New Map Details More Than 1,000 California Wineries 12:14:39 PM    Comment []  

Getting it write 

Bruce Baugh has been writing about the evolution of Weblogs.

Not exactly related, but I've been thinking about the expression "trial and error." Much more useful than "trial and success," no? Reminds me of a Garrison Keillor line from one of his Prairie Home Companions of many years ago. Addressing his talk to graduating high school seniors, he wished them failure. "Success doesn't teach anything," he said. Failure does.

My question/whatever-it-was at Steven Johnson's keynote on Weblogs yesterday was pretty much a failure. I'd be surprised if it made even partial sense, beyond one good laugh line.

Steven had some rovocative and interesting things to say. People were talking about some of them later. And I didn't know enough of what they were talking about because during Steven's talk I was busier blogging and coping with technology than I was with listening to him. Usually blogging a talk makes me listen more closely, but in this case it didn't happen. It showed when I went up to the microphone.

I had another experience like that, just before I drove up here. In excpetionalhaste (even for me, an exceptionally hasty guy) about something Thomas Friedman wrote in the New York Times. The post was full of both factual and copy-editing mistakes. Friedman responded by email (through an intermediary), saying I had read him wrong, which was partly true. I also thought he had read me wrong. But what he read wasn't what I really wanted to write in the first place. I also didn't have time to correct, explain or banter about it (which would have been terrific, since that was the original idea behind the post). So I took the post down, and an opportunity had to be tabled, if it wasn't lost altogether.

Bruce writes,

It is indeed early days in this, and we are all collectively figuring what the heck it is we want to do with this stuff. Some people have a very strong, clear sense of what they want logs for and how they want to go about it. Others are noodging.

I think we're all noodging, no matter how clear we are about what we're noodging toward.

The day that was 

Still at the O'Reilly thing. Spent a lot of yesterday writing and then recovering from losing the main thing I had been working on. Got some terrific help from Rael on the matter, but to no avail. Files I know I modified during the day didn't show up anywhere. I didn't finish rewriting the main piece until a few minutes ago, and I'm wasted.

While I crash for a few hours, dig how Rob Flickenger made montages out images culled from everybody else's Web traffic, without their knowledge. Brilliant and scary. The software involved was EtherPEG.

This montage should warm Locke's & Weinberger's hearts.

[Doc Searls Weblog] 9:51:53 AM    Comment []  

Google SVG Search, Part II. Another module, another dozen lines, and a couple of helper routines and we're ready for SVG display. Michael Classen outlines the next step in the development of an SVG based Google query script. 0513 [WebReference News] 10:38:50 AM    Comment []  

You are an AKMA.
You stand out from the crowd because of deeply held beliefs in the unknown.
You ponder endlessly and treat everyone, even fucknozzles, with respect.
WWAD (what would AKMA do) guides your actions.
Take the What Blogging Archetype Are You test at GAZM.org 9:10:02 AM    Comment []  

TiVo's Next Move"Imagine setting aside 10% of your .... TiVo's Next Move
"Imagine setting aside 10% of your TiVo's storage to keeping 2 or 3 suggested movies ready to play (this would be much less noticable in the new 60 hour units), then selecting them from your Now Playing list, operating some sort of keystroke (like three thumbs up, then select) to confirm you want to pay for it, then watching the movie instantly. No need to schlep down to the Blockbuster and fork three bucks over to the Viacom empire when from my couch, I could pay a few bucks directly to TiVo for instant, ephemeral entertainment. TiVo wouldn't have to maintain a 24/7 television channel, they'd simply be selling premium content direct to the customer on demand."

Matthew Haughey thinks Tivo should provide "last yard bandwidth". [Web Voice: online business models and technical marketing - a blog by Olivier Travers]

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