Saturday, September 20, 2003

Avalon Nightclub. New York City Avalon Photo: The Crowd. I took a few photos, but campaign photographer John Pettit is here and he stepped in to provide a much better one than I could ever take. The connection in the booth here is up and down, and I'm working to get some more up, but this should give you a sense of the how the place looks and feels right now: The crowd at the Avalon Al Franken just finished his hilarious set and Gloria Gaynor is onstage now. And Janeane -- on whom I have a huge crush, which I'll just declare publicly now so that I can move on to other things -- says there's still a line outside. [Blog for America] 7:04:05 PM

The Hoax. Listen to the original "The War of the Worlds" broadcast in RealAudio. And the script is here. [The Cartoonist] 3:02:46 AM

War. This is your former Bishop Information Minister speaking. I'm still here. And I declare this Saturday today officially to War of the Worlds day! [The Cartoonist] 2:55:35 AM

Upcoming.org RSS for shared calendar events. Upcoming: A Collaborative Event Calendar   - Posted by Stewart Butterfield at 4:09 PM on Corante Many-to-Many Uber-nerd (in the best possible way) Andy Baio has a launched a new site called Upcoming.org, a collaborative event calendar. Metafilter creator (and social software hater) Matt Haughey has the scoop: Upcoming ties together a few of the strings that the past couple years of software tinkering has made for us. It's got parts of Craigslist, MetaFilter, Friendster, and weblogs rolled into it. You create an account and post events you're going to, and friends and others in your metro area can find out about them via the site or RSS. Every event is like a blog post that allows comments from others. ... Andy's told me that more RSS feeds, FOAF, iCal support, and Trackback implementations are on the way. Just like how Movable Type built upon the first generation work of earlier blogging engines, I think upcoming is the first of a new breed of social software apps that fills a need, and samples the best ideas from a previous generation of applications. I think it's baby steps in the right direction and I can't wait to see what applications look like in 2-3 years when a site like upcoming.org is more the norm. [Many-to-Many] This is a totally coolio new service and fits RIGHT INTO the concept of digital lifestyle aggregation.  One could EASILY add these event RSS channels into their DLA.   God bless Andy Baio.  God bless Dave Winer.  God bless Stewart Butterfield. [Marc's Voice] 2:53:41 AM