Friday, March 18, 2005

Unprintable

Observation: Most paper cuts happen while removing paper wrapping from reams of copier paper.

Ride on

About BlogMatrix (says here it's "The easy 'one-stop' solution for recording, sharing and listening to podcasts"), Ross Rader says,

David Janes just kicked Evan Williams and Adam Curry in the nuts. Hard.

This application kicks serious ass. Look out podcasters, this is going to be an interesting ride.

Well, I got some hang time with Ev yesterday, and he showed me some of what they're doing at Odeo, and ... let's just say his nuts are fine.

BlogMatrix apparently runs as a client app only on Windows (the download is a .exe that neither my Linux nor my OS X boxes can make sense of). Odeo is... um... let's just say... broader than that. As for Adam's Podshow, I haven't seen more than the website, and that appears to be broader as well, but in a different way — kind of a Live365, without the Live. (And hopefully without the other slow-loading jive.)

In other words, three different offerings, three different categories, three different conversations.

Chill, folks. Markets are public places where makers and vendors offer users and customers lots of choice. Not coliseums where gladiators kick and stab each other to death while the rest of us cheer over bruises and blood.

eHack

Thought Hacks is my latest SuitWatch. It's a high-level retrospective on eTech.

Travels

In a more perfect, or perverse, world I'd be in many places at once. For example, I'd like to be in the Bay Area this afternoon, where SpikeSource (a company I advise) is having an open house in Redwood City (see the notification, with directions, at that last link — plus more here from Glen Martin). But I just got back from eTech, and need to catch a plane to PC Forum at 6am tomorrow, with lots to do in the meantime.

Badder still

The latest Better Bad News panel takes exception to some James Robertson link I can't find (perhaps because it doesn't exist, which would make sense) [Woops, here it is, followed by this commentary by JR] that apparently takes exception to the BBN panel's insistent insults of AutoLink. Funny as hell.