Clearwater and a Winter Rose ( OL ) Clearwater.
That was a fun show tonight. It sounded fantastic and everybody played
wonderful. Instead of going into Davo's percussion solo in Duende del Amor
full spead, we built it up slowly - barely playing anything during the
first few bars. Davo, Jon and I can do that well - hinting at the
rhythm... the other day the end section of La Luna was super
funky, yet really sparse... Anyway, I had a blast tonight. The guitar
sounds great - I have returned to my 2002 DeVoe Negra for this tour. It
has aged so beautifully. It handles the soft playing for the Pavane just as well as anything that's hard and fast. By (Ottmar). [Ottmar Liebert]
9:21:38 PM
Dan
Bricklin just sent me email about his inclusion of Gillmor Gang and
Gillmor Daily on his Top Ten Sources page. Dan talks about this here. As he says in the email:
I listed them because I listen to them. I also linked to the ITConversations show with Winer, Curry, and Firesign Theater in an essay about the Genre of Podcasting.
Notes From Dave Winer 12/6/05 This morning I sent an email
to John Palfrey, executive director at Berkman Center, asking if he was
interested in looking at the history of podcasting in a formal way. I
thought of Berkman first for a few reasons. 1. I was a research fellow
there during two important years in the evolution of podcasting. A lot
of the events happened there, and at the first two BloggerCons, that
were hosted there. 2. Wikipedia's leading spokesperson, Jimmy Wales, is
currently a fellow at Berkman, so their interest in the future of
Wikipedia is also clear. 3. Harvard likes to partner with other
universities, so if there is an interest in this among others
elsewhere, it seems Berkman might be able to coordinate. I think this
investigation, if it's going to be done right, must be done slowly and
deliberatively, with all the participants included, without favoring
any particular set of facts. And the work must be done with a larger
goal of helping set a precedent for future work in Wikipedia. [Scripting News]
8:23:45 PM
Hi John -- I'm writing to you today as the Executive Director at Berkman.
I wonder if you've been following the whole mess over Wikipedia and podcasting over the last few days.
I
think basically it's going to turn out to be a good thing that it
happened, because we can now perhaps involve some serious academics in
the process, for touchy subjects like podcasting, where all the
principals are alive and active, and some have commercial interests,
and some of them start abusing the Wikipedia for those commercial
interests.
There's an email being circulated among some of
the people involved in podcasting that we all work with a historian to
get the accurate story published and perhaps on Wikipedia. I think this
is one level too involved, I shouldn't be part of the process of
deciding even who the historian is, and I don't think there should be a
single "official" historian that's approved of by anyone in particular.
Then what's next, Adam's official historian, and my official historian?
It could get out of hand quickly, and of course whoever we approve of
could be attacked simply because he or she was approved of.
So, as far as I know you don't have anything to do with the development of podcasting.
What do you think is a good approach for this?
Is this something that perhaps Berkman would like to take a role in?
Do you have a conflict because I was a fellow there and Wales is one now?
Do you have any thoughts on other people I might send such an email to?
Noah Brier recently completed a brief, two-part series on "unbundled media" and he sees attention playing a role:
It's going to be about working directly with the creators and attaching advertising directly to video content, rather than running it as a pre-roll on a website. It's going to be about finding the connectors (maybe with the help of AttentionTrust)
and getting the products in their hands for them to blog about. It's
going to be about providing a destination site that adds value to
customers by acting as an aggregator of news and content (even if it
comes from your competitor). It's going to be about getting a voice
into the community that speaks their language and can be trusted. It's
going to be about being inventive, innovative, exciting and most of
all, fast.
Lo,
I have returned after a) being stranded at the Munich airport for 4
hours on Saturday morning in an ice storm, b) missing my connecting
flight in Amsterdam and having to spend the night in Schiphol, and c)
sharing an 8-hour trans-Atlantic flight with multiple screaming infants
and some asshat who wouldn't stop kicking the back of my seat.
Whee.
Photos of my trip, meagre though they may be, can be viewed here.
Gute Nacht.
UPDATE: Now that I've had a bit of sleep, I'd like to elaborate a
bit on the "screaming infant" portion of my trip. When I say
"screaming", I mean it...nonstop...top of their little lungs, for hours
on end. The parents made absolutely no attempt to console or distract
them, nor had they brought any playthings on board. The passengers in
the nearby seats were yelling at these parents to try to get them to
attend to their children, but they just sat in their seats like drugged
zombies. Finally, some volunteers began distracting the poor kids by
playing with them and they eventually calmed down for the rest of the
flight.
Now, I've flown with my kids many times when they were babies and we
never, ever ignored them when they cried, deprived them of toys, and
refused to change their diapers for the entire flight. I mean, WTF?!
This flight had originated in Bombay, and the children involved were
all Indian. Is this a reflection of some sort of cultural gap between
Asian and European child-rearing techniques that I was hitherto unaware
of, or is it just piss-poor parenting? Inquiring minds want to know.
It's been a long and busy, but entertaining week in beautiful, downtown Vaterstetten.
I've taught 2 classes to 12 students from 5 different countries,
including Italy, Austria, the Czech Republic, the U.K. and of course,
Germany.
One of the good things about having a lot of out-of-towners in the
class is that one never lacks for sociable companionship in the
evening. We've mostly hung out here in Vaterstetten at a Greek
restaurant near our hotel. The proprietors and the waitstaff are
incredibly nice and the food is excellent. They've also been providing
us with plenty of free shots of Metaxa and Ouzo both before, and after
dinner. Opa!
I've made it into downtown Munich a couple of times this week. I took the Brits with me to the infamous Hofbräuhaus so they could see real Bavarians
playing Oompah music, slapping their shoes, and dancing around in
Lederhosen and Dirndls. We enjoyed the spectacle, particularly after
drinking a couple of Beers As Big As Our Heads[tm].
Last night, I went downtown with the 2 Italians and the Czech for a somewhat more authentic experience at the Weisses Brauhaus. The place was packed to the rafters, but we managed to find a place to sit and enjoy the excellent Weissbeir and the gute burgerliche kuche (good downhome cookin') in huge portions. I had Tellerfleisch (boiled beef) with potato salad and grated horseradish. Heavenly.
I'm leaving tomorrow morning for home. It's been fun, but I'm ready to sleep in my own bed again.
Lo,
I have returned after a) being stranded at the Munich airport for 4
hours on Saturday morning in an ice storm, b) missing my connecting
flight in Amsterdam and having to spend the night in Schiphol, and c)
sharing an 8-hour trans-Atlantic flight with multiple screaming infants
and some asshat who wouldn't stop kicking the back of my seat. 
It's been a long and busy, but entertaining week in beautiful, downtown 
