awful.