I’m sitting here listening to Chris Anderson discuss the various aspects and insights he has into the ‘long tail’ phenomena.
I find this stuff fascinating - not from a macro-economic POV - but from the gut level validation of all my ideas and feelings - over the past 25 years. It just makes sense to […]

I made sure that Steve Gillmor and Dan Farber listened to Dick Hardt last night in a nearly deserted BoF - here at ETech.
It’s a real shame that Dick’s good buddy Tim - couldn’t find some stage time for Sxip.
Oh well - they will.
But at least Steve is listening and grokking.

This just in from Mitch Ratcliffe,
Folks,
Forgive my shouldering my way into your email inbox, but I wanted to give you a heads up on the announcement we are making next week at PC Forum. Persuadio, my new company, is tackling the problem of mapping the relationships between people and information.
This posting explains our first project, […]

For some time now I’ve known of Yahoo’s upcoming social network code-named Mingle. It got announced yesterday.
So here is my analysis of this new service - it looks really good.
1. Privacy
Mingle appears to go along with the trend towards more and more control over your particular stuff - who you’re friends with - […]

Tom Coates is on stage - describing the Beeb projhct on the ‘future of Radio’.

First they talked about a radio show which played songs text messaged to the show. Then he described another project called PhoneTags - which are SMS messages which are sent when a particular song is playing on the radio (the […]

I’ve arrived in San Diego. Please notice the aircraft carrier.

What is a bubble? Will we blog it?
David Hornik is defining a bubble as an environment where lots of stupid decisions were made. But he’s pointing out that companies nowadays actually have value - a resurgence of a tech economy.
Katerina has vowed that the NEXT person who asks her if they’re being sold […]

Eric Meyer is giving a session at SXSW called ‘Emergent Semantics’ - which (as opposed ot Emergent Democracy) appears to be the religion of the day.
A RESTful approach - which ignores APIs, meta-data and many other efforts and standards being established on the web today. There seems to be a pre-occupatoopn with ’simple’ is […]

So here I am at SXSW - and they won’t let yah ask questions til the end. But there should be some really interesting conversations today.
Topics include:
- why do the A-list bloggers have some many disciples? As soon as they sit down out in the hallway, they’re swarmed by legions of disciples.
- I […]

Wes Felter is here - lots of other Austin peeps.
Here’s Scoble and Eric Rice:

Zeldman is going over the same old issues - XHTML standards, coolio insider clique games (geting into conferences w/o paying), and….
He’s also just siad he was afraid that his baby was on fire.