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Tuesday, November 18, 2003
And to think in some countries they eat them 
| | Funny as shit. In fact, some of it is shit. |
Scoping out Dean
| | None of this means Dean is going to win, and none of it can make him win on its own -- message, tone, and external factors are critical -- but it's a huge part of his success so far. |
Blog on
| | Intense, tense, at times. Jack Fuller's "nice print guy who doesn't get it" keynote unified us, but there's also tension between those doing traditional newsgathering they dump to the web (rather than to press) and bloggers. (And there's some negativity about blogging, ranging from hostility to a patronizing, "We'll see if blogs are still big next year.") |
| | Last night, brain burn was so intense I skipped the trip to the Trib newsroom and instead went around the corner a coupla blocks to Bill's Blues Bar. Dancing to Charlie Love and the Silky Smooth Blues Band was the only way I was gonna recharge for today. (Others said they went straight to bed.) |
Toyblog
| | Dave Aiello has launched Operation Gadget, a new blog of "gadget news and reviews." Lots of cool toys, well described to feed your gotta-have-one implulse. |
Why a geek issue may not float every voter's boat
| | My take on this issue of making the Net my primary issue is that this would be both counter-productive and destructive to the Net as a thing, since it puts the definition of the Net into the political domain when what is really at stake is a series of procedural decisions about the flow of information. |
Overblogged
| | Chris Pirillo joking in his Apachecon keynote, live: RSS stands for "Real Slim Shady." He loves RSS, and is giving the most usefully simplifying presentation I've seen yet. It's "push" without the "proprietary". |
Went there, wrote about that
Armed and even more Dangerous
Starbucks Hacks, #1 of Whatever
| | When I was in New York last Summer, Britt taught me how to cheap out on a great coffee deal at Starbucks. In the interest of... I dunno, something... here it is. |
| | Ya gotta start by recognizing a fact all of us effete types (including Chris Pirillo, above) love to deny: Starbucks makes good coffee. Quality of the final goods may vary from one outlet or barrista to the next, but the roasted sources are good. Deal with it. |
| | Next, you order a doppio over ice. That's a double espresso, over the largest cup of ice you can get. The price will be the same: cheap. |
| | Then you add milk, half & half or whatever other additives you like. And voila! You have a fine coffee, exactly the way you like it (as long as you like it on ice). |
| | I figured, as long as I was explaining this to Chris anyway, I might as well blog it. |
For the next time somebody tells you diary blogs suck
| | Diarytic writing doesn't get much better than you'll find at derlava.net, to which Halley pointed yesterday. Outstanding stuff. |
Credit where overdue
| | David Weinberger did not come up with the "corollary to Andy Warhol's most famous aphorism". The origin of the "famous for fifteen people" quip is Momus, a Scottish, techno-punk music artist, who modified Warhol's phrase in 1991. |
| | Reminds me of Searls Second Law, Invention is the mother of necessity. The first was Logic and reason sit on the mental board of directors, but emotions cast the deciding votes. There were ten, originally. I gave up on the compilation effort in 1986, when my advertising agency, Hodskins Simone & Searls, was meeting with our new client, Racal-Vadic. Racal's CEO was Kim Maxwell, a brilliant former Stanford professor who knew more than nearly everybody about nearly everything. Really. It was often humbling to be around him. |
| | Such as during that meeting with Racal, where I said, feeling very smart and original, "Invention is the mother of necessity." |
| | I did my best not to fall on the floor. "Veblen, yes," I said. |
| | "Theory of the Leisure Class." |
| | "Yes. Anyway, as Veblen said..." |
| | Maybe Dr. Weinberger will feel equally humbled today. Unless I misquoted him, which is, knowing me, probable. |
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