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| Monday, January 7, 2002 |
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Maybe telepathy will work 
| | I lost my cell phone either during the Keynote (after we were all asked to turn them off) or later here in the press room. It hasn't been turned in yet. I'll give the press room a thorough search after it closes in 15 minutes. |
| | Meanwhile, if you need to reach me, or are counting on me calling you, forbear. Thanks. |
Macworld of its own
| | Around 7am I pulled into the 5th & Mission Garage — the biggest garage in The City — and immediately ran into Dan. Went down to pick up our press (excuse me, media) badges before we went to stand in line for the Steve Jobs keynote, scheduled for two hours hence. Ran into a lot of cool folks and old friends (some overlap there), while all of us wondered how long before the non-media folks, crowded in a subterranean queue as if in a fallout shelter, would run out of oxygen standing there in their own heat. |
| | We stood there so long, drinking our double nonfat caps from Starbucks, that by about 10 minutes before showtime we were shifting our weight from one foot to the other, hoping we would have time to run back to the bathroom before taking our seats for the scheduled two hour show. |
| | Lots of folks have reported on the show by now, and I don't have time to weigh in with more than a few words of my own, and some pictures, which are here. Low-res as they are, I think they convey the charismatic substance of the show rather well. As we walked out, I reached forward with both arms and ambulated with a lurch, like a zombie from Night of the Living Dead, saying "I think we should all walk like this." |
| | The new iMac is much more beautiful than it appears on the small screen, or in the Time Magazine piece. The base is bright matte white and very substantial (also likely to pick up figerprints and pencil smudges, I would think). It's heavy: over 20 pounds. The screen is beautiful, although 1024x768 is too 1999 for me. If it packed more pixels or were a bit larger, I'd be tempted to drool. (A number of people remarked aboujt its resemblance to the lamp in the Pixar logo, as Glenn illustrates. |
| | But what what seemed to have everybody most fascinated afterwards at the press "viewing" (Glenn, sitting next to me here in the press room, just called it a "scrum") was the shiny metal arm that connects the base to the monitor. It looks like a chrome dildo. At one point the view up the table of iMacs contained the hands of no less than four people, all stroking one of these things. |
| | Anyway, I need to finish writing a piece for Linux Journal about the show's first day. Meanwhile, I'll leave you with a screen shot that shows all the Wi-Fi-based networks people put up during the keynote. Sadly, Apple declined to provide real Net access in the hall. That's why I didn't blog from there. Bummer. |
Serial seriousness
| | Synthesis apparently takes Journalism seriously, and calls me a "coward" (really) for not doing the same. |
| | Tom, in an equally serious mood, explains play. |
| | To sum up the whole matter, Mike synopsizes my thinking this way: |
| | Doc Searls says blogging is all fun and no more Serious than laughing. It's the obverse of Journalism: something that doesn't take too much time, and you don't do for somebody else. |
| | I don't believe I said that, but it's cool. Mike deserves kudos for bringing up and moderating the whole conversation. |
Bazaar behavior
| | The Cluetrain list has morphed from a nice little place where a few folks talked about stuff like "branding" into a big noisy place where a lot more people are talking about Voice and other subjects Cluetrain brought up three years ago and won't go away, despite the druthers of its enemies. |
| | One of the pointers in the last link goes to this list of The Big Ten media conglomerates. It should be Eleven, since it leaves out Clear Channel, which owns a monstrous share of American commercial radio, among other media. |
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