Dave Winer asks…..
Am I crazy or does Christian Crumlish look a lot like Marc Canter??
Marc Canter answers…..
“Yes it’s true - Christian is my long lost brother. Years before -many people would confuse Dave and I as brothers…..”

Clay raps it out - some more…..
Tom Coates has the first of what looks like a fantastic series of posts on the
new musical functionality, an extended musing on the distribution of
production, reproduction, and filtering of music, covering especially the newly
social context.
Over the next few days I’m going to write about some of the
core trends that [...]

From Clay Shirky via ElasticSpace…….
Coolio list…..

Jon Udell had an interesting post on Shibboleth, which is an authentication system for the Internet2 (among other applications….)
I met the Shibboleth folks at last year’s DigitalID world. They’re doing real stuff.
Anyway Jon brings up the notion of group identification, as opposed to individual. My feeling - is that we want - both!
Here’s Jon’s [...]

Justin Hall explains what he’s about…..

Two new articles give some sense of what I trumpet as a freelance writer. I cover technology, digital culture, and electronic entertainment. What I get most excited about professionally these days is mobile multiplayer - I have the feeling like mobile phones have terrific potential for play, for [...]

2004: The Year Of The PhotoBlog

The winner for Big Trend of 2004 has been chosen. Nominations are closed. (The image is from a Brazilian blog - it’s a worldwide trend.)
As it was portals in 1998, and blogs in 2003, 2004 is all about photoblogging.
The idea of posting photos easily to the Web and [...]

If I was into the stock market - which I’m not - I’d buy Motorola right now.
I’ve recently written about their new CTO, they bought a UWB company, Russell Beattie likes them and now they’re announcing a Wifi phone.
Isn’t that enough evidence of what’s up? If not - check this out….

1) America’s Digital Home taking shape?
Consumers associate Microsoft (54%) and Sony (52%) as key players in delivering the “Digital Den” (PR-speak for digital home) experience. However, when asked their preferred brand for the home media hub, Sony (21%) emerges as number one, followed by Dell (15%), Microsoft (13%), and HP (9%).
“What’s interesting is that [...]

… is like watching The Matrix on a Teletype machine/printer: you not only miss the entire experience, but most of the headlines picked up by the feed are uninteresting at quick glance, whereas the stories themselves usually are pretty good. Sure, better summary style might do the trick, as Jon Udell often writes about, [...]

One of the coolio things we’ve got built into 1UP is the notion of a game expert. Any kid can declare themselves an “expert” of any of our 11,000+ games in our database.
When someone lands on a Game overview page - ’some’ of the experts for that game are displayed….. (can’t show them ALL [...]