One of the benefits of having a far reaching empire is that you get personal reports from colleagues - in New Zealand.
So Phil Pearson went down to the beach - near Christ Church and took this photo for us.
GMT+1300!
Happy New Year 2 U all!

… why does he keep having geek dinners at the Cheesecake Factory?
There is very little difference between at&t rebranding itself and eating cheesecake. It’s all part of the wonderful world of capitalism.
So the next time Robert takes the high road on some idiot marketing people blowing gobs of money, ask him about the window […]

Esther loves to hobnob with the geeks, nerds and super hitters.
Here’s a few - at a new startup called Root.

In her own words:
the team at Root Markets, an interesting mix of mortgage-lead
generation and personal identity management. Mike Frumin, Eyebeam &
/ROOT architect of participation; Seth Goldstein, foundr; Josh
Reich, Carnegie Mellon & /ROOT, director of mathematics; R0ml- […]

Gunnar Langemark has been posting several insights, new ideas, discussions and status of the StructuredBlogging.org mail list.
I myself love the notion of RecipeML. This reminds me of something I pitched Meg Hourihan - when she left Pyra - way back when. That’s how far back some of these ideas go. Way back […]

Better yet - would you try it out for free?

I knew somebody had to pick up on that last post. And Chris Pirillo is the winner! I’m sure Stowe Boyd is close behind.
Anyway - Chris writes in a comment:
A 24/7/365 thing is kinda difficult without the infrastructure.
Yes - Chris you’re right. But my statement was: “I just wished […]

I tried to believe Stowe Boyd that the conference he put on at Berkman would be different - but it wasn’t. I flew all the way out there (Beantown) to do what? Listen to a boot camp on Web 2.0 for Harvard professors and East Coast intelligensia??
I tried to help Chris Pirillo make Gnomedex […]

My friend Paolo is having a perfect day.

I remember distinctly asking Robert Scoble- the LAST time we did a geek dinner at The Cheesecake Factory “why here?”
Anywhere it’s there - again - tomorrow night.
Right in the middle of a Friday night rush. Oh goodey.

Congrats to Loic - for podcasting Sakorny.
Anything for the Windows HMC is a good thing. Congrats to Rocketboom for getting there.
The future of legal music sharing is sharing playlists.
It’s official - Google will not be allowing access to all that Google Base content. Is anyone not convinced who the enemy is right now?
James […]