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Wednesday, November 14 2001
Blog on! 
| | Amy Wohl has signed up and blogged on. What a treat to have her aboard too. She's a Wise One and a straight shooter who's bound to show up on a lot of blogrolls. |
Plug
| | Paul got disconnected at Wired. That sucks. Paul is one of the best editors I've ever dealt with. Count me as a reference. |
Dyserratadata
| | First, my observations about the crash coverage on Monday applied to coverage on Monday. Not since. |
| | Second, thanks to Lawrence Lee for discovering that The Standard's archive hasn't died; it just pricked its finger on a spinning needle and sleeps waiting for a prince to appear. |
| | Actually, Lawrence found the domain surviving at thestandard.net. Guess nobody paid $35 to keep thestandard.com going. |
| | Third, I am not now nor have I ever been a member of the Birthday Party. |
Dotcom survivor lives by helping others to give
| | The survivor is Robert Grosshandler, and his company is iGive, which actually makes money. And it's a dot-com. And it does good stuff. That doesn't suck. I've been following Rob and iGive since before the company was born, and he often provides me with helpful links, quotes, leads and stuff here at the blog. A quote from the piece: |
| | David Carlick, a partner at VantagePoint, a venture capital firm based in San Bruno, Calif., has invested personally in iGive apart from his firm's investment. Carlick credits Grosshandler with recognizing the need to shift from a "first-mover advantage" position to a "last man standing'' posture. |
| | There's a blast from the past. Dave and I competed back when we both had advertising and marketing outfits in Silicon Valley, many boom/bust cycles ago. He's a good guy, and I'm glad to see him hanging in there too. |
New sight
| | Linux Journal has finally replaced its (now we can say it) clunky old site with an inviting new one that's interactive in the manner of Slashdot and Kuro5hin. It's based on PHP-Nuke. Go check it out. Some of my stuff is there already. I'll be contributing a lot more. |
Vote for failure
| | In Better Living Through Software, Joshua urges a "vote for Doc" (it's his headline) on the matter of a possibility I raised several days ago: that commercial airliners on take-off are flying ducks for properly equipped terrorists hiding under the flight path. |
| | My purpose, however, was not to raise a theory but rather to encourage thinking out loud about possibilities other than ones we've seen aready. Even the terrorist theories being floated on the news were about familiar scenarios, most of which involved sabotage. |
| | But at this point it really does look like the plane shook apart. The engines were fairly intact, which would not be the case if one was hit by a heat-seeking missle. And one of them was due for its 10,000-hour overhaul. |
| | Now I'm afraid that the problem is one of success. We build these things to fail so rarely that we rarely get a chance to learn from their failure. |
Just in case you thought Putin was in Texas to talk about something other than oil
Here's a test
Buzzgrinder
| | Remember what the Lemur said about the continuing failure of Business Monologue? It's here. Also two items down. Okay? Cool. |
| | Now Deborah, one of our community's bigtime byliners (Newsweek, etc.), exposes (with the help of one of those flacks she likes to smack around) the innards of the post-attack BigCo journalism sausage machine. It isn't pretty. But it's funnier'n'shit. |
R2B
| | Chris Locke has just devoted much Ragespace on his blog to an ever-widening dilation on Blogspace, in one small (but no less gassy) corner of which we presumably dwell & swell right now. One startlingly inclusive conclusion: |
| | Actually, Winer has it right: it's the cloud of cross-polinating, trans-resonating ideas that has developed in blogspace that makes blogspace different from the web that came before -- and that will create the web that comes after what we're doing here. |
L2P
| | The Head Lemur explains why peer to peer are the most dangerous words on the planet. |
| | There are no secrets on the web. The emperor has no clothes here. Business does not understand this. The last 18 months have shown that Monologue doesn't work anymore. We are not interested in one sided 'conversations'. |
It's been a long month already
| | Thanks to my typo, yesterday's title of this page was the 123rd of November. Amazing, those readers. |
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