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Sunday, June 25, 2006
Deeper thoughts 
| | Rex: We're not even at the end of the beginning of personal media. |
| | Sait to the kid at the pool today, in Handey fashion: I don't trust kidney stone soup. |
| | Jack Handey, quoted by the kid today: When you're riding in a time machine way far into the future, don't stick your elbow out the window, or it'll turn into a fossil. |
| | Maria Sturgess: ...you must understand that I am a terrible parent whose interest in raising an obedient, well-behaved child has long since vanished, and the only way my son will ever be introduced to the basic concepts of rules, restrictions, and repercussions is through the teachings of one of the random strangers on this bus. |
Grading the make
SFunday
| | Drove from SF to SB last night, listening to Sirius Satellite Radio most of the way, since I'd left home the little FM transmitter that lets my mp3 player talk to the rental car radio, and that radio (being a Chevy one rather than a Ford one) lacked the ability to play mp3 CDs. Hence, no podcast listening. |
| | Conclusions: 1) Howard Stern's shows are funnier than ever, expecially since Sirius now provides more channels and times for tuning in and tuning out; 2) Jeff Foxworthy makes me laugh more than other comedians on Sirius' (what is it, four?) comedy channels, perhaps because he's miked up close rather than from out at the edge of the stage ; 3) Singing with oldies is still the best way to stay awake. |
| | Anyway, today is a fun family day. I'll return to Real Work tomorrow, and catch up on throwing away most of the 5000 emails that have accumulated in my neglected inboxes. |
| | Meanwhile, a pointer to Kent Newsome's perspective on differences between life in the un/conference sphere where techies habitate while those in the First World remain mostly tuned in to other stuff. As usual, Kent is sensible and provides a welcome and important point of view. |
| | A few thoughts, before I head off. |
| | First, blogging isn't a business, any more than emailing or phoning are businesses. It is, however, becoming more important to many businesses. And to the nonbusiness lives of millions. This is an example of what I call The Because Effect. In the Making Money session yesterday, John Palfrey called this "making money Off blogging" (as opposed to "making money by blogging"). |
| | Second, for many (most?) businesses, there remains nothing wrong, and nothing broken, about Conferences as Usual. Between the parking lot and Bloggercon4 I walked past the vast Moscone Center conference complex. It was completely filled for the last three days with the PCBC conference, which serves the building trade. I'd be curious to know how many attendees of that conference thought PCBC was broken. Not many, I'd guess. For all the reasons Kent lists (continuing education credit, networking, etc.), they remain fine. However, I expect that, for some of these largely nontech businesses, new approaches to networking and improving professional gathering and communicating (such as with unconferences) will gradually bleed over from the tech world. |
| | Thanks again to Dave for putting it on, and for giving so much to so many for so long. It was fun sitting up front with Dave and taking notes for everybody else. Also to the CNET folks for the space and the help. And to everybody who came — in the physical world, over the IRC, and in the continuing education (or whatever you wanna call it) process provided by podcasts of the sessions. |
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