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Thursday, November 8, 2001
Eventual messaging 
| | I'm trying to make AIM work, but I keep getting a message saying "Chat services are not available right now. Please try again in a few minutes (no chat nav)." Well thank you! Meanwhile it also ties up the machine for :30 seconds (that feels like 5 minutes). I just quit the program and it hung. Now it's force-quit for good. Oy. |
| | On to the next question: what else is there that runs on Macs? The last few times I used ICQ it crashed everything. Right now I'm trying to get to JabberCentral to download a Mac Jabber client, but that gets nowhere (they have a better excuse, being small and new and hacky and all). I'm told Yahoo has one, but I can't find it (ah, there it is). MSN is Windows only. For my purposes IRC won't do. IM/Chat is what I want. |
| | Anyway, we'll see how it goes. |
As I was say—
| | Later... David wrote back with the rest of the quote: "They've drawn a circle around the people who have an immediate interest in their source code, and said we're going to allow these people to participate in this," Mr. Searls said. |
Culture 1, Carly 0
| | I spoke to an old friend yesterday who worked many years at HP, and still considers the company "family." She told me that Carly Fiorina's deal to buy Compaq was something neither company namesake would have done. Nor would they have hired Carly in the first place. The Family has never taken well to outsiders coming in to run the company. Better to appoint somebody who came up through the ranks, has the respect of fellow family members, and knows the culture. |
| | Carly staked her career on the deal, the Mercury-News said. Stick a fork in her: she's done. A real shame, too. I liked her from the start, and still do. |
| | Next time, bet on the family. |
Ground Infinity
| | I've imagined doing software backwards—and it almost works. Backwards 1.0 has a ton of great features. With each release it has fewer features, until, one day, it¹s down to its core, the bare few features that make it a killer app. |
Pray for the company that can play tic-tac-toe with itself
| | That said, recommendations for other hosting candidates are welcome. All I need is to park the domain and its mail server where about 200Mb of space isn't too expensive. |
How instantaneous are you?
Whither target=``_blank''?
| | I sense a shift in common linking practice. Where the default used to be straight links, more and more of us are using the target tag to open up a new page. Some readers, like Charles Roth (who did the hackage on BuzzPhraser and whose opinion I regard very highly), think it's a good idea. Others, like Jakob Nielsen, whose opinion a great many (including me) regard highly, don't. |
| | I've generally been against it because a) there's more to go wrong when typing up the tag — a mistake I make daily — and b) it clutters the reader's page while giving them something they didn't expect. I hate hitting the Back command and going nowhere because the page I'm on happens to be new. But maybe that expectation is changing for a lot of people. |
| | Curious what the rest of ya'll think. |
Apple cider
| | Apple has tried to be an Enterprise Vendor on several previous occasions and failed because they don't understand what is expected of an Enterprise Vendor. Technology's nice, but that's not what makes a successful Enterprise Vendor. Service, support, and customer relationships are what count. I've seen no indication that Apple has changed its attitude about any of that. |
| | She adds this provocative question, which I think is a really good idea: |
| | Maybe they could find a partner to be their Enterprise Supplier Partner? |
| | Amy was responding to this post by Barry Cohen in response to this post by Dori Smith (both also very good). I just posted a long response. Let's see if more than 1 in 10 of you go there. (Yes, this is a test. I'm curious to see what happens. Later....So far it looks like more of you have gone there than here, meaning linkage is heading in from elsewhere. Interesting.) |
| | Another question. First, look at what Mike Sanders is saying today at Keep Trying, and follow its links. Now: what is it I'm doing here with Amy and the rest of you? Monologue? Dialogue? Blogalogue? Or something else again? |
Uncommon places, they are
| | Tom writes about the blog thing with his customary eloquence and insight. A sample: |
| | Here's the thing for me. I've kept books of things I like since I was a kid, before knowing they were called commonplace books. Sharing such things was a natural outgrowth of enthusiasm. Bothering with whether anybody gave a damn seemed extraneous. |
| | I love the "natural outgrowth of enthusiasm" line. |
Put it on UB and it'll be cancelled in thirteen weeks
Me, starring Billy Ray Cyrus
| | Seems there's a TV show called "Doc." |
| | This comes up as "news" when you search for "Doc" on Google. Meanwhile this blog is the #2 result out of 20,000,000. |
The dike is breached and the kid is raising his finger to the sky
| | Blog o' the day: Punkey.com, the Log de Plume of Frank en Helie. It's mostly in Dutch, but his tagline is vintage Weinberger, being a meme authored by the good doctor that served as Thesis #7 of The Cluetrain Manifesto as well as one of the book's chapters. Dig the pile of links on the right side of Punkey's page. They're a hoot. (Didn't know Google had a Dutch twin, did you? Neither did I.) Anyway, Punkey came to my attention as part of RageBoy's memewrangling efforts of late, which appear to be exceeding. Which is the idea. |
There are responses to this message:Hosting, Dave Polaschek, 11/9/01; 11:17:06 AM IM and target=_blank, rusty, 11/9/01; 12:55:52 AM Re: Commonplace books, A.M. Kuchling, 11/8/01; 6:19:31 PM Re: Thursday, November 8, 2001, Dean Landsman, 11/8/01; 4:02:47 PM
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