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 Wednesday, January 7, 2004
started 1/7/2004; 9:35:57 AM - last post 1/8/2004; 3:09:32 AM
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Doc Searls - Wednesday, January 7, 2004 
1/7/2004; 1:35:57 PM (reads: 10295, responses: 4)
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Paris is steaming 
| | I'm actually watching The Simple Life, and I'm all like, thinking, you know, Why? I mean, like, this is going to get so, like, Old, you know? So I go, like, where do these girls, you know, hide their weed? I thought for a second there was, like, you know, a story or something, but every shot is like only a second long, so. I don't get it. |
You gotta go a long way to do that
| | Overheard on my way back to the parking garage: |
| | Mars Rover? Fuck the Mars Rover! |
| | I have no idea about the context, but I love the location. |
Raines pours
| | I'm sitting here with Raines Cohen, who has opened a time capsule of sorts that he'd like me to tell ya'll about: the old BMUG office, which went into storage a few years back... He moved the contents out, and is making it available for free to anybody who wants it. |
| | If you're at Macworld, come to user group room 252, mezzanine level, to pick up ... whatever. Computers, peripherals, software, other stuff. |
Means for ends
Ya never know
| | Hmm. I'm heading down to the City That Never Sleeps for the weekend... |
| | they say hitting a round ball with a round bat is the hardest thing to do in sports and pete rose did it more times than anyone. |
Word out
| | Jimmy Guterman in Business 2.0 (subscription required): |
| | 2004 will be the year that blogs go mainstream, although doing so will not have the liberating effect that today's well-known bloggers are predicting. We won't enjoy some avalanche of great new independent presses tearing down the media monoliths or something similarly utopian. We'll just get ... more voices. The volume of blogs will mean that individual ones will lose much of their impact among the technorati -- and the technorati will lose whatever little impact they're having on mainstream media. In a world where millions blog regularly, pundits like Lawrence Lessig, Clay Shirky, and Dave Winer aren't celebrities anymore. As with other Net media (from Usenet to webcams), the old-timers will whine about how the good old days were better, but the movement of blogging from an elitist activity to just another thing we all do on the Net can't be considered anything but healthy. |
| | This year, the broadcast television networks will bow to reality and start accommodating TiVo (TIVO) and the new generation of Net-enabled media appliances. Chief among them will be Sony's (SNE) upcoming PSX, which will unite TiVo functionality, massive storage, Net access, and a game console. The hybrid device has proven to be surprisingly popular in its initial just-before-Christmas release in Japan, and there's a nation of living rooms with too many knotted patch cords that need a cost-effective solution. Using everything from product placement to various forms of viewer participation, TV execs will finally deal with these new devices and find that there's life beyond the 30-second ad spot. |
| | My corollary to the first one: Conceiving the Net in static real estate terms — "sites" that are "under construction," for example — will give way to more journalistic concepts. Writing. Posting. Linking. Replying. Commenting. Answering. Sourcing. |
| | A whole new world of verbs and verbiage. |
Macwhirled
| | Had an interesting day at Macworld yesterday. As expected, Apple didn't provide wi-fi net connections during the keynote, but I had a fun time hanging out in virtual space with other journalists there, notably a crowd led by Adam Engst, who put up a wi-fi LAN and facilitated group note taking, which he put up somewhere (I'll find out later). |
| | A sub-par Steve Jobs keynote for product announcements, I thought. Not that it mattered. My main take-away was that Apple is doing a great job of hacking the music industry, and is playing a significant role (how intentionally is not yet clear, but credit where due) in the mass market shift from a consumer to a producer culture. |
| | What will happen when all of us can be the first sources of music and movies as well as journals and books? A bigger, freer and far more interesting marketplace, is what. |
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Alan Graham - Re: Tuesday, January 6, 2004
1/7/2004; 2:04:29 PM (reads: 432, responses: 2)
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I enjoyed the keynote. With the loss of MacWorld NY, we can't expect Apple to announce every major development in one show. In fact I was doing some research recently for a MacWorld piece and found that Apple has traditionally spread their product announcements throughout the year.
I posted a blog entry on O'Reilly today about what I hoped for vs. what I got.
http://www.oreillynet.com/pub/wlg/4144
I have to say I'm rather pleased. The new mini iPod is welcome in my book...I think we'll see a price drop in time, but another marvel of engineering for Apple. Personally, I expect we'll see additional product announcements by Feb...and I do expect good things this year in hardware and software.
So far the best announcement I've seen came from El Gato...and their introduction of a high quality DVR and a streaming solution for the home...something that finally does a good job at the right price point. Check the EyeHome FAQ out at:
http://elgato.com
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Phil Wolff - The Don't Blog Blog
1/8/2004; 7:09:32 AM (reads: 421, responses: 0)
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It came up when we were talking about including flash in a blog. I've included flash in a blog post before but the Don't Blog: Headlines from the Coming Weblog Backlash slide show is part of the furniture.
If you've never done it before...
<embed src="http://dijest.com/dontblog/dontblog5.swf" align=left quality="high" bgcolor="#FFFFFF" width="400" height="300" padding=15 type="application/x-shockwave-flash" pluginspage="http://www.macromedia.com/shockwave/download/index.cgi?P1_Prod_Version=ShockwaveFlash"></embed>
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Phil Wolff - the mini ipod is ugly
1/8/2004; 7:21:01 AM (reads: 992, responses: 1)
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There. I said it. Ugly. So 1995. And Overpriced. Different software than the standard ipod. No audio-in jack; goodbye to dreams of kids everywhere interviewing people for their weblogs. Small display even tinier; impossible for people over 40 to see, usability further shot.
Yet "the kids" will continue to drool for them. And with discounts, they'll sell like hotcakes.
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Phil Wolff - Mitch Ratcliffe is writing the e-democracy book for O'Reilly
1/8/2004; 7:28:46 AM (reads: 584, responses: 0)
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Heard it from store staff. Maybe with a collaborator. Draft due in March, on shelves by June, in time for the election year media frenzy. Way to go, Mitch!
http://www.ratcliffeblog.com/
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