In our efforts to be friend to all, we’re undertaking a survey of ALL existing Events and Reviews schemas.
This is for the purpose of creating an open source tool which will support ALL formats - as I’ve never met a customer who cares about what’s under the hood.
Bob Wyman has this theory that if you [...]

Speaking of strapping young men, we’re building software for these dudes.

My 3 sons.
They’re our users.
It’s incumbant to us to make sure our standards, protocols and code - rocks the house.
I can’t wait to get Dave involved in some of our efforts. Like ourmedia.org.
Nuff said - back to work.

Did I ever tell yah the story of sitting next to Dave Winer and watching him explain the Frontier object database to me?
All sorts of bells started going off in my head as Dave showed how a CMS, coupled to a scripting langauge could spit out HTML pages. I pointed to the exact point [...]

Scott Beale - with help from Annalee Newitz and Justin Hall - are putting on Webzine 2005 in SF.
UPDATE: Scott has also pointed to me - that Eddie Codel & Ryan Junell are the two main organizers, plus there are a bunch of others helping out.
I’ll be in Europe - but it looks like [...]

Had a great time in Michigan, however I got a bitching cold.

My brother told me he found out that I was around, simply by reading my blog. He’s doing some work connecting legal review of documents to some new technology automation systems.
Sounds nerdy enough for Denise to care about.
Meanwhile we stopped off in Chi-town [...]

Ever since Mimi saw a tape of an old circus (I brought my boys to) she’s been walking up to people and asking “Do you know Arianna the Human Arrow?”
So now it’s time for her first circus. Every year - Labor Day is the day for us to go to the Circus.

So I’m in MIchigan for a family reunion and it’s time to play catch up on lots of interesting posts going on out there:
Arnaud Leene has a great checklist of things that are Web 2.0.
Thanks Barb to the pointer on some coolio SmartPhone software for me to use: Wikipedia search.
Mary Hodder better hurry up. [...]

It was somewhat gratifying to read that Russell Beattie had been blown off by the inside cliquers at O’Reilly.
The more and more I look around our industry - what I see are closed minded, cliquish, echo chamber people - perpetuating their own pet projects. I really love the people who COME to O’Reilly events [...]

Hi everybody,
Most of you know I suffer from Polycystic Kidney Disease (PKD). But you may not know that PKD is the most common, genetic life-threatening disease affecting 600,000 Americans and 12.5 million people worldwide. Amazingly, that is twice the size of multiple sclerosis and PKD affects more people than cystic fibrosis, muscular dystrophy, sickle cell [...]

Congrats to JD, Ashish, Gaurav, Jeff Kowalski, Adam Fields, Bryght and the Internet Archives for being #90 on the Feedster 500.
Though I’m officially not into lists, it’s great to be recognized.
I myself am #250.