Year: 2004
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I miss my intermediary, sort of
After spending the last few hours figuring out travel plans for a weekend in July, I know that I miss having a travel agent. The internet is often about self-service and removing the intermediary, but time is money, too… and I just spent a lot of my personal currency. (Eventually, I spent some dollars, too.)…
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Book: The Sum of All Fears
Tom Clancy certainly writes some of the best “long trip without children” books around. Only problem is, I can never remember if I’ve read them all or not. I’m close, at least on the real ones (none of that OpCenter stuff). Two weekends ago, I polished off The Sum of All Fears. I’m fairly sure…
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Book: The Truelove
Commuting on a train is a great time to get a lot of reading done. For The Truelove, I have the MBTA (Massachusetts Bay Transit Authority) to thank. The Truelove is book 15 in the Aubrey-Maturin series by Patrick O’Brian. Most striking about this book was having a woman character on board, an Australian convict…
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Full-text feeds: the answer?
The RSS Weekly webcast today went well, I thought. I’d be curious to get some feedback from the audience, whatever there was of it. A recurring topic was the metrics required of RSS readers/feeds for advertising purposes. If full-text feeds are the desired goal, then, yes, advertising models need to work for all parties (readers,…
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Listening is interesting, but sure doesn’t feel efficient
Some time ago, I bookmarked an audiocast, XML Content Syndication – Beyond the Blogs. Originally recorded April 1, 2004, I listened to its this evening, several weeks later. Nothing new to me, but definitely some A-listers. There is a 21 page transcript, which I didn’t realize until 30 minutes into the 48 minute recording. Oh…
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RSS Weekly webcast
On Thursday at 10am PT, I’ll join a group of interesting folks for Monetizing Weblogs and RSS feeds, a webcast. I’m very curious what the experience will be like. Here’s the other panelists: Jeff Jarvis, president, Advance.net Jim Pitkow, CEO, Moreover Florian Brody, director, business development, Red Herring Rafat Ali, editor/publisher, paidContent.org
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End of the East Coast Swing
Just returned from two weeks bouncing around the East Coast, working and visiting in Boston, New York, and northeastern Pennsylvania. A good trip, connecting with friends and colleagues, but I’m happy to be back in San Francisco. When my body time clock resets on Pacific Time later this week, I’ll really be glad to be…
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Cursing the remotes
I know Jakob is both a respected figure and a lightning rod of controversy in the Web design community. I’ve continued to read his Alertbox columns every two weeks, although they don’t feel quite so insightful anymore (which probably says good things about the state of the web, however far we still have to go).…
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My high school didn’t have an emu
Combining Coursework and Views of Emus is a June 2 profile from the NYTimes of Millbrook School, where my stepmother teaches. She gets in the last words: Dr. Sylvia D. Roberts, a biology teacher, said that there “is a niceness that permeates the school, which is unreal in terms of today’s young people and values.”…
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Book: The Nutmeg of Consolation
I put out to sea once more with Aubrey and Maturin in The Nutmeg of Consolation. The Nutmeg is a ship loaned to Aubrey to replace the wrecked Diane in the South Seas, where we left our heros at the end of The Thirteen-Gun Salute. While it’s been a few months, I felt right at…