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| Tuesday, October 26, 2004 |
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Core curriculum 
Unfiltered
| | I think the more deeper point, and again, I will stand under the same light of scrutiny, is that what Doc Searls is pushing for is relevance. His engine for this appears to be Cluetrain, which if I understand Doc correctly, contains more prognostication than the entire works of Nostradamus and Jeanne Dixon, combined. So he exhorts "blogging", and "Linux", and "Open source", and "free markets" (exhale crack smoke). Basically, whatever makes people do the bobblehead thing, and more importantly, associate Doc's name with them. Yes, I'm harsh. Just freely voicing my opinion without doing it through "the filter". |
Giving good masthead
More Bloggercon fodder
Two degrees
| | I knew, when I heard about the crash of the Hendrick Motorsports plane, that it was likely I knew people who knew at least one of the ten who died. After all, I lived in North Carolina for nearly twenty years, and still have lots of friends and relatives there. So it turns out Ed Cone's the one. Among the dead was Jeff Turner, with whom I worked last summer on an article about the Hendrick team's use of technology. The place I visited was a happy, proud, close-knit shop. What a terrible blow for them all. |
| | Perhaps not oddly, Ed's one of the North Carolina friends I've met since moving away — through blogging, of course. |
I feel so used
Errorism
| | That is a screw-up of massive proportion. What possible excuse is there for this material being unprotected, for not dropping a huge special forces team in during the invasion to lock this down, since the IAEA told the Administration it was there about before the war? |
Shifting the point
| | As usual, John isn't bashing the idea as much as it may seem. In fact, for me the takeaway quote is this one: The idea is excellent. |
Full loon
| | We have a total lunar eclipse coming up tomorrow, visible over six continents. We'll miss most of it here in the West (I'm in Denver). But the whole thing will be visibe in most of North America and Europe, plus all of South America. Australia and the Far East are SOL. |
| | Bonus fact, from SpaceWeather.com (which regretably still has no obvious way to link to the current page URL): |
| | Sprawling sunspot 687 grew impressively during the weekend. It is now nearly 10 times wider than Earth and poses a threat for strong M-class solar flares. |
| | They go on to give advice for seeing sunspots, which indeed are visible, if you're watching at sunset and there's enough dimming matter in the atmosphere (as we saw last year). |
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