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Monday, May 20, 2002
Bloghole  That's the best name so far for bloggers who won't link. Others include "hermitlogger" and "clogger" (a practical favorite). Dysrelevance Two years ago, even one year ago, any industry conference would have revolved, unavoidably, around Microsoft. Not any more. About the only thing that anybody on stage has said about Microsoft today is, essentially, that it doesn't matter. Stuff like this doesn't help. Backbloggery Eric Norlin is blogging away on a buncha the stuff below. Dig it. Happy Birthday to the big guy It's Craig's birthday today. His daughter's too. Blog him well. (And maybe he'll start blogging back. We miss him.) What do you call a blogger who won't link? We need a name for that. Eric Olsen at Tres Producers (and the Blog Nation Book site) lays into Andrew Sullivan for Andrew's tendency to link sparsely to fellow bloggers (which I've noted before — and before that — as has Dan), and apparently for giving a much smaller shit about fellow bloggers than he does about his fellow media bigwigs. While I agree with Eric, I also forgve Andrew (there, I linked him) for it. Media bigwigs are a real and legitimate community. He's in it, we're not, and he's a lot more interested in that community than with ours. But he's also blogging's man on the inside. Let's count that blessing. That said, the permalink problem is inexcusable. Here's what I get when I link to today's Daily Dish:
If it ain't fixed, don't break it Here's Declan's rundown on the raft of Net-related legislative sausage moving through the pork chain in Congress right now. Underheard I can't report on the speeches and panels I'm witness to here, but I can talk about other stuff. Here are a few nuggets:
Powerbooks running OS X are fast becoming the majority laptop in hacking circles. Ev is the latest. And now Scoble! Holy shit:
Here's what I think (at 11am on a Monday in May): Apple is doing a lot of things right (or close enough), and their circle of the development Venn diagram is overlapping hugely with the UNIX community, including committed open source folks, commercial "solutions" developers and all those science types for whom UNIX is simply a universal environment — and they're still highly compatible with Microsoft as a fellow platform vendor. Yes, there's reason to be concerned about Steve Jobs' Hollywood connections (Apple is in the BPDG), he's clearly his own man, and blessedly free of the antitrust lawsuits that have terribly damaged Microsoft's spirit (no matter how much they may deny it). The energy coming off Apple right now is very stong and positive. People there are having fun. They're competitive, but not combative (a critical advantage over Microsft's only serious — but perhaps fatal — character flaw) My advice (no, I don't own any): buy Apple stock. There is a sea-change happening, and it's going down fast. Is there a service checkbox for "eventual?" Tom:
Mum-fi It looks like they have wi-fi here at the Vortex conference. They also require an NDA. So I'll blog mostly about stuff other than what I'm here for. The main topic I won't be talking about is "Reinventing the Networking Industry." Here are the speakers I won't be quoting (unless I get their permission, which is a handy loophole). I'm on my own wi-fi right now, with my base station dialing into Earthlink while I blog in the dark from elsewhere in the hotel room. Handy. It does look like a good conference, by the way. A G2 for the G4 I'm narrowing down the digital carera I covet to the Canon Powershot G2, methinks. It's not small, but not big either; and it has a hotshoe for a bounce-able external flash. I also like the flip-out screen so I can shoot holding the camera at many angles from my head. Looks like the bottom price is around $600. Lemur in the coal mine Here's the Head Lemur on anti-spam posturing in Congress.
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