Steve Gillmor’s GestureLab

Just a note to let you know I'm thinking of you. Recording a Gillmor Daily this afternoon with Dan Farber, and then getting to editing the Gang session we recorded on Tuesday. Doc has a Suitwatch coming up that points at it, so I've promised him it will be largely available tomorrow.
Later today I pick […]

Some chickens may start coming home to roost now that Google is going semi-public with their Office strategy. For starters, can we now agree to stop listening to denials from Eric Schmidt and others about this? Doubt it.
Next, can we start watching more carefully who insists the Google Office strategy doesn't exist? Doubt it. Seems […]

Just finished recording the Last Gillmor Gang. Of course, for those who pay attention, I'm calling every show from now on the Last one, under the assumption that one of these days I'll be right. It's another good one, which I'll start mixing in a few hours, and it will spool out in at least […]

Something stinks about the AOL firing of its CTO. On its face, it's a simple deal: you snooze you lose. A subordinate screws up, you're both gone. But my gut tells me that AOL is perpetuating the damage, by expressing their inability to process this event in any but a binary you're-gone knee jerk. The […]

A strange toboggan ride this week. Strapped in to the cockpit was the resolute Nick Carr, ready to do battle once more against the arrayed gigolos of blogdom. Like a Commodore Perry wiping the grit from his goggles, Our Nick lay ready in wait for the nincompoops of the net.
It wasn't always like this, you […]

The stream of information into my inforouter has reached an unmanagable level of overflow. This is bad news, forcing me into TechMeme, Scripting News, Valleywag, and Between the Lines as a triage strategy to become acceptably uninformed. However, this is good news, because the collapse of the inforouter paves the way for application strategies under […]

Digg sucks because it uses the page view model as its engine. The headlines are designed to attract: something about lossless iTunes audio pulls me in but then the payoff is that hard drive size will encourage larger hard drives. How about a headline that discourages clicking: iTunes lossless audio coming; not soon enough. Then: […]

Today's recording of the Gillmor Gang produced some mixed feelings. On the one hand, it was nice to hear from Mike Arrington and Jason Calacanis, or as someone put it Calacarrington, light-sabering with each other. I'm grateful for their interest in being on the show, though Jason's bailout at the hour mark to do an […]

First, Seth and I need to lock down on my strategy to turn the conference into a political convention. Not an unconference, not an ETech or a PC Forum, but a new hybrid television show/interactive alliance matrix that informs the community of their fundamental choice: line up with AOS or risk gestribution.
So, sponsorships model needs […]

As Scott Trotter points out in a comment, my InfoRouter feed has been redirected to this GestureLab feed. I've sent email to Nick Bradbury with Scott's report about FeedDemon. It's updated as well in Rojo, but interestingly it continues to list the old info about the feed:
Steve Gillmor's InfoRouter
Your data, your attention
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He's the Golden Boy of the Valley, and everyone wants to come to his party (I'm number one on the list.) So what is he doing this dog day of August? Doing tech support for the Washington Post. Hopefully he'll post something about all these mainstreamers calling him up and asking for an explanation about […]

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Last night at the WordCamp party I was told by several people that I could switch the blog display from excerpting to full text. I think they were talking about the RSS feed, which is already doing that. I hope they are right in saying there is a way to change the blog presentation, or […]

Just got off the phone with Doc Searls, who was farting out the door in the hallway in Cambridge. Doc asserts that while rarely does a day pass without hearing men farting, women fart only very occasionally and auspiciously, at least audibly. Now back to our movie, "Citizen Kane" starring Jason Calaconis.

I'm having a surprising amount of fun writing this blog given that no one is reading it. It's like the pleasure I get being told by Fred Wilson, who I admire tremendously, that my no link theory is crap. He's basing this on a response to Robert Scoble's account of a conversation he had […]

It used to be (Thursday) that if you had a great conversation with Scoble and all things were revealed and understood, that if, on the way home, he ran into somebody who captivated him with some detail about Second Life or other, he'd post about that. Last in, first out.
Well, not sure what happened or […]