I’ve found a new iTunes-compatible public radio station, KCRW from Santa Monica, CA. It’s a good station for me because it’s in the Pacific zone, so they’re playing early morning stuff in my early morning. I still like WNYC, WAMU and WBUR, but they’re on the other coast.
Anyway…
I’ve heard it said that blogs are [...]
Archive for the ‘Philosophy’ Category
7 Apr
Shared-discovery blogging
9 Mar
A rambler on flaming in the blogosphere
Talking with Scoble today we agreed that the blogosphere has gained many of the negative traits of mail lists or Usenet. There are certain topics that, if approached, will result in a flameout. So you don’t go there.
Imho there’s no point blogging if you accept those constraints. There aren’t many people who do the [...]
18 Feb
Blogging is part of life
I agree with the author of the Slate piece that’s getting so much play in the blogosphere, up to a point. The things that called themselves blogs that came from Denton and Calacanis are professional publications written by paid journalists that use blogging software for content management. That’s fine and I suppose you can call [...]
13 Feb
My work is not a joke
In the last week there were two really ugly incidents in the OPML community, and I can see other people threatening to do more. I don’t participate in these destructive situations, it’s very one-sided stuff. I’ve learned, over and over, if you feed the flamers, it just helps them do whatever it is that they’re [...]
9 Feb
How the NY Times came to support RSS
The history of RSS is usually told only in one dimension, it’s the story of geeks fighting with geeks, so they say, but in my humble opinion, that’s really not the story.
Most of the vocal people on the mail lists, blogs and wikis are more fans than creators. It’s as if we confused baseball players [...]
28 Jan
How to reform the VC industry
There’s a wisp of a discussion materializing in the tech blogosphere about reforming the VC industry. I have been thinking about this for many many years. It’s an exciting time because I think it might actually happen now. Here’s the rough outline of my plan to reshape the VC industry around the philosophy of the [...]
28 Jan
What is friendship?
Upfront caveat. There are approx 80,000 people who will think this post is about them. It’s not. That’s the point.
I write a blog, have since the mid 90s or so, and I sometimes write in a personal fashion, and people connect to that, which is fine, but it often creates misunderstandings that, I [...]
