Dave Winer points out in some comments here that what we was really trying to say was:
You guys want users to enter metadata, I’m looking for ways to get around tha because I have found that people don’t even spell things right, much less label things.
He’s right- of course.
Nobody wants to attach tags, categorize, define [...]

Doing private screening of Academy Award nominees on one of those digitally encrypted DVD decks on Friday night and am available (so far) on Saturday - if anybody wants to party at Camdem Locks or wherever. 
Maybe hang at a Rasta recording studio in Notting Hill?

I’ll be speaking at a conference called “Summit for the Future” in Amsterdam - May 3-5 - for it looks like I’ll be there for the Queen’s birthday.
At least this won’t be one of those ‘tech’ conferences.

Here’s a great post by Danny Ayers analyzing what it’ll take to implement an idea Dave Winer wrote about - personalized search.
As many of you may know - Danny is all about rdf and the upper case semantic web - so Danny uses Dave’s idea to launch into a detailed analysis of the factors that [...]

The only negative thinghappened at the StructuredBlogging.org announcement was when Niall Kennedy reported - from the back of the auditorium - that our feeds didn’ validate in the WC3 validator.
 My answer: “we’ll fix it.”
So we have.
Any other complaints?  We’re Wordpress 2.0 compliant, 1,000,000,000,000% microformats complaint and available for Moveable Type - too.
 

UPDATE:  WE ain’t done [...]

Any dude who blogs about his family and listens to “Let it Bleed” is alright by me.
Thanks dude

Anina reports to us from a fashion shoot. She is also hanging with a prima ballerina.
Models and ballerina seem to fit together.
Anina is starting to position herself as the bridge between the fashion world and technology.

Guess what shipped?
Available at Amazon now.
Congrats to Robert and Shel on the publishing of Naked Conversations.
 
 

We’re cleaning up mistakes from 2005 and closing up on several projects that should have shipped already.
Gaurav muses on actually having to “roll up his sleeves”.
Gaurav has done more in three hours than M______ (name withheld to protect the guilty) did in three months.   Soon we’ll finally fbe able to show olks what we’ve been up to.

I too also fondly remember the old Vegas. The Rat pack, Shel Adelson, COMDEX - ah the good old days.