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Friday, July 30, 2004
Ballgate 
| | If I'm not mistaken, Micah's discoveries are labels on the private sky boxes reserved for high-end ticket buyers at sporting events — and repurposed at the DNC for high-dollar contributors. |
| | Context: one reason we see all these new sports arenas is that the new economic model revolves around skybox sales. Bleacher bums no longer rule at most arenas and ball parks. |
Coincidence?
Maybe the best way to get your iPod on your car radio.
| | This thing, the Belkin TuneCast II Mobile FM Transmitter, rocks. Highly recommended, mostly because it broadcasts on any FM channel (not just 4 or 7), shuts itself off automatically in the absence of audio, and comes with a power adapter for a car lighter. The trick to overcoming its naturally short range is to extend the length of the pigtail audio cable with one that's male at one end and female at the other. That works because it uses the cable as the antenna (the ideal length is about 30", but few cable extenders are that short, and a long one works fine). Trust me: it'll work a lot better. |
Now add the iPod
Now resee this
| | David Rumsey, of his eponymous Historic Map Collection, is giving a richly visually annotated morning keynote at OSCon. For a map and art freak like me, it's like shooting adrenalin right into the corpus colossum. Amazing stuff. Beautiful. |
| | [Later...] He just got the first standing ovation of the conference. And that's saying a lot. At least two of the earlier talks were among the most mind-blowing I've ever witnessed. |
Then hear this
| | Yesterday's IT Conversation with Dave and the rest of the Gillmor Gang is here. Afterwards Jon Udell, Dick Hardt (of Sxip) and I went across the street to the Tom McCall Waterfront Park where crews were setting up for Red Bull Flügtag. Even though I remembered enough Deutsch to know "Flügtag" meant "FlyDay" (actually, "flying day," but... whatever) none of us figured it was about hand-made flying machines. It looked like they were setting up for a concert or something. Looks like an awful lot of fun. |
| | Anyway, we spent most of the time getting a briefing from Dick about Sxip, which appears (to me) to be one of the few outfits (along with Midentity) in the Tier I identity marketspace, which is a space I'd like to see developed. |
| | One interesting thing about that conversation was that afterwards we regretted not recording it. |
| | Relevantly, Jon and I later had dinner with Phil Windley on the patio of a hotel in the same park. During the dinner, Jon described a simple way to link to any point in a streamable media file, which was a need we discussed on the Gang show. It seemed way cool, and I hope Jon writes it up soon. I kinda wish we'd recorded that one too. |
| | Unrelated: I just discovered that about half my links in yesterday's posts were screwed up. Sorry about that. I think they're fixed now. |
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