Steve Gillmor’s GestureLab

One of the advantages of being so far behind the blogostream is that I get to read Nick Carr after we’ve done a show on his target, in this case Microsoft a year after Ray Ozzie’s famous memo. On this week’s Gillmor Gang, we go slow and deep on the same issues Nick refactors, particularly […]

Those of you waiting for this week’s Gillmor Gang should look for the episodes to start streaming tomorrow morning some time. I received a nice note from Doc Searls explaining his absence, but nothing from Mike Arrington, who apparently is on vacation beyond email for the next week. I saw Yahoo’s Chad Dickerson tonight at […]

this is another test of the google docs to wordpress

Late last night Marshall Kirkpatrick of Techcrunch IMed me about a Flickr patent application that appears to attempt to privatize attention data, their “special sauce” they call lookingforness. Thomas Hawk, who I’ve come to know recently for his gentlemanly intelligence and skill as a digital photographer, posted on the subject in the context of his […]

I've set up Google Docs to post via the metaweblog api to GestureLab. Unfortunately, the post does not appear, except under Scheduled Entries, where it announces it will appear in 7 hours. Any ideas why? Oddly, the Post timestamp in both this and the errant post are correct, i.e. within 20 minutes of each other. […]

A few nights ago I wrote a quick post on the death of TV. It attracted quite a bit of attention, not Scoble attention, mind you, but quite a bit for something Dave Winer didn't point at. I love the mechanics of this quasi-page view game: lots of well-reasoned arguments with the central thesis, a […]

YouTube, Digg, and MySpace took out TV a few months back, and now the corpse is sitting up and taking notice. Latest evidence is the incipient obliteration of Studio 60, the West Wing sequel which is terrific and therefore doomed, in favor of 30 Rock, which is not and therefore not. At least we don't […]

from Jonathan Schwartz' blogroll.

Nick Carr gets perilously close to jumping his own shark when he asks when does free get predatory. I knew he could go there some months ago when he listed Google as merely a disruptor of "real" platformers such as Microsoft and Apple. Perhaps Nick has a bit of an Innovator's Chasm he's having difficulty […]

I was talking to Jeff Clavier last night. He was just dropping in to say hi to his friend Ismael Ghalimi, the brains behind the Office 2.0 conference. What struck me was Jeff's story of how Ismael went from a standing start to a full-blown conference in a year. The event thus represents his deep […]

Thanks to Dan Farber's intersession, I received a pass to the Office 2.0 conference in San Francisco. With Ray Lane's words still ringing from the Salesforce media lunch on Monday (lots of dead men walking), I arrived too late to catch Dan's conversation with Esther Dyson but did hear Andrew McAfee deliver a well-researched […]

and gets reamed for his trouble. But he gets a good post out of it, and that's something. Something really good, in fact. Because most of this new Blogosphere 2.0 is just crap. Well designed, timely, Seth Godinesque, crapola. Even, or especially, this post.
Arrington is at his best when he puts one sentence in front […]

Doc tells newspapers to open their archives (good idea) and link into everything (not a good idea.) Post-dating links makes sense in the vanilla world of perfect page rank, click integrity, and other fantasy worlds I would call Third Life, the one after the one I haven't got time for.
Dan and David toss the Attention […]

Gesturemania is showing sure signs of breaking out. The last few days have brought a flurry of attention (cough) about an attention specification, Kim Cameron's gesture grokking as channeled by Doc Searls, and the entrance of Google Reader into the RSS attention commons. Immersed as I've been with Robert Anderson in preparing GestureBank for the […]