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Monday, April 26, 2004
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 Monday, April 26, 2004
started 4/26/2004; 2:30:20 AM - last post 4/26/2004; 6:34:16 PM
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Doc Searls - Monday, April 26, 2004 
4/26/2004; 6:30:20 AM (reads: 6084, responses: 2)
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Really simple agreement 
| | Whether I agree with Britt's last comment about Big Media (I don't), I understand his perspective. It adds to the dialogue, the conversation. The advent of the blogosphere and RSS has provided both a filter for information and a low-barrier mechanism for empowering the direct participants in a conversation. As the vehicles for gaining knowledge improve in both fidelity and timeliness, I find myself appreciating more and more the opportunity to hear directly from the stakeholders. Certainly commentary, interviews, and news stories have their value, but given a choice (which blogs and RSS have provided), a conversation often takes into account the dialogue to date and moves beyond it efficiently and organically. |
| | ...it's the conversation that keeps me coming back for more. The filter, the sense of time being respected, the mesh of great minds, emotion, and humor. |
| | I especially like Steve's point about conversation being additive. So much of the mainstream news world is stuck in OR mentality, or what Deborah Tannen called The Argument Culture. Clash of ideas. Extremes yelling at each other. Binary choices, or worse, reductive choices (which is what American Idol, Survivor and the rest of Reality TV seems to be about). |
| | Okay, I'm finally off to Heathrow and Dublin now... |
If you want it, make sure the service doesn't suck
| | On the other hand, I got one of the company's wi-fi hub/routers a few years back (an ancestor of this), and their service was terrible. Though the performace of the thing is still good. |
Remedial reality
| | 1. I want to address two questions in a roundabout way. A. Why is it that when Dean supporters met, we'd frequently talk about what we didn't like about Dean, even while remaining fully licensed Deaniacs? B. WRT the Dean slogan, we have the power to take our country back from whom exactly? Why did that slogan work? |
| | 2. These questions are obscured by the rapid consolidation of inappropriate lessons we've taken from the Dean campaign, including that the Net is only good for raising money and all that social networking stuff was for naive girly-men. |
| | Great stuff. Read the whole thing. |
| | Be curious to see how his talk went. |
Blast from the present
A three-fer
Frontiers of FUD, cont'd
Electrical banana question
| | Wondering about strategies for charging all the devices that only run on 120volt 60cycle AC. The laptop charger handles 220/50, but the rest of my stuff (e.g. Sony Clie charger) appears to be strictly domestic. Meanwhile I'm charging them all one last time at LAX before heading out. |
Like a star smeared across the sky
| | Get up early enough and you might see this. |
Mean time
| | I just moved the blog to Greenwich Mean Time, since that's the zone where I'm headed today. I drive to L.A., fly to London and then to Ireland to speak at 2pm Wednesday 28 April, at LinuxWorld Ireland/ICT Expo. That's 6am here, where I'm writing this, in California, and it's still yesterday for a few more hours. In other words, the talk is coming pretty soon. (Looks like the weather will be okay, which is nice.) On Friday I head to London for the weekend, then home on Monday. |
| | I've been corresponding (though not nearly enough to feel fully coordinated) with folks in Ireland and the U.K. about get-togethers and such. Should be a lot of fun. Can't wait to get over there. |
| | The subject of my talk is DIY-IT: How Open Source is turning IT into a Do-IT-Yourself Marketplace. It's a subject I've been watching (and talking about — see the list of links here) for the last year, mostly solo. |
| | I want to change that, which is the idea behind IT Garage. My name may be in the long-form title, but that doesn't mean I'm the only writer. In the long run (which I'd like to start ASAP) mine should be just one instrument in the band. |
| | If any of ya'll are interested in writing about the smart & resourceful work people are really doing in IT, with or without the help of vendors, feel free to step up. |
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lou josephs - Radio in UK/Ireland
4/26/2004; 8:45:45 PM (reads: 574, responses: 1)
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BBC Radio 2.. The morning guy is the legend. Terry Wogan.
Afternoons with Steve Wright..also Johnny Walker does pm drive. (a 2 hour gig)..The late night host is Janice Long..she works in low rent digs not London..88-91 fm
Radio 1 on fm not worth your time.
Capital and Heart on FM are interesting but really going nowhere fast.
Capital has a new morning show, as does BBC Radio 1. The guy on Radio 1 is a stern imitator.
Ireland has more commerical radio than you can keep track of, plus a few pirates. RTE is the national broadcaster the have RTE 2 as well.
On AM Capitalgold 1548 isn't half bad. BBC's Radio 3 and 4 and 5 are worth a short stay at best. 4 runs World Service overnight.
Try 1440 at night, that Luxembourg
1512 is BRT the run Radio Netherlands at night
1179 Radio Sweden's English at night
The radio dial on am is great at night..have fun
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Doc Searls - Re: Radio in UK/Ireland
4/26/2004; 10:34:16 PM (reads: 578, responses: 0)
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Thanks!
I'm taking my Radio Shack DX-398 (same as the Sangean 909), which is a fine machine. Has RDS, even. More about the whole family of gear here.
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