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Thursday, October 9, 2003
Credit where due 
| | One nice thing about living in a small city is that the local paper, even one as busy as a daily tends to be, is still local. And accessible, and responsive. Also concerned. |
| | And it's much appreciated. |
Replatformations
| | Daily Kos is replatfoming from Moveable Type to Scoop, Grant Henninger says. Ever read (or participate) in Kuro5hin? (You should.) That's Scoop. It's much more groupy-participitatish than MT; but also less bloggy. Grant calls it a "great CMS." That's publishspeak for Content Management System. I've always liked Scoop because I've always liked its parent (it had a virgin birth), Rusty Foster. Rusty's the guy who gave me my favorite t-shirt, which says Media Whore. Be interesting to see how it goes. |
| | As long as the underlying protocols on the net are open and all servers accept packets of information from all other servers, the higher order protocols can be proprietary without breaking end-to-end. |
| | Wondering if Richard Bennett will agree. Richard has given some strong pushback (hope he can supply a working link to some examples) on E2E (also WOE); but he also deeply knows whatof he speaks. |
| | Unrelated: Richard writes this about the people's recent installation of Ahnold as governor of Collofawnia (as the new gov can't help putting it): |
| | The crocodile tears that were especially moist on the blogs of the self-styled technical elite about the "un-democratic" nature of the recall were shot to pieces. The recall succeeded dramatically, and Arnie got more votes than Davis even after sharing his with 134 other candidates. They won't admit it, but they were wrong, wrong, dead wrong and couldn't have been more wrong. Was anything more sad than the MoveOn.org campaign? |
| | Well shit, maybe I was (and still am) wrong about "direct democracy," California style. I guess we'll see. Richard's certainly right about MoveOn, which has lost the common touch, if it ever had one. |
Applied Asymptotics
| | Relive BloggerCon in all its glory with the Zapruder-like filmmaking genius of Bob Doyle and friends. Not since Eat the Document have I seen such raw footage. My fave for RSS conspirators: Jon Udell's Aggregators session. Remember, class: Pay attention. RealPlayer required. |
Rebootery
| | Michael O'Connor Clarke is off to Ireland with the family for some R&R. Or maybe the reverse. (What's the difference? I always wondered about that. It's like "all in all." While we're at it, is anyone ever "off the whole"?) Anyway, his blog is now Uninstalled, perhaps because that's how he labels his un(der)employment. Let's try to get him reinstall before he gets back. |
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