Meandering again...

Spent a couple of hours clipping Georgia news from web sites this am (here).  Now I am wandering about the blogosphere (btw, Marietta paper has a column about blogs -- the first I have seen here).  The Columbus paper features links to Dan Gillmor but no one here seems to "get it".

Technorati says Joi Ito has linked to My Blog Experience page.  I finally locked him into the blogroll -- but this has made me think I really need to get my writing together between whatsablog and experience there is some stuff worth thinking and writing about.  Course, sometimes I think my whole site suffers from BADD (Blog Attention Deficit Disorder -- hmm... maybe I should trademark that term -- could it be a process patent - no that would be the cure, but first - must write about the disease! heh heh - too much Sunday am caffeine).

Frank Field is doing wonderful stuff with the notes he took at ILAW, reorganizing the display and even linking to others of us that took notes.  I should do the same....

I am still fuming over the comment from the Governor's Task Force on Telecommunications Technologies stating that the state technology authority has no role in economic development (the task force sees it as a purchasing agency)... Arrgg.. they don't get it.  Dana Moore points to a report on economic development in Silicon Valley and concludes that regulation is killing innovation (he gets it).  The TechNet report on broadband policies shows further that the task force didn't get it.  So, where's my response?

JOHO remarks about the wonderful fact that Dean blogged.  And, how the "end-to-end" philosophy of the net meshes with the organizational philosophy of the Dean organization.  They get it.  Now, the netizens criticizing the quality of content from Dean -- they "don't" get it.  It's a blog, not a dissertation -- get over it.

Another thinker, Doc Searls, has two links to ponder: 1) Between Two Cultures -- his latest installment talks about the old model corporatism vs the new model individualism and 2) a link to The Underground History of American Education -- and Doc wonders why the State maintains its monopoly on education.  Teachers aren't succeeding because the same kind of bureaucrats that manage our buildings (see article here) manage our educators.  And, the incompetent teachers survive for the same reason.

But, the office space article also exposes what's wrong with journalism.  First, the new COO sees a partially occupied building because the budget writers (the very offices he controls now) have refused to allocate enough funds to speedily rehab the building (asbestos).  Second, the building authority charges more for space per foot than existing commercial real estate (something about how the feds want us to account for space).  If the journalist had done some research, the article would have focused on why government moves slow -- rather than intimate that the new administration has discovered something "new".

Windley provides a link to a CNN story on aggregators.  File that in the whatsablog category.  More reading to do.

Canter has great notes from the Always On conference.  He sees it coming.  He's the one that convinced me that blogging will effect everything internet.

Somewhere this week, I read a quote from Madison concerning the importance of an "informed electorate" to the success of a democratic republic. 

Then a story from Larry Moore where he talked about early telephone technology evangelists who would get on a stage and do a telephone demonstration as two individuals talked on a phone from one end of the stage to the other.  The audience didn't get it -- seems the audience was thinking those fools could just shout at each other rather than use the phone -- audience couldn't think of how to stretch that wire across the ocean. 

Now, where did I find those quotes????  Did I blog them?  where or where is my index?

The pool, my Sunday NY Times and a copy of Walter Isaacson's book on Ben Franklin beckon.  Isakson contends that Franklin was this country's first Yuppie...  Hmmm... hard to see the Revolutionary crowd hanging at Starbucks and driving BMW Z3's...

10:29:00 AM