Archive for March, 2007

Friendship

« 27 March 2007 | 22:43 | Uncategorized | 2 Comments »

Back from drinks with Jason. I’m staying in a hotel overlooking 405, the traffic light at 60 mph in both directions. LA is somehow feeling more like the 70’s now than in decades. I hated the 70’s at the time; a rough mix of post-Beatle depression and chalky outlines around the body that was the […]



InfoWorld

« 26 March 2007 | 11:32 | Uncategorized | No Comments »

I’m in San Diego at the O’Reilly Etech conference, in the Executive Briefing track. Seth Goldstein is about to demo his latest attention project, AttenTV. Out on the Net, the shuttering of InfoWorld leads TechMeme. Thanks to Matt McAlister for calling out my role in the late stages of that book’s evolution. As Dave Winer […]



Aftertaste

« 21 March 2007 | 0:24 | Uncategorized | 3 Comments »

Mike Arrington, Tim Bray, and Jonathan Schwartz made for an interesting menage at Sun yesterday evening. As usual I wasn’t invited, but Scoble was otherwise occupied and forwarded me the invite. To be fair, Sun doesn’t know what to make of me. When I was in a position to get their attention as back page […]



Blogopalypse

« 18 March 2007 | 22:47 | Uncategorized | 9 Comments »

Just got off the phone and video with Loren Feldman, who is approaching a complete system crash mentally. I have been eagerly anticipating this, not wanting to accelerate the thing for fear of creating a dangerous life-threatening condition, but at the same time hoping that the continuing meltdown of the flogosphere would reach an epic […]



Open Data 2007

« 13 March 2007 | 7:17 | Uncategorized | 1 Comment »

I’m in New York at the Open Data conference, hosted by AttentionTrust and Reuters. As if by some unseen uber-twitter, Ross Mayfield and Stowe Boyd have popped up recently with tomes on attention or the lack of it. ReadWrite Web also weighed in. The world shuddered briefly, wobbled on its axis, and rebooted. Hardly noticed […]



Affinity Services

« 13 March 2007 | 5:32 | Uncategorized | 2 Comments »

The GestureBank is a collection of individual Internet user activity that has been stripped of all personal identification and aggregated into a central pool of anonymous behavior, all under the control of the users. This pool of electronic gestures represents a new kind of media experience, created, owned and controlled explicitly by the users who […]