Year: 2004

  • Scoble explains how trust can be contagious in groups

    Quoting from The trust network at dinner with an author that I didn’t know (in Scobleizer): How do you learn to trust/like/love someone new in your life? Tonight I was at a dinner of about a dozen people. I was asked not to blog the dinner. But, I only knew three of the people there.…

  • How to Save the World gives us a nod

  • Will they ever forgive us?

    Grand Forks Herald | 12/06/2004 | COLUMNIST LLOYD OMDAHL : Honoring a Guardsman’s request (via Eschaton)

  • the fish must pay

    And so far, the fish owe the farmers of California $26 million for depriving them of their water rights during the drought years of 1992 to 1994, according to federal claims court judge, John Paul Wiese . Since fish don’t have bank accounts it’s the federal government that will have to pay. For depriving farmers…

  • Posting to Drupal / CivicSpace sites with MarsEdit

    I had this problem recently trying to post to Personal Democracy Forum from MarsEdit (the Ranchero application I use with NetNewsWire, my feedreader). James Walker has the solution (using drupal’s blogapi with MarsEdit | walkah) – it involves selecting Movable Type instead of Drupal to get full category support.

  • Not surprisingly, blogging for the right pays better

    Bloggers paid to support Thune, oppose Daschle (Personal Democracy Forum)

  • Writing a book by blogging it

    Robert Scoble and Shel Israel have started a blog called The Red Couch on the MSN Spaces platform and are using it to write a book together with the collaboration of their readers.

  • gambling on your life

    Now that the referendum on war and family values is behind us I think it’s time we turned our attention to the center ring in this American circus and take a look at how the Republicans are planning to dismantle our social safety net. I read a little article in the San Francisco Chronicle last…

  • War goes well, if you watch it on FOX

    Quoting from J. Bradford DeLong (Most Valuable Outfielder): In the Agora wins the most valuable outfielder award with this catch: In the Agora: Ummm… Reverend Jerry Falwell, guest hosting on yesterday’s Crossfire, said that the Iraq war “goes pretty well if you watch it on FOX.” You can watch the video clip here. We report,…

  • "MSN Spaces is people!"

    Obligatory MSN hosted blogging service post, autoquoting from MSN Spaces = soylent green Xeni Jardin: Updated. Today, Microsoft launches their free hosted blogging platform, spaces.msn.com. What effect the service will have on Blogger, TypePad, Userland, and the like is, predictably, a subject of great debate. The service is free, and seems aimed squarely at home…

  • Froogle wishlists added to Blogger profiles

    Quoting from Waxy Links: Froogle wishlists added to Blogger profiles: that’s synergy, people!

  • No access makes the heart go flounder

    Been offline (mostly) since yesterday afternoon, with a few brief intermittent moments of access, during which I usually sent a big pile of queued up mail and tried to complete a few web-service-y actions. Line problems with my SBC DSL are the problem. I have to prove this every time by jumping through all the…

  • The Culture of Connectedness

    Quoting from Emerging Media Audiences: The Culture of Connectedness: This blog is about the intersection of tech-enabled social networking and emerging media audiences. Technology is pulling together personal networks of people for more persistent connectedness and giving them tools for creating and sharing content. Meanwhile, most media companies are grappling with how to capture and…

  • How to win hearts and minds in Iraq

    The following consists of some tactical suggestions for engaging with the population in Iraq from an active duty soldier currently stationed in Iraq who prefers to remain anonymous: One thing I would do is start taking an honest accounting of collateral damage. Moral considerations aside, refusing to count civilian casualties is blinding us to a…

  • Microsoft blogging service about to launch

    Quoting from Scripting News: Mary Jo: “Microsoft’s MSN division is expected to take the wraps off its MSN Spaces blogging service this week, according to sources close to the company.”

  • MT3 Bible available!

    Rogers Cadenhead’s portable, affordable Movable Type 3 Bible Desktop Edition is now available from Wiley. I’d love to get my greasy little fingers on a copy of this book!

  • Hunting for work via eBay

    Professional weblogger Jeremy Wright has figured out that an eBay auction and a press release may do a better job of advertising his availability than a listing at Monster.com (Investor’s Business Daily: Breaking News).

  • Disclosing blog sponsors

    Now that Marc Canter is spearheading a kind of transparent blog-payola system for compensating bloggers, the issue of full disclosure of one’s sponsors and or influences seems all the more important. For example, here is the disclosure about the ZeroDegrees sponsorship of the new Operating Manual for Social Tools weblog: About The Project: ZeroDegrees has…

  • Blogger dinner in Berkeley, Thursday, December 2

    Not sure if it’s appropriate to add semi-public events to Upcoming.org, so I’ll just mention this dinner here. I plan to be there, perhaps with some copies of the book in the trunk of my car. Blogger Dinner Thursday, Dec 2 in Berkeley, 7pm: 7pm At Beckett’s. 2271 Shattuck Ave, Berkeley. (510) 647-1790 Doc Searls…

  • Firefox taking the Web by storm

    If Dori at Backup Brain is right, a large chunk of the tech-support generation have installed Firefox on their parent’s computers over Thanksgiving or will do so during the coming Christmas / Hannukah / Solstice holiday, tipping the new browser war just a little more away from Microsoft’s IE. For anyone trying to learn how…

  • Blogging the Ukraine revolution

    If you want direct reportage from the Ukraine on their election crisis, then don’t miss this Ukraine Revolution weblog. This post includes a link to a “smoking gun” MP3 sound file documenting plans for vote fraud: Voice records containing voices of members of Yanukovich head-quarters and government discussing the methods and ways of falsification were…