NPR conference postscript
I had a lovely time at the Public Media conference last week.
It had the feel of a user conference, which are really the kinds of conferences I like. And unlike the entertainment industry conferences I’d been to, these people are not so commercial and not bullies. Later, I was told that the [...]
Archive for February, 2007
28 Feb
Scripting News for 2/28/2007
27 Feb
Scripting News for 2/27/2007
Blame the bloggers
On the plane last night I read the first half of the galley of Andrew Keen’s upcoming book entitled The Cult of the Amateur. I’m not the first to mention the book, Dan Farber wrote about it in his reflection on the first decade of blogging.
Keen’s work is a book-length sneer at [...]
26 Feb
Scripting News for 2/26/2007
11:20PM Pacific: Happy to report no snow in Berkeley.
A social networking site with a fantastic business model.
Rex Hammock: “These phones are not intended for consumers, they’re intended for cult members.” Yes.
Can’t you hear me knockin?
If I had one wish, it would be that everyone who reads this blog would listen to the talk [...]
25 Feb
Scripting News for 2/25/2007
Dan Farber: Reflections on the first decade of blogging.
Tom Forenski says the center of the media industry has moved from NY to Silicon Valley.
Seymour Hersh, writing in the New Yorker, says the US Administration is redirecting its war strategy in the Middle East to undermine Iran, and as a side-effect, bolster al Qaeda.
Earlier today, Boston [...]
24 Feb
Scripting News for 2/24/2007
Boston blogger dim sum, tomorrow, 1PM.
Afternoon working group
I’m participating in Charlie Nesson’s discussion group about a project he’s contemplating.
Charlie talked about Harvard’s deal with Google and the role a university can play in building an open library.
In K-12 in eduction there’s a system called United Streaming from the Discovery Channel.
For the second time [...]
23 Feb
Scripting News for 2/23/2007
I’m glad the Scobles are listening to yesterday’s talk at the NPR conference. I was partly trying to influence the tech industry by traveling across the country and talking to an industry that uses technology. I’d like to discuss the tech part of this at Microsoft’s Mix conference in April.
I love Betsy. “George Washington [...]
22 Feb
Scripting News for 2/22/2007
Podcast of today’s talk at the Public Media conf.
You can help me save a few bucks by downloading the podcast with a BitTorrent client.
Lisa Williams live-blogged the session in OPML.
They did a live audio and video stream of our session; it starts at 4PM. An MP3 will be available, they say, at the end of [...]
21 Feb
Scripting News for 2/21/2007
Podcast player
I’m still thinking about the ideal podcast player.
The features that matter most to me are:
1. Self-contained, untethered synchronization, much the same way a Blackberry gets email.
2. Read-write, two-way, should be able to record and connect with a publishing system for automatic upload and feed production.
3. Must be a platform, that is, people other [...]
20 Feb
Scripting News for 2/20/2007
The Economist has a podcast feed.
PrioritiesNH tracks political events in NH.
Doc Searls doesn’t believe in “social media.”
Reading lists in 2007?
In late 2005 I was promoting the idea of OPML reading lists.
We added support for them to the NewsRiver aggregator, built into the OPML Editor (which is the latest rev of the UserLand reader, which [...]
19 Feb
Scripting News for 2/19/2007
Cool overkill use of technology. Rather than wait for the pot to boil downstairs, I pointed the webcam at it, went upstairs, zoomed in on it, and when it starts boiling I run downstairs.
Britain’s Channel 4 News “highlights the images and stories from Iraq left out of mainstream news.”
NH campaign linkage
Thanks to Betsy Devine for [...]
