Archive for October, 2004

Flickr October 04

Sunday, October 31st, 2004

So I’m sitting here looking at my Flickr calendar thinking “it’s been a hell of an october for Stewart, Caterina and the rest of the Flickr team.
After closing investments from Joi and Esther (and lords knows how many inquiries to get purchased) these folks keep cranking out new features like there’s no tomorrow.
Or staging server.
At [...]

Adriaan continues to rock

Sunday, October 31st, 2004

I’m sorry I missedd this.
I always get to BoingBoing last - as it piles up the most # of feeds to plow through. Now on Sunday - right before going out to Halloween the truth emerges……

Cory Doctorow:
Adriaan Tijsseling, maker of the brilliant Ecto blog editor — used by all of us who work on [...]

Where’s the meta data? What’s wrong with Podcasting.

Sunday, October 31st, 2004

Lots of people have been prodding me into reviving “the Marc Canter Show” - which I did – just as the Web was born in ‘94-’96.
I stoped because the video I was shotting wasn’t making it out onto the web, or shall I say “I had no intention of spending millions of dollars narrowcasting my [...]

I agree with Cory - Apple is not our friend

Sunday, October 31st, 2004

I’ve been telling folks to watch out for Apple. They’re gonna fuck you - one way or the other.
This from Cory…..

Apple to iPod owners: “Eat shit and die”
If you’re an iPod user, you would have done well to have availed yourself of iPod Download, an OS X app that made it easy to move [...]

Finally got the images off my 7610

Saturday, October 30th, 2004

I’ve been trying for two months to get images off of the 7610 Nokia gave me. It’s an incredible smartphone - and I drool just thinking about all tehc ool things we’ll be able to do with devices like this.
The 7610 has a decent camera in it and I shot about 200 images during [...]

OK - I’m officially confused

Wednesday, October 27th, 2004

Will one of you Apple slave - I mean customers - please tell me why you’d want to carry around photos that you didn’t take with your iPod in your iPod?
Where’s the camera?
Let’s take a poll.
How long will it take for Apple’s 50%+ market share of MP3 players to be reduced down to 2% just [...]

Hey! That’s me!

Wednesday, October 27th, 2004

On my own - HAH!

Wednesday, October 27th, 2004

My message to Stowe Boyd and anybody else who doesn’t like the idea of bloggers getting paid to blog.
Grow up. Or even better yet - go get an academic position where the value of ideas and learning is greater than putting food on your table.
Stowe even has the gall to say:
- that I’m on [...]

Lucas Gonze interview

Wednesday, October 27th, 2004

Wanna get Slashdotted?
Then do an interview with Richard McManus - I did.
The process is facinating - an interview where you get to decide what’s talked about, an intelligent discourse happens at your pace and you even get to read it before it’s published.
This the way Interviews should be done.
And when they’re done with one of [...]

Dan Gillmor wins 2004 World Technology Award for Media & Journalism

Wednesday, October 27th, 2004

Dam - I had lunch today with Dan and he didn’t mention anything about this to me either. Not only is he brilliant, risk taking and on the Vanguard - he’s totaly humble.
Here’s Doc’s report….

Dan Gillmor Wins 2004 World Technology Award for Media & Journalism, it says, datelined today. The subhead continues,
Author of We the [...]