Saturday, May 31, 2003

Dave's Winer's Thurs Evening Salon at the Berkman (details to follow) I crashed Dave's weekly get together - not totally true since Wendy Koslow said I could come.  I didn't know what the ground rules were so I tried to behave myself. Attendees included Wendy Koslow, Donna Wentworth ( I think ), Wendy Seltzer, Sam from IBM, a Tall Skinny White guy - subsequently ID'd as Chris Lydon.  There were about four or five other people, mostly Berkman people.  Since we did a staggered start, we didn't bother with round robin introductions. topics and pull quotes (details to follow) What's a Weblog? Is there a place for Weblogging in the commercial world ? -- Dave's Scobal(sp) story -- Mike's "Boney Fingered Bitch" story.  Essentially a woman got fired from her job because she dissed her boss on her blog.  I gotta find the site.  It's not coming up with Google. -- Wendy's Weblog comments re Harvard disconnect policy picked up by the Press  Is Weblogging Journalism -- "Oh shit that's Chris Lydon. ---- I thought I recognized the guy when he came in but he sat right behind me and I couldn't get a look at him.  When he began to talk I recognized his voice.  It had to be Chris Lydon a longtime Boston talk radio host. -- Mostly back and forth with Chris and Dave.  Chris mentions "I.F. Stone's Weekly" as an example of a solo journalist.  I used to read him in college.  I thought I was the only person who remembered him.   Mechanics of Weblog implementation at Berkman 11:09:07 PM    comment [] Blog Sites Don't Get Much Traffic. Not even the best ones.  See Ranking by Page Reads. Adam Curry's site only generates about 2,000 hits per day.  Ray Ozzie's site only generates about 1,000 hits per day. Could it be that most of their audiences receive the info via syndication feeds?  Is there a listing of "Subscribers by Weblog?" 10:06:43 PM    comment [] Now I have some hope I just noticed john d hume's Radio based Blog and he's been able to achieve some of the look and feel I want to achieve in my humble blog.  He has posts with photos and graphic images included.  He even has text flowing around the images.  Now I only have to figure out how he did it.  Maybe I'll send him some beer. 2:38:19 PM    comment [] [ Mike's experiment in blogging  These posts and stories will be fleshed out over the next couple of days as time permits and as I get more familar with the Radio8 software ] Jon Udell's keynote - ( OSCOM3 - Day 3 AM ) Now this guy gets it and is speaking at my level - awesome presentation.  Thank god Bob Doyle video taped it.  5 minutes into his presentation I googled "Udell" + "Weblog" and I was spending too many cycles reading his blog and not paying attention to the live presentation.  I can see Udell is practicing what he preaches. (links to follow). ToDo's * Get with Bob and help him get the presentations onto the streaming server. * Make sure sponsors are listed on download page.  email sponsors. * mmm bandwidth implications - streaming can get expensive.  Is Bob capturing the cost for tax deduction or reimbursemen?. * Get with Udell and discuss implications of blogging for a professional columnists/journalist. * See if Taschek (PC Week Labs) is blogging. While on the park bench sunning ( OSCOM3 - Day 3 - Break ) and trying to avoid people so I can think through the implications of Udell's talk --- A Tufts guy hits me with Fatwire --- Guy from Atlanta hits me with iUniverse and his take on "hardcopy has it's place." And he's preaching to the choir. --- Gregor stops and we discuss the commodization of computer skills. "Mother's don't let your sons grow up to be coders." and/or "Make sure you're not competing with a bright 12 year old chained to a terminal in India." --- Dave steams by and hits me with www.opml.org... but then again I asked for it. --- By now I've got PostIt notes all over the place and I'd kill for some outling software like Grandview Wherein Mike Finds Grandview ( OSCOM3 - Day 3 - Lunch ) Bob Doyle grabs me on his way to a BOF to discuss whether we should set up a  regular meeting of people in the Boston area interested in OpenSource CMS and related issues.  Our mtge smushes with Dave's on a picnic table in the Commons.  Dave just signed a one year lease on a house in (Tony Liberal Suburb or TLS - name not revealed to protect Dave's privacy) and I'm wondering whether Dave will like TLS or more importantly, will TLS survive Dave.  Hell, I'm wondering whether Harvard Law will survive Dave. Dave notices I'm covered with PostPads and I tell him I'd kill for a copy of Grandview.  He tells me that in 19xx he acquired Grandview and productized it as ThinkTank. Further, the Outliner functionality of Grandview is embedded in Radio Userland. He says he hid the functionality because it was confusing the users.  I'm thinking... oh great... existential features. MW>> But I can't find it anywhere in the Radio Documentation DW>> Oh, it's there. Just Google "Outliner" + Radio and you'll see it. So I head back to the public access terminals in Austin Hall.... execute the search and sure enough a documentation page appears right on top.  Looks like all the functionality is listed.  The Google search also turns up a Udell article.  Something to the effect the one of the best kept secrets is that Radio has a great outliner. * Turn on the Udell feed. * mmm what's the difference between subscribing to an RSS Feed and putting Udell in my blog list? * Play with Radio's Outliner over weekend.   5:33:52 AM    comment []

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