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Soviet-style Monopoly
Hailstorm has been Scobleized.
If you think the world is flat, that's what you'll be
Dave says, "Jacob Levy has the most coherent explanation of HailStorm, from the pov of independent developers, that I've seen so far." But the link goes to a page that says Oops... You must be signed in to access the group ms-hailstorm. To sign in, please click here... But it identifies me by cookie as a Yahoo Mail user. In fact I signed up once for Yahoo Mail, but only to show somebody else how it worked. Now Yahoo wants my membership to default to that mail service, which I don't want or use. After trying to work around it for awhile, I gave up.
Request: don't use YahooGroups. If you have to start a group, use Topica or some other service that works with the grain of the Web, which is links. Anybody should be able to link into a post without going through the membership routine.That's the way it is with the Cluetrain list, and it works real well.
We're gonna unbreak that circle yet
I have a need/hate relationship with Live365. It intermediates about 30,000 live radio streams on the Web, and has the most over-javascripted UI I've come across yet. I timed it last night on Joyce's Mac at home. Over our superfast cable link, it took twelve seconds to download a 6 meg QuickTime movie, yet it took three minutes just to redraw a page after I clicked on a Live365 link.
So I've been slowly copying the URLs of the streams into an MP3 player's playlist, and trying my best to ignore the rest of L365's "service."
So here at work I just looked up URLs of live365 MP3 streams on Google, and look what came up: Radio UserLand : A Dream Realized
There is a circle here. It's us, turning each other on. We're tripping over, on and thrrough each other. It is so damn cool. It feels like the Sixties all over again to me. People sharing — syndicating, linking, crossloading, whatevering — what they know and what they like, with each other. And getting to know each other better in the process. Or, as Tim and/or I once both said, authoring each other.
I come from radio. It was what I wanted to do when I was a kid. It's what I'm still doing with my writing. It's why I can't turn KPIG off the computer next to me (where it's playing The Road Goes on Forever and the Party Never Ends, which would only be more perfect if they were playing Will the Circle Be Unbroken).
This KPIG connection, this Live365 problem, even Microsoft's Hailstorm scare... it all hangs together somehow.
I'm getting sooo close to rocking on this thing. Last night I downloaded Radio Userland and started to set it up when I had to leave. This morning I had to do a bunch of other stuff that was chancy with the box, and boom: it crashed. Not RU's fault, I'm sure. But I will get this thing working, and then good things will happen, as surely as rock follows roll.
Mitakaye Oyasin, the Souix say. All my relations. By which they mean everything in nature.
The Net is a world of our own making. And we're all related. Even though we never stop working on it.
It doesn't take unless you hear a hiss when the iron presses on the brain
Bix! clues us to Branding for Dummies by Gerry McGovern. Best line: On the Web, brands are supposed to *give* attention. FNA. Ask not, as link from the Motley Fool board. I think I made a mistake embedding its target in the midst of yesterday's blog. So I put it in stand-alone form too.
Give the boy bandwidth and he pigs out.
 I can't stand what a freaking good radio station KPIG is. Right now it's playing this terrific NRBQ song. Follow that link and shoot: you can rate it, comment on it, dig the jock's thoughts about it, or buy the damn thing. Here's the borrowed HTML from the current list of songs, every one of which kept me from tuning away:
Some of the links might not work from here; but go there and check it out. Check on the "DJ Playlist" link on the home page.
More Detail on the Moron Matrix
Here's the Soapbox weblog's account of the radio story I pointed to yesterday. The show's Web page is here.
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