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Friday, January 7, 2005
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 Friday, January 7, 2005
started 1/7/2005; 5:18:58 AM - last post 1/9/2005; 7:01:41 PM
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Doc Searls - Friday, January 7, 2005 
1/7/2005; 9:18:58 AM (reads: 5755, responses: 2)
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Mothering 
| | Many years ago, when I wrote the now long-lost Searls Laws, the first was "Logic and reason sit on the mental board of directors, but emotions cast the deciding votes." The second was "Invention is the mother of necessity." When I said that to Kim Maxwell, founder of Racal-Vadic (my company's first California client), he said "Of course. Thorstein Veblen." He was impressed that I could quote Veblen. I was so depressed and embarrased that I just nodded and kept going. |
| | Anyway, the Veblen Principle is what made Silicon Valley. It's also what CES is about. Or so it seemed to me a minute ago, when Euan IM'd me a pointer to this iTunes phone report. I'll check it out today. |
Wondiring
| | Allen's Wondir Weblog has moved from here to here, where it is now syndicated. Dig the scrolling live questions you can click on to answer. (He also provides a window for questions you can ask.) It was Allen, by the way, who coined the term "World Live Web." Which, with exceptions like Wondir, VoIP and feed-driven blog search, we mostly don't have yet. The world live spaces are still wide open. |
Vistas
| | I shot the picture above a couple days ago, after record rains left snow all over the Spring Mountains west of Las Vegas. The view was so spectacular that we had to drive out to it. |
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Dan Lyke - That's too long
1/7/2005; 3:29:00 PM (reads: 567, responses: 0)
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I prefer the concise version: "Necessity is a mother ...".
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panicboy - It looked like you said...
1/9/2005; 11:01:41 PM (reads: 559, responses: 0)
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Speedreading through the page, mixed up one line with the line above, and read:
"Invention is the motherboard of necessity."
Ha!
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