Sunday, February 27, 2005
Pointage
Two new posts at IT Garage: Brandjacking and Relating to Leverage. Here's an interesting comment in response to the first one, that unintentionally helps make the point of the second one.
Tailor-blogged
English Cut is the discreetly professional blog of Thomas Mahon, bespoke Saville Row tailor, London.
In an unrelated post, Hugh goes public as a Kottke micropatron. (You have to follow that link.) A Hugh Clugh:
Rule of thumb with taking-the-plunge-wonderful-insane projects: Figure out the ABSOLUTE MINUMUM amount of money you will need to earn in order to make the project viable. Now divide that number by twelve. That's usally how much you end up making.
Well, start out making, anyway. Ed McCabe, one of the best copywriters who ever lived (and who now lives doing something else), says I have no use for rules. They only rule out the possibility of brilliant exceptions.
One less
I just learned that Jef Raskin has died. Never met him, but always wanted to. Jef launched and named the Macintosh project at Apple. Dave writes, He struggled to see his vision implemented, and in the end it was a compromise. Raskin wanted computers to be radically simpler, not just evolutionarily simpler. The Macintosh, a project which he started at Apple, morphed when Steve Jobs took it over to become the evolutionary computer it is. Not sure who was right, but Raskin didn't live to see his vision implemented.
It was Jef who said,
Imagine if every Thursday your shoes exploded if you tied them the usual way. This happens to us all the time with computers, and nobody thinks of complaining.
No details from the majors yet. As of 12:05pm PST today, Technorati sees 157 posts, mostly (far as I can tell) pointing back to Digibarn as the first source. Google News has three items, two credtiting Digibarn, one — digital divide network — crediting Dave Burstein, who sent an email via Dave Farber's Interesting People list, which I get but don't read right away because I'm too busy hanging out on the Web/Aggregator sides of things. We lost one of the great ones today, a good and generous man., the email begins. Read the whole thing.
Now I'm downloading DigiBarn's pile of MP3s just recorded with Jef a few weeks ago, for listening on the road tomorrow.
Oddcasts
From Chris PIrillo interpods with Steve Gillmor and myself. Steve's includes an explanation of attention.xml:
An xml feed that describes the usage patters of reading XML or RSS information.
All of this is about the second order of magnitude of RSS information routing that's going to occur as people switch over from a Web-based or browser-based model to an RSS reader or consumption pattern.
Important stuff. Especially for those of us whose list of worthy feeds have grown unmanageably large.
It's about time
Rael coins shufflecasting. Bryan Bell joins the herd.
Now (don't) hear this
Anybody got some pointage to good research on computer (or laptop) fans exacerbating tinnitus? One fan in particular is driving me nuts, and I'd like to address it somehow.
And the dwarfkeeper is...
Looks like I wasn't the only one schussing in the last few days, during which I missed the Grumpy Dickhead chronicles, on both Web and pod. But my aggregator still caught nomatic_audio's inclusion of yours truly among the Seven Dwarf podcasters. (Though I won't think of myself as a real podcaster until I'm doing it myself, as well as amongst the Gillmor Gang.)
Not too coincidentally, my nickname in Junior High was Sleepy, because I fell asleep in class all the time. I hated the name so badly that I crossed it out in my yearbook. Now I look back at it fondly, since I still do the same at conferences.
Anyway, seems to me we need a Snow White go go with all these other guys. Given his extrapodcastular preoccupations (and copious wintry imagery), I believe the title should go Mike Dunn (of nomadic_audio) himself.