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| Tuesday, August 21, 2001 |
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Funneling 
| | I'm trying very hard not to laugh my ass off at this while I'm pretending to pay attention to the discussion on "tunneling" going on at the front of the room. This link also came from Buzz Bruggeman, by the way. |
Aw shit
| | Dave just kicked the "fuck" out of his Saturday blog. (It's now a "dis.") "We run a PG-rated blog here," he just said to me. I see he also said the same thing on his blog. This world is getting way too small. |
Rock On!
| | My old radio pal Peter Delloro (who looks the same while everybody else ages away) has a new site, and a new show on Lycos Radio. |
Jab live
Giving new meaning to 'a bunch of amateurs'
| | The Internet is composed almost entirely of amateurs. All of the "users" certainly are. Most of the really great sites are amateur creations. In fact, the only sites that are not "amateurish" are those that are tentacle extensions of the un-Fortune-ate 500 and their ilk. |
| | And therein lies the gap. |
| | The Internet as marketing vehicle, selling machine, instrument of our great branding -- it's a farce. The Internet is the great canvas of the amateur. This is the reason for business's total inability to reach us. |
Blognosing
| | That's the new word that came up in conversation yesterday. If you suck up to somebody in your blog, you're blognosing, dude. |
Blog Zero
| | I'm sitting here at Jabbercon, right next to Dave, where we're both both participating in the conference and blogging away. Craig is somewhere around here, blogging too, thanks to the Wi-Fi waves that saturate the room (I see he put up a picture of me snoozing on the job... lovely). I'm sure there are some other blogging folks here, but it feels very much like we're at the Center of Something. Which I think we are with Jabber. I'll give a talk about that later this morning. |
| | Okay, I need to go listen to Michael Bauer, who's talking about the Jabber Foundation. |
Sexzo
Pro fanity
| | Dave just told me (right here in meet/meat space) that he's catching shit for saying "fuck" on Saturday. |
| | Hey, I'm from New Jersey. Profanity is o-fucking-kay with me. |
Cleaning up the inbox environment
| | My friend Tom Geller has a new project: the SpamCon Foundation. It's a nonprofit dedicated to making your e-life spam-free. More details here. |
Buzzings
| | Let's see. In addition to using Powerpoint to unintentionally erase everything my laptop knew about dialing up, I also labeled yesterday's (Monday's) blog "Saturday, August 20, 2001," and linked ambiguously to Buzz Bruggeman at his Activewords site rather than to... well, there's no place to link to other than Activewords. |
| | Along with Eric Norlin and the Head Lemur, Buzz is one of my best sources of linkable goodies. Unlike those two, however, he doesn't have a blog. |
| | So Buzz, I'll make you a deal. Get yourself a blog going and I'll finally get around to looking at Activewords. (I'll do it anyway, but hey: go for it.) |
| | For the record (and to deconfuse those of you who thought the Buzz link went elsewhere), in blog circles Buzz can only mean Deborah Branscum's Buzz.Weblogs.com. Which has some nice nuggets of its own. Today's best: |
| | I haven¹t forgotten what it feels like to take chicken-skin sandwiches to school, and so I don¹t have much patience for corporate leeches who take their perks for granted while they suck a company dry before moving on to another victim. Money matters. Squandering it is a sin‹and I¹m not kidding. Real people lost their shirts in the mass hallucination called the New Economy. Some of them were employees (The Industry Standard staff got no severance), while a bunch of them were small-time investors. Call me quirky, but seems like these master-of-the-universe types should suffer more and profit less when they screw-up big time. Is that so much to hope for? |
| | Context: JD's link to a Guardian piece on the Industry Standard's lavish road to ruin. The magazine reportedly spent $1.4 million on one party in Barcelona. |
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