Wednesday, March 16, 2005
Picture found, not on Flickr
Haunted shorts for sale.
Baggery
Early on there was an IRC discussion about how utterly useless the bags are that you get handed when signing in at these kinds of conferences. Trevor on #etech said it's almost like the people at the registration desk are saying "Here, throw this away for me." I kept one single sticker from the bag I received at SXSW for example. The truth is that 99% of the stuff in that bag, if not the entire thing is in the trash 28 seconds after it's picked up.
I gotta say that I like schwag bags. They make excellent lunch and toy bags for kids. They are especially useful for toys that no longer fit back in the box, have lots of parts, and the kid wants to take in the car.
What he said. And then some.
Clay Shirky, on stage at eTech: The phone is a surprisingly good platform for two-way voice. Who knew?
He's talking about really interesting shit. Mobjects that light up when somebody hugs them over the phone... Mobjects with stigmata... Homeless mobjects that ask for money... Mobject relatives you'd rather not meet at parties... Switchable carrier business models... Self-tossing draintrap salads... Social mush patterns across linked mobile game tutorial casualties... SIM chips that let you switch kids... Clay's not saying any of that, by the way. I'm just goofing on whatever he is saying, which is going by so fast I can't understand it even though I'm really impressed.
Bonus link: Emerging things I hate, by Vincent-Olivier Arsenault. He wrote Jetsgo Sucks and Swallows after arriving at eTech. The gist:
Privately held canadian airlines, Jetsgo, has savagely ceased all its operations, and closed its doors, last friday, March 11. It so happens that my employer, Agence Braque, sort-of born with Jetsgo and Jetsgo's main marketing agency, sinks with it as well. So the day I'm leaving for O'Reilly Emerging Tech in San Diego, I loose my job. :(
I also put back the content from a previous post that was censored on Jetsgo demand. Oh, and my [FR] new resume is up now.
PR brought to America by force
Finally saw a few clips from the Ministry of Propaganda this morning. Wouldn't be a big deal if real TV stations hadn't aired them without explaining their source and purpose.
Bonus link from Jay Rosen: A Western Civ Course on What's Gone Wrong With the Press.
Over there
New posts at IT Garage: Nonfriction, Games, Non-Profit Use of Open Source, Support availability, risk aversion.
Hold it, lemme pull 'em off first.
At The Podcast Network we've got 10 shows currently that are all growing quite fast. We're only a month old. A year from now, I'm coinfident that we'll have bigger listener numbers than any single radio station in Australia. And our costs are minimal. We are starting to get quality demographic information on who our listeners are. If we can't make money out of that... I'll eat Doc's shorts. By the way, we've already got a dozen or so advertisers working on deals with us.
Casting call
John Edwards plans to podcast. More from Ed Cone.