Mac RumorsConnie put me in charge the night before, so I was more than a little nervous. Finally decided to do Southwest as a theme because I just couldn’t get pumped about Greek. We use the Pasqual cookbook. It’s a terrific restaurant in Santa Fe. We had an incredible menu thanks to the efforts of Phil, me, ‘Rents, Jennie and Bob. Can you believe it, we were the main cooks.
Here is what we had…
Pew Internet & American Life Project. An amazing set of facts about how the Internet is the key to finding information for most users. It is far beyond the geekstream and into the mainstream. A nice study. Thanks to Boingboing for finding it.
Customer Survey Results. I’m going up into the snow quite a bit this season. Other than borrowing Jennie’s Subaru, I really should get a good set of winter tires. This looks like the best review board. It says, Pirelli Winter 210 Snowsport, Bridgestone LM-22 or the Dunlop Winter Sport M2 are the highest rated by users.
OfB.biz: Open for Business – OfB Open Choice Awards 2002. We’ve seen so many Linux based deals, I finally decided we had to have at least one machine running and using it. Just converted an old HP machine at work to use Red Hat Linux 8.0. Have to say it was an amazingly easy experience. Now I’m loading up on the best Linux software. Here’s a list of award winning programs
?The major hole that I can see is an Outlook replacement. Either have to run WINE which runs an emulator of Windows or have to us Ximian with an Exchange connector. This last thing requires an upgrade to Exchange 2000 unfortunately.
Chris Carmichael Training Camps. I’m going to have to go to one of his camps this year. The March one is closed unfortunately. Maybe the September one.
Lance Armstrong: Member Journals: CTS Cafe: Carmichael Training Systems Also, here’s a great place to see Lance’s training diary. It’s sort of like a blog. Fun reading.
Joi Ito’s Web: mail2entry script for MT moblog. Thank you Joi, Thank you Joi. You’ve just saved me days of work. I was just about to get started on the same project and you’ve done it for me. I’m going to be moving a bunch of folks over to MovableType and this was the one feature that b2 cafelog had over MT. Now you’ve fixed it!
Python Compared. A fascinating study list of comparisons fo different languages and how efficient they are.
Perhaps the best study done was by Scripting: Higher Level Programming for the 21st Century
North Korea. Hmm. This reads like a Tom Clancy novel and not a good scenario. North Korea could make a nuke in six months. South Korea is led by a peacenik who has never been outside of Korea. South Koreans distrust the U.S. and think the North Koreas will be enthralled by hugs and kisses. Uh oh. Where are Jack Ryan and Mr. Clark now.
Geek Blog: Two Towers review. I just loved the movie and I’ve read the book. Truth is that I can appreciate both. Someone in the long comment thread says that books are books and movies are movies. And the two don’t translate well between them. I’ve read a couple of authors and screenplay writers who say the same thing.
The sheer spectacle of it all was what got me. The scenery and the incredible battles. The emotion of it all and Gollom too for that matter
Anyway, I’ve ordered the trilogy. Lost it somewhere in many moves and have the extended directors cut of the fellowship. So rock on, I’m hooked!
TCS: Tech – Year of the Blog. A good summary of what happened this year with blogs. It is amazing how quickly the phenomena has made it out of the high level geeks to only the partial geeks like me!
…bloggers areasking for money. Few will make a living from their blogs – but then, few free-lance writers make a living solely from writing anyway. Other, non-beggging, revenue models are also in play. Nick Denton’ s gadget-blog Gizmodo.com, is reportedly already in the black (more than most web media ventures can claim) and Henry Copeland’s BlogAds venture seeks to aggregate bloggers to achieve success the old-fashioned way, through advertising. John Hiler’s CityBlogs and Nick Denton’s Gawker.com look like they might pose threats to the entertainment-oriented alternative-weekly market niche. And, of course, Big Media outfits have joined the blog world either by bringing in bloggers (as Slate has done with Mickey Kaus) or by creating house blogs, as MSNBC has done with Eric Alterman. So it’s fair to say that blogging has, to some degree, gone commercial.
Nonetheless, the beauty of weblogs is that they’re cheap. This is why “thin media” ventures like Gizmodo can turn a profit: it’s not hard to turn a profit when the overhead is minuscule. As Paul Boutin reported, “Media has never before been this lean.” That’s also why the number of weblogs – even without any revenues – has exploded beyond any counting. A.J. Liebling famously said that freedom of the press belongs to whoever owns one. Nowadays, that’s anyone who wants to. There’s even a blogger from Baghdad, and a homeless guy blogger from Nashville. You can’t get any more open than that.
What’s next? I think that falling prices for storage, bandwidth, and digital cameras will result in weblogs going multimedia over the next year. Jeff Jarvis has already experimented with video-blogging on his site: two-minute video clips with professional-looking titles and backgrounds generated by computer. Mobileweblogging, taking advantage of the ability to post pictures and text via cellphones, may offer anyone the opportunity to be a reporter. The next time there’s a major disaster or terrorist attack from an area where there are a lot of cellphone-equipped individuals, the first photos to reach the outside world will almost certainly do so via weblogs.
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