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 Friday, February 14, 2003
started 2/14/2003; 9:01:02 AM - last post 2/15/2003; 10:49:19 AM
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Doc Searls - Friday, February 14, 2003 
2/14/2003; 1:01:02 PM (reads: 4793, responses: 2)
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Get your war off to a blog start 
| | IraqWar.info is what its subhead says: coverage of the coming Iraq war. The look & feel is slashblog. Brand new. |
Thieme's theme
| | Richare Thieme doesn't blog, but he does commit essays to pixels. A House Divided is his latest. |
MoBlogoPromo
| | Coming down to 24 hours before Live from the Blogosphere in Chinatown, L.A., USA, Earth, etc. A friend just wrote to say he expected me to be "trenchant and hysterical." I had to look it up. |
| | It'll be interesting to meet and hang with people I already sort-of know, many of whom I know only from the b'sphere, rather than from Earth. |
| | In radio we used to talk about people with high "voice/face differentials." Robert Reich (whom Alan Greenspan calls a "Bolshevik dwarf") comes to mind. Radio prepared me for the shock of discovering that maybe one in ten people look like they sound. |
| | Imagine a police lineup where the witness is asked "which one did he sound like?" You get my point. Think people will look like they blog? It's an L.A. kinda question. I'm getting ready. |
| | While we're not on the subject of Valentines, Moxie's is a good place to start, since her guest blogger, the Right Wing Texan, spreads his love around rather manfully. The Mox is still (amazingly, considering) looking for a Good Man, too. Maybe, if she shows up, tomorrow night will turn her luck. |
| | Speaking of love, Technorati's Link Cosmos, which is what you get from Technorati Anywhere, abbreviates to TLC, which meant Tender Loving Care before The Learning Channel came along. This invention was responsible, sort of, for the Cosmic Links on the left. |
| | Anyway, I'm hoping Moxie, Matt, Charles, Brian, Mickey, Martin, Ken Eugene, Emmanuelle, Ann, and other locals not featured on the marquee (over there on the left) will show up. |
| | There's certainly no shortage of L.A. bloggers. Look forward to seeing a bunch of ya'll tomorrow night. |
Wider fi
| | We need to do this in Santa Barbara. |
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Moredentity
| | In it he addresses some of the same concerns that Dave Winer brings up in his response to Dave Stutz' parting message to Microsoft. While Dave Stutz urges Microsoft to embrace open source, and Dave urges Microsoft (and the open source community as well) to grow past "world domination" mentalities and embrace independent development in all its forms — commercial and non-commercial — Andre talks about the challenges of doing exactly that, with both Jabber and PingID, each of which consist of .com companies and .org open source communities. (Disclosure: I advise both companies): |
| | I have a saying, the Pendulum Swings Fastest in the Middle. I use it in connection with the concept that HYBRID open source/commercial strategies (neither CopyLEFT or CopyRIGHT) are like gene-splicing the best of both into one coherent strategy. I did that with Jabber, Inc. and I'm doing it again, albeit a bit more aggressively in Ping. |
| | When I founded the commercial company Jabber, Inc. in 2000, there was a lot of concern and a lot of confusion around our business model. No-one quite understood that we were a commercial company, funding an open source project that built a product that competed with our own commercial Jabber server. They didn't understand that we were serving two different markets, that every success of the open source project added a feather to the success cap of Jabber, Inc., and that every new Jabber, Inc. customer (Disney was the first) added to the pride of the Jabber community at large. The notion of 'MUTUALISM' didn't exist -- both parties benefit from each other. |
| | I remember standing in front of my competitors at the early Pulver instant messaging shows and explaining EXACTLY what we were doing, just to see if anyone really understood it. Three years later, most of those companies no longer exist -- clearly they didn't. |
| | He goes on to explain, with graphics and strong language, how his vision of identity works. If you care about this stuff (and you should), it's Important Stuff. |
| | By the way, my own global view on all this is that we're at about the same stage in the development of the post-Net world that the Earth was about 4.5 billion years ago, when (current evidence suggests) another planet about the size of Mars smooshed into it, and cast off the ring of matter that gathered itself into the Moon. The Net, free software, open source and independent development are all elements of the same Big Thing that's still busy clobbering The World We Knew. |
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Dave Winer - Re: Friday, February 14, 2003
2/14/2003; 1:58:18 PM (reads: 412, responses: 0)
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Doc, Andre's quote is intriguing -- I have to think about it.
In the meantime I think he's right -- middle strategies have the most juice. XML-RPC is such a beast. It doesn't care if you're open source or Attilla the Hun. Everyone is welcome. Just don't try to fence me in.
In recent discussions about open source at Berkman, where there are some die-hard open source advocates (I'm making their lives miserable, trust me) it's become more clear that what people want is control of their own destiny, software-wise. In the confusion that comes with this (absolutely fair and justified) epiphany, they assume that all attributes of the demon must go on the scrap heap. No, not true. Microsoft does some things quite well, esp things they learned from others like Lotus, Apple, even IBM. They may be unprinicipled about lock-in, but that doesn't mean everything they do is intolerable. Listening to users and making the software work the way they want to is somethingj that MS and the commercial world do much better than open source, for good reason -- no one would put up with users unless you paid them to because they usually act like customers and guess what makes a customer a customer??
Anyway, enough rambling for now.
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Andrius Kulikauskas - ThisBlogIsPrimarilyPublicDomain
2/15/2003; 2:49:19 PM (reads: 435, responses: 0)
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