I was excited when I heard that Dave Winer was going to go to the Identity workshop yesterday as I knew he’d hate it and would wake him up to the sad state of the user-centric identity community.
Sure ‘nuf he writes that: “I had no idea what they were talking about.”
Dave points out that [...]

Auren Hoffman and Rapleaf have launched UpScoop - a “monitor your friends” site.  his is one I’ll be playing with.  Hopefully Auren will be making a few enemies - so his reputation ranking can be more realistic.
Takafumi Horie - of LiveDoor - claims he was framed. I actually believe him.
Listen - I appreciate Terry Semel [...]

 Mimi drinking hot chocolate

 Me and Dave Winer at the ContentNext party.  He’s celebrating the tenth anniversary of Scripting News.

Bloghaus at CES - congrats to PodTech.

No, it’s not Mike Singletary or Richard Dent - it’s Brian Urlacher.  The Bears have always been about Defence.  I miss Walter Payton - I wish he were alive today to [...]

I met with a new data center/managed hosting/CDN vendor today who implied that all the hoo-hah and special code that drives the Akamai CDN is a bunch of hooie and that all you really need is a bunch of data centers in various locations around the country (and world) and you can save yourself a [...]

Have any of you heard of the new Nickelodeon show “The Naked Brothers’ Band“?  Its one of those Partridge Family meets reality TV fantasy things that Hollywood loves to shove down our throats.
This particular show has all these famous people doing cameos and it started off as a self funded, vanity project.
Well guess who is brotehr [...]

 Beatles finally coming on-line. Apparently hints were dropped at the recent Apple announcements - using the term ‘the Beatles’.  Now that Apple and Apple Corp. have made up, watch for the first of legally available Beatles music to be available through iTunes.  I for one - will have to wait til it’s available on some [...]

Best practices for syndicating video work to a destination site while respecting content creators - by Mike Hudack (of blip.tv)  Mike has led the way in quite a few areas - like sending videos to the Internet Archive or supporting almost ALL the new formats, routing interfaces and protocols.  DISCLOSURE:  We’re going to be reselling [...]

This is a tipping point for professional sports, and so I continue my journey through the blogoshere.
I was gonna talk about these posts yesterday - but it turned into a busy day of blogging.
Profilactic sounds so - so - so named by a young person.  How can that be a product?  And a DLA in fact!  [...]

Dave’s post on home servers and extending the web - led me to think “oh gee, maybe I should have been clearer on what I meant by “being forced” to stop using the term ‘Server-in-the-Closet”.
That’s the original term I used for DLAs and as I expalined in that post - DLAs are the portal, the [...]

Thank goodness. Now that IBM has validated the usage of social networking in business, I can finally sell my company and move to Italy. I feel proud to be in the same camp and competing with IBM for the corporate white label social networking and blogging platform market.
We call it ‘MySpace in a [...]