Ramblings of a Technology Addict

Tuesday, January 7, 2003

At the request of Tiffany and Bronwen I've added my Macworld Expo section to the top of my Navigation links in the toolbar. I'll likely leave it there for a while. It's got my unpolished thoughts and notes from various and sundry events at Expo and on the floor. I'm doing full unfiltered dumps because it might be more valuable to me that way for a bit.
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Day One Summary

Day One of the Expo is finished, and I find myself exuberant with the possibilities that are out there. In about two weeks, Apple's releasing iLife and with it, all the tools to really do more online stuff with my photos, in addition to doing more along the lines of DVD production from my photos, I can do a lot more with the stuff I already have made. Doing more with iMovie may be a goal in the near future, especially with new iDVD features.
I feel inspired by this Expo. Inspired to develop more content, inspired to develop MacSlash to include more original content, inspired to do more in the community, to foster some of this stuff. Maybe it's the Reality Distortion Field® that's having lingering effects tonight, but I really am excited by all the degrees of interconnectivity. Keynote also rocks my socks. This is a PowerPoint Killer, ladies and gents. I'll be doing a full review of its features in the coming month, for MacSlash and for here. Then there's Safari, which I'm using to write this entry, and despite its lack of tabs, this is a real kickass browser. It's fast. Like IE on the PC fast. It renders tables seamlessly. And for the most part, it's open source. It's built on the KHTML and KJS platform and tuned by the guy who wrote Chimera. Perhaps, we may see something tabs-wise in the coming months as part of the final 1.0 release.
Spent some serious time talking with the Asanté folks and the FirstClass devs today which I will detail at a later time, but I have found solutions to many things.
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Photos!

Photos from Day One at Macworld Expo. Posted via Dlink Wireless connection from Macwarehouse.com
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Well, we've survived the first day of Macworld.
After a long fight with IDG Expos, http://www.macslash.org was denied press credentials on the basis that we accept too much commentary from our users, don't provide enough unique content and don't have professional bylines. So, we'll need to make some changes.
I'm working on what we need to do, first we need to change to have real names in our stories instead of Vidmaster or AcaBen. Sorry guys, it's got to happen. We have to start doing more in our communities in terms of boosterism, interviews, and developer discussions. We need partnerships with O'Reilly and others.
But the City is both as gorgeous as I remember and sketchier than I remember. There are parts where the homeless problem has gotten far worse, there are parts that are infested with porno. But it's also got a beautiful appearance in others.
We wandered down Mission to Beale tonight for the Mac Managers Party (photos forthcoming for bandwidth...) which was great. Got to meet all sorts of people, Chuck Goolsbee of Digital Forest, Mark James from SoftRAID, a whole load of really scary smart people who've been Mac Geeks as long as there has been a Mac. I'm really outclassed in some things, but I did actually know which version of the Finder shipped with the Mac Plus (System 1.1) though. Wandering home, I am exhausted.
Five hours until I get up for Keynote.
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