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| Thursday, December 12, 2002 |
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More starburst activity 
The eyes have it
Resource allocation
The Big Third
| | Like Courtney and Janis, Tim speaks from his own success. Unlike the other two, Tim lives and works in the world of technology. He may make his money in a dead tree medium, but his habitat is the Net, which is under sustained attack by Hollywood. |
| | I'd say more, but I'd rather you read the piece. It's important. |
Outline promotion
| | This hasn't been said often or emphatically enough, so I'll boldface it: Blogs are outlines, and blogging is a form of outlining. This occurred to me during the panel on weblogs at Supernova on Tuesday. |
| | I was writing in an outliner, and I was doing it fast — about as fast as it can be done. And I'm not saying that because I'm vain about my typing. I'm saying it because I was using a tool that greatly speeds the process: an outliner. Radio Userland's, to be precise. |
| | In the Weblog session, Dave said "Weblogs are the word processors of the Web." It's no coincidence that my favorite word processor, one I still use, is MORE, the direct ancestor of the Radio outliner. Even some of the keyboard commands are the same. |
| | One of the cool things about an outliner like Radio's is the way it lets you organize what you say by processes like promote/demote, collpase/expand and hoist/dehoist. I won't explain them here, but I will tell you they are very handy once you get to know them. They even help me organize what I'm thinking and writing about, which is saying a lot. |
| | In fact, I just used outlining features to quickly reorganize my blog/outline after moving (actually copying) all of my Day 1 reporting over to its own "story page, where it should have been in the first place. [Later... I just added Day 2] |
Blattery
| | Sifry has done something totally bad-ass. Using Google's program interface, he has developed a three-line hack that allows Movable Type blog entries to automatically show links to related web pages, using Google search results for the blog entry title. |
Something rotten
| | But it's a misleading headline. The country isn't doing the billing. It's "A group affilliated with the Danish music, film and software industries." |
| | I would imagine this comes as a relief to Nicolaj, who lives in Denmark and would have been good to have around at Supernova. (He was smart & fun company at DIDW.) |
Let 100 bloggers bloom
| | The key is to decentralize so that every attendee has a good chance of meeting and talking with all the people they want to talk with, and so that stars can rise, so if the planners don't know who has the most interesting things to say, the users can still find them. |
| | There must be 802.11b in the hotel. Everyone must have a room. The conference runs 24 hours a day for two or three days. The opening session (an idea stolen from MacHack, thanks) is at midnight the first night, to stress that this is a weird conference, leave your expectations at the airport. It also levels the playing field for European bloggers, everyone is jetlagged. There are two ballrooms, one for speaking and one for blogging. There are twenty PCs (or Macs) in the blogging room, which is basically our press room. This is a noisy room. If you want quiet space, go write in your bedroom. |
| | I think the whole idea rocks. |
| | Talk of a weblog conference: Alright, I'm in...mostly cuz I wanna meet everyone face-to-face, all at once. For the record, if i'm there i'll be arguing that: A) weblogging is NOT revolutionary, and isn't the *next big thing*; B) that the conference will only be great for the first year; C) that we really must think about the economic/business model side of things, not simply the humanities side. |
| | Speaking of which, there were nothing but humanities (mostly of the eating sort) during the evenings of Supernova. Marc Canter reports. |
| | Anyway, pardon me for being a humanities major and all, but I want to get back to what Eric was saying about blogs not being a next big thing, and needing a business model and stuff like that. |
| | It helps to think of blogs simply as journals. The category they're changing most (as Dan said in his opening talk on Day Two) is journalism. Dan says it's literally brings a new version of journalism (we're now up to 3.01b2, his title said). What happened at Supernova was journalistic life scaling explosively at the bleeding edge of the category. We were, and still are, hacking away at the next version of journalism itself. It'll mean something bigger and different before we call it old and move from Journalism 3.9 to 4.0. |
| | Of course I might change my mind after this conference we're talking about. I have no idea, which is exactly the idea. |
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