Open Media 100 List

The continued storied pathetic downfall of Friendster continues. I guess they could never shake themselves of Jonathan Abrams negative vibes.
Here’s a direct mail they sent me - begging for me to return. I guess they know a little about that. With over 16M members - apprently less than 1M ever go back [...]

I can’t tell you how blown away I am that Mr Kim of Cyworld flew all the way to New Zealand just to meet with Phil Pearson to show him Cyworld.
We’re working with Cyworld to help them come to the US - and this is gonna rock.

So thanks to Mr Kim - can’t wait to [...]

Review of Wac by Coffee Monster
The coffee at Wac is good. Not so sure about the food.
Great environment - both tables and couches, to suit your mood.

My take
Can you feel teh magic percolating?
That’s good coffee! How’s Mr Kim?
http://cyworld.com

Review of Robert Murray Davis’s Waugh novel by

I stumbled across this today, while looking for one of Evelyn Waugh’s short stories, and was drawn into it instantly. Davis evidently knows his subject extremely well, and manages to pull off writing a fictional biography of Waugh that carries through his style well, especially the [...]

It’s not 30 developers and we haven’t said anything about government funding, but besides that - here’s another great article on ourmedia.org - this time in TechWeb.
We’ve just put live some new code that speeds up uploading and gets us tighter in sync with the Internet Archive.
Folks are reacting - uploads are up 300%.

Announcement [...]

…. for sealing their deal with Lektora.

I’ve been ranting and raving for a while now on what is becoming known as ’structured blogging’, microformats and micro-content.
Lots of attention will be placed upon this next week - as the SuperNova conference will have a workshop on microformats - which is ONE of the ways to implement these notions of ’structured content’.
Broadband Mechanics [...]

“Remind me of the names and addresses of external blog comment systems.”
Hey Jeff - I hope you’ll be at SuperNova to hear Sxip’s announcement!