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Who am we?
 Here's Tim O'Reilly's speech to Apple's WWDC in May. Really good stuff. A Cruise for bloggers? That's what Bernie Dunham is proposing here. I think it might be huge. Geek Cruises already has Linux, Java, Perl, Mac and others. Why not a themed cruise similar to Geek Cruise, but for bloggers? Especially if the boat is specially equipped for it? Last cruise leftover: a real-life cartoon. Quick one What are those power adapters you can use on airplanes, and where's the fastest place to get one for a TiBook? Thanks. [Later...] I just ordered a unit from J&R in New York. Should be here Monday. Thanks to everybody who helped. We're all write Dean Peters: A house divided cannot blog. He's worried that the big media putting a vs. between techbloggers and warbloggers will turn us all into Sharks and Jets. Or something like that. I think the real story, as I've said before, is about journals and journalism, not anything else. Together we add more than we detract, no matter what the big pubs say. A month ago the big pub story about blogging was Is it journalism? The obvious answer was yes, and the story faded away. So will this one. Rolling along In today's blog, Sheila Lennon visits the subject of life as both blogger and print journalist, the combination of which is also the subject of the latest DaveNet. She also has a blogroll now too. Sheila also treats us to a great link: Wayne Robins' take on The Last Waltz. Wayne is one of the great rock writers, and Sheila calls him a "buried blogger." So hey: let's dig him. Sanity prevails Dave Sifry reports that Sirius, the satellite radio company, has withdrawn its petition regarding extraneous emissions from wireless networking devices. Basically they objected to wireless networking. Dave gives several reasons why they made the decision. I'll add one more: they were fighting one of their own potential constituencies: upscale mobile computer users. Yell fire or learn to cook I've been hearing about a techblogger vs. warblogger story that's likely to come up in a New York paper. I wasn't interviewed for it (guess I'm too much of neither), but Ken and Glenn and Dave were. Back in the Pleistocene, when I was a cub reporter for a suburban New Jersey newspaper, I had a managing editor who kept asking, "But what's the story?" When I'd say "There isn't one," he'd say, "Well, make it a story." It was easy. Stories are about characters and conflicts. Each defines the other, regardless of inconvenient complexities and contradictions. If you're a competent writer, and you keep your characters and conflicts simple, the story writes itself. That's why we have the warbloggers vs. techbloggers story. The big inconvenience is that, once again, we're dealing with AND logic here, not OR. The blogosphere is comprised of thinkers and linkers and diarists and techbloggers and warbloggers and newsbloggers and everybody else with a mouse to grind. What's happening is writing, and its out of fucking control. To blur or not to blur John Engler suggests OS X users (now upgraded to 10.1.5) download Silk 1.0, which enables Quartz text rendering (which involves antiialising) in any or all Carbon applications. It's free. I'll try it, but meanwhile I just wish I could turn antialiasing off on pretty much everything. It might be smooth as silk, but it's also blurry as shit. Makes me feel like I've got cataracts. [Later...] Two readers recommended TinkerTool, and it's terrific. It not only gives me easy control over font blurring, but allows me to reset the screen shot default from .tiff to .jpg or .png. Nice. Either that or we're a bunch of pricks on one big cactus Eric Raymond, in Who's a warblogger? Blogotypology considered:
Rather explains things, no? Cruise debriefing While I get some sleep, I'm going to turn the blog over to the estimable Bernie Dunham, without whom hundreds of geeks would have been Net-less at sea this past week, and on other Geek Cruises. Bernie writes knowingly about many cruise-related things, here. here, here, here, here, here and here. He and his wife Margie were also terrific company on the boat.
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