Friday, August 25, 2006

Trying to make sense of it all

Vaspers: I see the blog as an octopus, rocket, sponge, and church.

Dennis Haarsager: Fun with power curves.

Tristan Louis: Top 10 Opportunities in Virtual Worlds.

James McGovern: I guess my vice is doing meaningful things with integrity.

Rejected Web 2.0 names

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Some of those go to squattrs or scammrs. (Or domain leeches.) Some are actually real, sort of. For example, California Central Coast Institute of Transportation Engineers, which site at Engineerz.com.

Anyway, just screwing around. Back to our irregularly unscheduled program.

Short tale

Time: 50 Coolest Websites, 25 Sites We Can't Live Without.

Making the place where we're headed

Gordon Cook: How do we get from "here" to "there"? He goes deep here. The killer piece (at the end of a bad link I hope G will fix soon) is Personal Fabrication: a Talk with Neil Gershenfeld of MIT. Neil's work reminds me of my friend Marshall Burns' "Napster fabbing," which he talked about at the first P2P conference.