Friday, March 17, 2006
No spam or scam slam
Britt Blaser on Podslam's contest: Best. Odds. Ever. To win an iPod.
Fine print
Our national nanny has fined 111 CBS stations $3.6 million for airing something "indecent". Among other decisions.
Why don't we have a Federal Journalism Commission, so we can fine magazines and newspapers for the same offenses?
What's more
My latest post in Linux Journal: Imagining the Maximum Net. A sample:
How about framing the Net as the "Information Highway" that became a cliche (without ever quite happening) a decade ago? To get what I mean by that, consider what the US would be like today if we hadn't created the Interstate Highway System fifty years ago. What would the lack of Interstate Highway infrastructure have cost us by now? Where would Germany be without the Autobahn? How about Switzerland without its rail system? How about any great city without its international airports?
Lets get it all on paper
Anyone who has worked long and hard on a blog, zine, or web product realizes how ephemeral they are. (We are Ozymandias.) Preserving blogs is a multilayered task involving curatorial and editorial acumen, systems and programming skills, an understanding of copyright law, and more. If the preservationists do their job right, people 25 years from now will have some inkling of what we have created in this time. If they get it wrong, our work turns to sand.
At least over the last 23 hours
Turns out around 30% of blogs are diaries.
Hip gnosis
Paul Boutin at dinner last night: Nokia would never ship a phone with a spinning color wheel of death.
Euan adds, I wish they had because then at least I would have something to stare at when my new n70 hangs which it does on a wearyingly regular basis!
Catching up
Tara Hunt has put up her Cluetrain-style marketing presentation slides from last Saturday's BarCamp in Austin.
Sean Coon, whom I met at SXSW in Austin, is also from New Jersey (where I come from), lives in Greensboro (where I went to college) and digs basketball (as do I). We had a great talk after Bruce Sterling's amazing speech (the best from him yet, and with zero overlap with the one Bruce gave at eTech a few days earlier), then joined a buncha other folks for dinner (where I discovered Nancy White and I also share an NC co-history) and partying. Anyway, Sean has a great list of credits that would overlap significantly with my own if I bothered to list them.
By the way, Sean has a good set of ideas for tipping blog success into hooks between blogging and business. See the bulleted list near the bottom of that post.