Saturday, May 6, 2006
The ongoing death of Television As Usual.
If insane value-subtracting strategies for maintaining silage distribution to captive ruminants doesn't fail on its own, count on the market force we call "intelligence" to morph advertisers into smart companies that would rather spend their money efficiently.
Via Parallel Scobilization
John C. Dvorak, Steve Gillmor and I share a listener on Sirius.
Wag the buzz
The Cluetrain Does Stop at Tabblo Station is a post in which Tabblo creator Antonio Rodriguez responds to this Valleywag item.
For what it's worth, I know Antonio (had breakfast with him the other day, in fact), and I've seen and played with Tabblo. It offers unique services, creates a niche that it also fills, meshes symbiotically with other services in the marketplace and has a real (i.e. because-style) business model. Looking forward to seeing what ya'll think.
Invitation
The blogosphere is and has been the most level playing field ever known to mankind...
The biggest Internet myth of all is "build it and they will come." Sure, people will come, but first you have to invite them over and tell them where you live.
Identity progress on rails
My Internet Identity Workshop pictures are up.
The event, an unconference, was one of the best conferences, prefix or no, that I've ever been to, much less been part of.
Here's Phil Windley's wrap. He also has an earlier list of inbound kudos for the conf.
Kaliya (pictured above) Hamlin, who organized the event's "open space" approach, has these reflections. Kaliya and Phil did most of the hard work of putting the conf together. I'm listed as an "organizer", but that's an extreme exaggeration.
Kim Cameron called it a "superevent".
Dave had nice things to report too. (Here are some more birthday pix.)
Next up: Berkman's Identity Mashup conference at Harvard Law School, June 19-21. (Watch the Identity Gang wiki for pointers.)
Obey your urinal
Y'know, I didn't get the message until I almost pissed on my shoes at the Carls Jr.
Words of Mouths
Tom Maddox has produced a podcast of a conversation between he and I at the Internet Identity Workshop earlier this week.
Haven't listened to it yet. Was quite the fun talk, as I recall.
Rolling
Hugh MacLeod explains the Snowball Theory.
Love this one too.
Shoot
David Sifry is, among his other talents, a fine photographer. Dig this series from his just-completed trip to London.
Here's a set currently on display in San Francisco.