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Tuesday, July 27, 2004
I didn't even know he'd left 
| | ...perhaps it¹s Microsoft who should be very afraid. Integrate RSS with Gmail, bridge the desktop and mobile spaces with Alchemy, and it¹s gonna be ³Redmond, we have a problem.² |
Con(tra)vention
| | Dr. Weinberger: So, there we have the irony in the space of eating a single bagel for breakfast: The Convention folks think their job is to script an event for the news media, and the news media don't want to cover an event that's been scripted. |
Mydentity at work
Inside the Blogway
Scoblization at altitude
Soapboxless Journalism
| | I just heard a Democratic Convention honcho on NPR talk about how the purpose of the event is to "deliver entertainment" or something to that effect. I understand that, but it kinda makes me wanna barf. |
| | 1. Prove that you are the party that listens. Hold sessions -- not panels, not speeches, not lectures, not platform meetings, but sessions on the BloggerCon model -- with experts and citizens (and politicians listening and not speaking unless spoken to) brought together to have conversations about the issues and solutions that really matter to all of us: health care, education, taxes, defense, terrorism, the economy... |
| | Of course, it won't be a controlled message. That's just the point. It's about listening. It's about having the conversation. If markets are conversations and news is a conversation then politics and government certainly should be a conversation. Democracy is a conversation. Thus Cluetrain meets McLuhan: The medium is the message and the message is, "We are the party that listens." |
| | Try this idea out for size: The most important principle of blogging is the #5 habit of highly successful people: Seek first to understand, then to be understood. Then help the mainstream media understand what bloggers are, and how they work. |
Have fun, get well
| | Julie Leung: I immediately thought that "learning by dying" should be a principle for life. |
| | Reminds me of the refrain to Mike Cross' Uncle Josh, the lyrics of which seems to be nowhere on the Web: |
| | Livin' at its longest
is just a short trip to the grave
So you might as well go ahead and enjoy
what you can along the way
'Cuz if the doctor said you were goin' to die
wouldn't you do what you please?
Listen here brother
life's just another
terminal disease |
| | When I got back to the room tonight, I got some shocking news. My brother had been in a serious motorcycle accident. Although he was already out of the hospital, I heard that his heart stopped at the scene of the accident and received CPR. I don¹t see him often but we are close, so you can imagine how bad this felt to hear. He respects that I¹m doing my thing down in Puerto Rico, and we try to talk as much as possible. The thought of losing him while I¹m out here listening to ³Presentation Aikido² has left me confused and less happy to be here... |
| | But unfortunately, the sad news didn¹t stop there. I then got an e-mail from my wife telling me a women she knew died after having an emergency ceasarian delivery of her twin babies. This additional shocking news has rocked my wife¹s world. It was just last weekend that they were talking and now she is dead. This has made her very confused and left her needing me there, while I¹m here... |
| | For these events and so many million others that happen every day we never really know how great things are until they aren¹t. For me that is the crutch I lean on when things like this happen. Sure things are bad, sure I¹m bumming, but I got to keep going. I¹ve got to keep chasing my dreams for those who no longer are able, for those who never got the chance, and for those who will follow... |
Elevations
| | That's Mt. Shasta, from 37,000 feet on the sunward side of a 737 headed to Portland from Los Angeles. The clouds suggest eruption, even though Shasta, an active volcano, hasn't burped for a couple centuries or more. |
| | Shasta's continued creation has been rapid, as current recent geology goes. But the last big really huge event happened down near Mammoth, in the Long Valley Caldera, which was produced about 730,000 years ago, in an event that made Krakatoa look like a firecracker. It involved 150 cubic miles of magma, and deposited a layer of tuff so thick would have buried skyskrapers, had there been any there. The ashprint covered the entire Southwest. |
| | Anyway, when we landed I noticed a plane that looked like Air Force One, only smaller. I suspected it was Air Force Two, the Vice President's plane. Leaving the airport, I passed a number of road blockages, including one that featured an accident involving two cars. |
Nublog
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