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| Tuesday, April 6, 2004 |
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Lives from Florida
| | One link that caught my eye was to Bill Tush. Back around the turn of the 80s, "Tush" was a small ensemble comedy program on WTCG, Channel 17 out of Atlanta, which hadn't yet turned into The Turner Network and all its spawn. |
| | "Tush" was one of the funniest shows I've ever seen. Here are some clips. They don't include the best skits, which involved a |
The Soylent Web
| | Allen suggests that it's people and not just documents. By the way, Allen's the guy who coined The World Live Web, which is what Technorati searches. And what you're reading now. It's the part of the Wide Web where the documents are live and have human origins. That are spoken as well as written, in real human voices. |
| | So it's documents, sure; but something more. He says we're not there yet, by a long shot: |
| | The web of people will exist only when you can browse it, search, make a directory of it, etc. When you can go to a people-web search engine, type in a keyword, and everyone in the world associated with that keyword comes up, complete with a means to contact them (if they wish to be contacted) — then the people-web will have arrived. |
Remembering the present
| | Archives are a virtue that makes blogs journals rather than sites (and also make Big-J journal sites, which scroll their "content" to oblivion after seven days, less than journals). This fact was brought to mind yesterday when I read Tom Von Alten's 16 Days in China, from last November. Good stuff. |
| | Honestly, why should TV news and psudeo-news programs support democratic elections by actually educating voters when they can erode them by entertaining voters with essentially trivial shit instead? |
| | Betcha she never got to write like that for Newsweek. |
Disconnect the dots
| | This much I'm sure about: the $2 billion deal between Microsoft and Sun isn't about what it seems to be about. Bolstering this notion is Steve Gillmor, who writes, Schwartz on the Deal: Sun's No. 2 Speaks. The key sample: |
| | When you refer to our conversations, you are referring to some events-based mechanism such as RSS? |
| | I think that would be a fruitful area for the two of us to collaborate. |
| | Have you gotten any indication that Microsoft has an interest in RSS? |
| | A fundamental element of events-based communication is ultimately identity. We're walking before we run. This is obviously a new relationship. We're dating. But so far, we're still holding hands and things look good, and as we move forward having set down a foundation, we're going to continue to look for new and compelling ways to add value to our customer base. |
| | To be honest, Steve, given that we have as much confidence as we have in creating this relationship, we're going to look to our customers to give us insight and wisdom about how they would like us to better interoperate. Again, we've set the foundation for that interoperability to be identity, and where we go from there is going to both be a derivative of the creativity of Microsoft's engineers and Sun's as well as where the market tells us they want us to go push the R&D. |
| | The fact is that, no matter what, Microsoft's is the real technology—it is designed to give you the feeling of the power of technology, which is very different than the feeling one gets from the self-satisfaction of the hack. |
| | All this makes me think that Microsoft's position in the world of software development tools lies in the delivery of this feeling more than in the delivery of any tool features. |
| | Email, but you only get messages your computer asks for |
WorthMore
| | I've long thought that corporate mission statements ought to begin with a phrase like, "XYZ company makes the world better by _____." If it can't fill in that blank, the company ought not be allowed to get to the phrase about "creating shareholder value." |
| | Real mission statements are found in questions that need not be asked because everybody knows how the dead guy whose picture hangs in the headquarters lobby would answer them. |
| | Or, in the cases of Jobs, Gates and Dell, the live guys. |
| | By the way, at the bottom of the comments is a trackback that showed me, for the first time after many years of never quite figuring it out, how trackback works. (It takes the reader back to a source, seemingly. In the case at hand, this post on David's blog.) Handy but still complicated. |
| | Things you will never hear on an America West flight: "I'm just stuffed! Care to finish my pretzels?" - The single item of food they serve on a 5 hour flight is a bag of pretzels that's marked as weighing 0.42 ounces. Mmmm. |
| | It's sad that they've actually improved enormously, and still suck. |
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