Archive for September, 2004

It’s fun singing and getting interviewed by smart people

Saturday, September 25th, 2004

Stephen O’Hears and his “In Search of the Valley” crew stopped by to interview me the otehr day.
Here’s his report/post….

The Marc Canter show (reprise)
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East Bay

— mrspin @ 7:36 pm

We drove down to Walnut Creek to spend some time at Marc Canter’s house. Marc is probably best known as one of the co-founders […]

Eric’s ready

Friday, September 24th, 2004

Next year’s Etech should be interesting.
Eric (PeopleAggregator) Sigler has his proposal ready.
I’m waiting till Sunday to write mine up.
It’ll be called “New Kinds of Micro-content” and I’ll get all the leaders of each area - to appear - all at once united in our determination to get this to happen.
Meanwhile - here’s Eric’s post on […]

Missed stories

Friday, September 24th, 2004

OK - so I now have a month of piled up - missed stories I should have blogged - but didn’t.
So here’s MY link list:

- “Honey, did you remember to call the DVD recorder?” - CNet article - pointed to by [Technology360] (Dennis L. Haarsager - Sept. 16th)
- “Thingster Event Posts” - by Peter Caputa […]

Missing Gnomedex

Friday, September 24th, 2004

I am super bummed I had to cancel from Gnomedex - but I gotta head back to Chi-town for a memorial for my father.
So my heart goes out to my brothers - Chris, Robert, Ross, Woz and all the other homeboys and girls doing the slopes, getting slippery and Rye or is that Bacardi and […]

Tracking Waxy.org and thinking about UpComing.org

Friday, September 24th, 2004

Whenever I start my rap on micro-content - I use the example of UpComing.org and it’s poor events that are being slammed into one RSS 2.0 text description.
I often recall that it was at that moment when I realized that maintaining structure in micro-content was perhaps my next life’s calling.
So I scan Waxy.og with especial […]

What he said….

Thursday, September 23rd, 2004

I’m bummed I didn’t get it together to hang with Mikel Maron when we were both in the same city recently.
He’s the guy who inspired me to go completely ‘web services’ oriented - when it comes to inter-connecting modules and functions together.
Whether it’s XML-RPC, SOAP or REST (Flickr supports all three) - clearly the web […]

Who was David S. Canter #1?

Thursday, September 23rd, 2004

One day I stumbled downstairs into our kitchen to meet Harold Washington talking to my father. Harold was the Congressman from our district and my father was explaining to him how he could split the white vote and become the first black mayor of the city of Chicago.
My father had been mentoring, encouraging and […]

Response to Steve Mallet

Thursday, September 23rd, 2004

I wrote a post about Ted Leung and his microcontent personality disorder needs.
Steve Mallet left this comment about the post:

His life would a lot easier if he published everything from his weblog. (http://datalibre.com) , owned all that data himselft and let others aggregate it. Imagine how complicated life will be for him when he wants […]

Qumana ships

Thursday, September 23rd, 2004

Roland Tanglao and myself have been involved in a little company up in Vancouver named Qumana. They’ve developed an innovative way of browsing and publishing micro-content - though today it’s still just blog posts.
But the drag-and-drop gesturing, the clean design and intuitive approach - serves as a new paradigm in personal publishing that […]

Writing a Social Content Engine

Thursday, September 23rd, 2004

This just in from Anselm Hook. We started on a thread about compound feed schemas and ended up defining social content engines.
I received this email today…..
Hi Marc,
I wouldn’t mind joining on the ourmedia project if you have room to squeeze me in - sounds like fun!
I’d want to introduce del.icio.us style tagging or if […]