Donnerstag, 20. Februar 2003

Russell is wired: Russell gets a mention in Wired. How long until he switches jobs again?

Dave comments on Blogger: At last Dave Winer comments on the Google-Blogger deal. He does in fact voice the one reason I also see as probably being key to the deal: "weblogs in business". So far I haven't seen that mentioned much and until Google spills the beans we can all but sit and .. well .. blog. In all I reckon Dave is probably really p*ssed off at the whole thing - although he tries not to let that show. After all if you consider yourself to be the inventor (or let's say one of the key inventors) then wouldn't you be angry/sad/upset that no-one at least offered to buy you - and it seems Google never asked. Blogger has some advantages over Radio from a Google point of view as most of the weblogs are hosted at blogger and blogger controls the blogging software (there is no programm you have to install). So, Google can add new stuff - just like that - without having to roll out new client software to all the users. So expect a Google branding to appear soon. Internationalization as well. Many international bloggers are put off (I think) by English-only blogging software. Expect international versions of blogger soon.

West Wing fan: Stafan Stefan seems to be another West Wing fan here in Germany. I wonder how he "gets" his episodes? I've nearly finished watching season 1.