Cory Doctorow is taking time off - heaven forbid!
Here’s the message he just sent out…

I’m off for my first multi-week, fully offline holiday since 2001, and it’s about time. I won’t be answering any mail between now and December 12th. Here’s some alternate contact info for while I’m away:
* If you’ve got a Boing Boing [...]

After reading your ISCOC04 talk, I got my own 2 cents to throw into the ring. Thanks to Roland for the inpriation…..
I’m gonna pick up on your statement:

By contrast, the RSS model is easy with an almost arbitrary set of known properties for an item in a list such as the name, the description, [...]

The landslide of celebrity hirings into legitimate day jobs continues.
[via Eric Rice]
This time it’s the legendary Derek Powazek going to Technorati. It’s almost as if SixApart and Technorati are having a contest “how many old school bloggers can we get into legitimate jobs?”
In other words the gravy train has turned into a entire vat [...]

All sorts of reports on Juha Christenseen leaving Macromedia.
My own feelings below…..
Here’s what Rafat Ali said…..

: Juha Christensen, who was leading Macromedia’s big push into mobile content, is leaving the company, WW reports…apparently the boom in the space is too much for him to resist and he wants to start his own thing…can’t blame him, [...]

I spent almost 4 weeks in Amsterdam this summer, working and absorbing the scene there. I’ve been going to Amsterdam since 1975 - and this time was the best so far (even though it rained straight for two weeks.)
I get insulated living in San Francisco - as it’s not really the U.S. - [...]

Somone was bitching at me the other day “say how come you never bitch about Technorati? They’re down all the time, their performance sucks and yet - well are you taking money from them - too?”
No - I’m not getting paid by Technorati - and they ARE some of my favorite people (Adam Hertz [...]

I was totally delighted to read in Steve Gillmor’s Software Blades rant of his enamor of Adam Curry’s on-line OPML display.
Now imagine if that display was an actual working Web-based outliner?
It is!
It’s called the WebOutliner - and it’s been inches of being done - for - oh gee how long is it now - 18 [...]

Fri19Nov2004 Dinner with Dave Winer at Phnom Penh - Dave, Mark,me

Originally uploaded by roland.

I’m bummed I didn’t get to hang with Dave in Vancouver. But Roland is an incredible host - I’[m sure it went OK.
I wonder if they talked about “new kinds of [...]

It’s great to see Wirehog getting press - so I can write about it.
It was shown to me by Sean Parker of Napster and Plaxo fame - but I waas under NDA - but now it’s public.
The way I understand the technology - it enables one to share their personal medi and file collectioon - [...]

There’s nothing more I wanna do than put social networking into context (such as Gamers and Games at 1UP.com or Movie Fans at Glowria.fr.)
So the following post Steven Kaye is - right on….

I’ve left Friendster, and the only reasons I’m on Tribe.net and Orkut are:

I’ve founded groups on both, and dead as they both [...]