NY Times: “The transformation of American politics by the Internet is accelerating with the approach of the 2006 Congressional and 2008 White House elections, producing far-reaching changes in the way campaigns approach advertising, fund-raising, mobilizing supporters and even the spreading of negative information.”
Eric Rice says Podshow is “Old Media.” For what it’s worth, I’d like [...]
Archive for March, 2006
31 Mar
Scripting News for 4/1/2006
31 Mar
Scripting News for 3/31/2006
Startup School, April 29, Stanford University.
I’ve been following the mixup over Scoble’s meeting at Amazon, from a distance. The guy from Amazon apparently asked Scoble to cut the bullshit and tell him why he should be interested in blogs. If I had been there I would have said that blogging is now an expected channel [...]
30 Mar
Scripting News for 3/30/2006
Some people have speculated that I’m going to stop blogging on Saturday, which is the 9th anniversary of Scripting News (also Apple’s 30th). I don’t plan to, although Murphy’s Law says anything that can go wrong will go wrong. My plan is to stop as soon as the end of this year, maybe earlier. I [...]
29 Mar
Scripting News for 3/29/2006
News.com interview with Guy Kawasaki about Apple at 30.
The second of Niall Kennedy’s SF Tech Sessions is tonight at the St Francis Hotel, 7-9PM.
Steve Gillmor: “This concludes the GestureBank Q&A.”
3/29/05: “It’s not the shape, it’s how you shake it.”
28 Mar
Scripting News for 3/28/2006
Steve Ballmer: “I’ve got my kids brainwashed: You don’t use Google, and you don’t use an iPod.”
Lifehacker: “FeedBlendr is a web based RSS feed aggregator that pulls all of your favorite RSS feeds into one aggregate feed.”
Podfeed does something similar, for podcasts.
HotelChatter: Worst Wifi Hotels for 2006.
My father has a very popular Flickr picture, it’s [...]
26 Mar
Scripting News for 3/27/2006
Today’s a travel day — expect light posting.
11PM Eastern: Arrived safely in NY. Easy flight.
Checking in from Terminal 3 at SFO. Excellent TMobile wifi.
TechCrunch report on Evoca, a new podcasting web app that appears to have it all, and can record Skype calls.
Jeremy Zawodny asks for ideas for evolving Yahoo Groups.
Jared [...]
25 Mar
Scripting News for 3/26/2006
The nine-year aniversary of Scripting News is coming up, a week from yesterday. It started on April Fools Day in 1997.
Rex Hammock on recovery efforts in Pass Christian, MS.
I visited the area in December and took pictures.
Mini-Microsoft on last week’s bad news and Microsoft’s reliance on Scoble to communicate with bloggers, among other topics.
It seems [...]
25 Mar
Scripting News for 3/25/2006
You can view the 60-percent-Vista-rewrite story as something of a software development IQ test. Anyone who believes that it’s conceivable is someone who hasn’t got the most basic clue about how software development works. It’s akin to believing that all the US troops in Iraq could come home for the weekend and then on Monday [...]
24 Mar
Scripting News for 3/24/2006
Steve Gillmor: The Allchin Tax Cut.
tvRSS just got a major upgrade. BitTorrent, RSS and TV. This is a really big deal. It’s time for all aggregators to learn how to do BT.
Marc Canter says Bill Gates learned to say microformats just in time for his Mix 06 talk. Imagine if he had learned to say [...]
23 Mar
Scripting News for 3/23/2006
Dan Farber: Craig Newmark’s modest anti-spam proposal.
Bill says to Mike, you better sit down, I got some bad news.
Some rational thoughts on A-list blogging. Like this. “Every A-Lister could stop blogging at once and the blogosphere will continue on.” You bet it would. Wouldn’t it be interesting if every certified A-lister, by convention, didn’t blog [...]
