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Sunday, March 12, 2006
Speaking of sources 
| | Then I remembered that I had parked a draft of my chapter in Open Sources 2.0, an O'Reilly book that came out last year. Recently I received permission from O'Reilly to go ahead and post that chapter somewhere. I don't have the final draft, and the parked draft is full of typos and not close to the final one; but it still has a lot to say, and I figured it's worth pointing to as source material for... whatever. |
| | Note that podcasting became a hot category without the help of a large company. Instead, it began with the demand side supplying itself. |
| | Now watch for big companies to jump in, and for businesses of all sizes to start making money. And watch for most of that money being made because of podcasting's open standards and open source components, rather than with them. |
| | It will eventually become clear to everybody that there is far more money being made because of open source than with open source. This is what we have to remember every time somebody asks, "How can you make money with (open source product)?" The answer is, "You don't make money with it. You make money because of it." |
| | The because of principle is old hat in mature business categories, but it's new to the software business. Too many of us still want to see "business models" for all kinds of goods that don't belong on the income sides of balance sheets. Would you ask your telephone what its business model is? How about your front porch? Your driveway? Your clothes? Those things may help us make money; but they are not how we make money. Well, the same goes for open source products. They are means to ends. You make money because of them, not with them. |
How about North Carolina?
| | ...many NBA General Managers — especially Isiah Thomas of the Knicks — could do a better job if they abandoned any pretense at all about exercising their own judgement. It would make more sense, I wrote, simply to draft or trade for players who attended either Duke or the University of Connecticut. |
Not to mention the difference in cost
| | The contrast between the two events was striking. SXSWi is impersonal, controlling, somewhat sterile by comparison with the energy of BarCamp. I can't help thinking that Unconference is the model more and more of us will adopt for the transfer of knowledge. |
| | Of course, knowledge transfer isn't the only purpose of a conf or even a camp. |
At your own risk
| | Ask a Ninja is funny as hell. I just wish I'd known that when I met one (or more, not sure) of the Ninja dudes at BarCamp yesterday. He was showing one of the videos to somebody else, but it was hard to hear over all the noise. |
| | You are alone, however. In a quiet place, no? You can ask. |
Great radio lives
| | at KGSR/107.1 in Austin. Entertainment Weekly called it "an only-in-Austin blend of alt-country, hippie jams, singer-songwriters, and lots of Willie Nelson, of course." (Sorry, no link.) It doesn't seem to have the non-stop funky personality of KPIG, but the music is in the same league. They don't play anything I don't like, or anything I'm very familiar with, which is an amazing combination. |
| | Wow, they just played Hot Tuna, Willie Nelson ("Shotgun Willie", an early one, from an album by the same name I've long since lost), Stevie Ray Vaughan (I have all his stuff, I thought, but this one wasn't familiar to me), a new Bonnie Raitt. Creedence ("Midnight Special"). Now they're playing a local artist; missed the name, but awfully good. |
| | They're not the biggest station in town: 39,000 watts at about 500 feet, from a tower 16 miles southeast of Austin, near Bastrop, the station's actual city of license. But they put a city-grade signal over Austin. Does the job. |
| | Says here they're tied for #9 in all listeners 12+, but I'll be they're strong in demographics that matter to advertisers. Hope they are, anyway, so they live. |
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