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It only took 1.2 years I finally have links on my links page. You're probably not on it yet because I pulled it out of my butt when I should be working. So remind me. Now penguins can live in peace Linux industry calls it quits. Elvis has entered the building I'm glad to see Craig Burton using his Lately I've been thinking about how so much of our shared infrastructure comes up from the programming community and solidifies around (and perhaps even as) the Net. It's also what businesses — including software companies — decide to share for the good of everybody. In that case it's still the programming community. One of the things that's become clear to me here at Linux World Expo is how annoying and pointless the political arguments between the open source, free software and commercial software "communities" become when considered in the larger context of civilization, which they all make together, whether they like it or not. And at the very center of the action is what we all do for the net. Which is make infrastructure. Thinking of which... Kevin and I were talking last night about what might be a good idea for a conference. Right now I'm thinking we need one about infrastructure. Sonic weblogs It was a huge groove to discover, talking with Andy, that both of us were influenced in our youth by great radio in the Sixties. For Andy it was Dave Herman's Marconi Experiment on WMMR in Philadelphia. It was Dave who turned Andy on to Bob Dylan. I met Dylan through Bob Fass, who has been on and off on WBAI for most of the Holocene. Love is too weak a word for what I felt about WBAI, and for its original personalities. Larry Josephson, Steve Post, Paul Gorman... back in the Sixties. But it was Fass, who made FM talk radio — and so much more — happen back then. His show, Radio Unnameable, happened in the wee hours of the morning, when it subversively led hundreds of thousands of listeners to lose sleep and gain culture. Had a great dinner two nights ago with Steve Gillmor, who not only lived The Sixties in New York (I was a suburban kid, living vicariously through guys like Steve, and, of course, the radio), but knew and worked with a lot of the Great Influences (from what I gather, he was one of them too). We talked about radio back then and agreed that it's happening all over with the Weblog movement. Then last night I had terrific dinner with Kevin Werbach. We talked about the sense of being at a strange and wonderful time in history, when the drugs of money and fame have worn off, and What's Happening isn't most manifest in the usual places we look for it, like at the tops of companies. It's certainly here in the New Radio, which is what weblogs are for me. It's also in P2P, end-to-end or whatever it is. Mostly it's happening with Us, and what we are for each other. So this morning around 1 AM I tuned in WBAI. I didn't know what to expect, because WBAI has had more coups over the years than the average banana republic. But there he was. I couldn't believe it. Bob Fass was still there, sounding a bit more gravely around the vocal chords, but... the same. Dylan wasn't on, but he had the usual herd of guests, some or all of which (it was hard to tell) were members of Church Ladies for Choice. It was like nothing had changed. By the way, West Coast folks who want to sample Howard Stern at his best (yes, Howard is a descendant of Bob, too), should tune in for today's show. It's finished here on the East Coast, but there's still time to hear some of it in the time zones west of here. I know, I know... There's a lot to hate about Howard. But he's unbelievably skilled at what he does, and often very funny. I heard David Spade's guest appearance on the way over here in the cab, and I hated to get out before it was over. Will anybody go for Tea? Says here that the source code for Go.com is open and called "Tea." Curious to know what will happen there. At Eazel Spent a big hunk of yesterday afternoon in a great conversation with Andy Hertzfeld of Eazel. What a fun, creative and interesting guy. Among the many surprises in our talk was discovering that he credits much of the founding GUI OS work at Apple not to himself but to Bill Atkinson, whom he says was the prime architect of the Lisa, which preceded the Macintosh. AI also learned that Andy has MP3 recordings of all but 20 of Bob Dylan's 120 performances last year. (I think I have that right. Whatever, he's a huge Dylan fan.) I recorded much of the conversation and the interview will be in Linux Journal or one of its Web sites soon. Meanwhile, here's one CNET did at the last Linux World Expo.
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