Category: Paleoblogs

  • Yes, Josh, There Is a Bill of Rights

    Back in 2002, I got this email from my brother’s brother-in-law, Josh Kiok. Kind of relevant. >Dear David, >Once again I’m shocked, shocked! I suspect you already know about this, but just in case you don’t, a recent series of articles appeared in the SF Chronicle about the FBI/CIA spying on the Free Speech Movement.…

  • My slides from SxSW

    These slides are only minutely useful as they are nearly all images without any notes or bullet points. When the podcast comes out I will work on synchronizing my remarks with the slides. I’ll be posting Ted Nadeau’s slides next. His were much more content rich. **Update:** Here are Ted’s slides:

  • Yet another friend metaphor (for twitter)

    So I just wasted, er, spent a half hour surfing twitter pages and poaching friends of friends. I noticed that I had a strong gut sense of who I felt it was ok to befriend, most of the time, but that it doesn’t necessarily map to people who are actually my friends or whom I’ve…

  • Bush vs. Watergate – Who Wins?

    A lot of people have said that the Bush/Cheney White House re-established Presidential powers that had been eroded since Watergate. How could they tell? Congress has not been testing Presidential power, because it was backing Presidential policy. Now there are two fighters in the ring, and we may at last get to see whether it…

  • Liz Lawley on 'why twitter matters'

    mamamusings: why twitter matters: >But asking “who really cares about that kind of mindless trivia about your day” misses the whole point of presence. This isn’t about conveying complex theory–it’s about letting the people in your distributed network of family and friends have some sense of where you are and what you’re doing. And we…

  • SXSW namedropping, day five

    Last day of interactive. Laughingsquid party at Ginger Man by far the best of the whole session. * [Laura Moncur](http://laura.moncur.org/) * [Michael Moncur](http://michaelmoncur.com/) * [Michael Sippey](http://sippey.typepad.com/) * [Christina Wodtke](http://eleganthack.com/) * [Scott Allen](http://www.onlinebusinessnetworks.com/blog/) * [Gordon Luk](http://getluky.com/) * [Justin Hall](http://links.net/) * [Ernie Hsieng](http://littleyellowdifferent.com/) * [Kevin Cheng](http://ok-cancel.com/) * [Min Jung Kim](http://minjungkim.com/) * [Jason Hoffman](http://www.joyent.com/) * [Jenifer Hanen](http://www.blackphoebe.com/msjen/) *…