Sunday, August 6, 2006
No sooner pod'd than 'cast
Dave just recorded and put up a Morning Coffee Notes (which was more of an Evening Beer Notes). With Dave, Steve Gillmor, Jason Calacanis, Mike Kowalchik (of Grazr). Lots of fun stuff. Big moment: Jason doing a great ad for Digg.
Next step, [yournamehere]ography.
Watch this space.
Bonus photos
I just found a pile of photos that I uploaded before I knew how to tag or make sets on Flickr. There are: Sunrise 12 November 2002, JFK-SFO-SBA 20 May 2005, IAD-LAX, April, 2004 and DEN-SBA 8 September 2004.
The latest set, uploading new as I go to sleep here in Cambridge, is from a pair of flights from Santa Barbara to San Francisco to Paris, for Les Blogs in 2005.
What's wrong with human nature?
Whats wrong with blogs? A good, human and humane piece. Read the whole thing. A pull quote:
There is, even in the most civilized humans, a desire to dehumanize those who are not like us. The lynch mob is never far from forming...
My own two cents: We don't have a commons yet. For building a real commons, blogs (and wikis, and name-your-tech) may be necessary, but are insufficient.
The middle side
Britt Blaser has what may be perhaps the first postpartisan post of a new political era, at least in the blogosphere. One excerpt:
If we do what we’ve always done, we’ll get what we’ve always gotten.
Fire-breathing partisanship is what we’ve always done. It’s what got us here. Maybe it’s time to lay down that hatred and back slowly away.
There are a lot of Eisenhower Republicans jonesing for fundamental change; people who, like Ike, are more concerned than Bill Clinton about the future of the working poor.
He concludes,
Just as citizens can do journalism, we can do politics and, even better, governance. Truth be told, those of us in the middle value our common sense and decency more than we value our rage. We’re finally motivated to do the intervention we’ve been avoiding.
We know it’s time to impose overwhelming reasonableness on these errant socially-challenged adolescents who hijacked the family business while we weren’t watching the store. We’ll do it because we love this enterprise our ancestors formed. Reasonableness is what we do and we’re really not that good at prolonged nastiness. If we want to do revenge politics, we’d just have to hire the consultants again and start the same old karmic spiral. The political consultants would like nothing better. We have to take the other path.
It’s a good thing we’ve got most of the votes and money and human voices on our side.
It's all part of what Britt (with whom I am hanging here in Cambridge) calls a "coming distraction" and I call a potential snowball, if not an avalanche, as the coming election seasons approach: keyraces.us.
Awful news
I just read on his blog that Euan Semple's neighborhood pub is closed, a shell of the self that stood for six centuries. He writes,
As regular readers of this blog will know I have very attached to the14th Century Red Lion pub in Little Missenden. We have been going there most weekends for twelve years and both of my daughters have sat beside the log fire in the winter and played in the gardens at the back since they were very, very young.
When my elder daughter and I turned up there tonight we were faced with the scene in the photo above. A suspected arson attack last monday has reduced the pub to a shell presumably damaging its wonderful wood lined interior.
The photos in the post below turned up while I was looking through archives for my own pictures of the pub. I've been there with Euan and his family. It's a wonderful place.
Makes me wonder if it's repairable, and if the owners, or the community, would welcome a collection from out here in the 'sphrere.