Marc's Voice

Working on a new section of my book - in Amsterdam

I’m in my favorite city, it’s raining and that’s a good thing.

Cause I’m heads down - working on not just a new chapter, but an entire new section of my book “How to  build the Open Mesh”.

The idea is that I need to give more away in the treatise, put some meat on it’s bones.  I call it a book, but it’s more than that.  It’ll be a blueprint for distributed platforms.  A mix of business modules, marketing programs and user interface standards.  Call it a treatise, a rant or visionary diatribe, it’s how I see the future unfolding and how small developers can participate in this tremendous thing going on out there.

It’s a video, it’s a wiki (currently inundated with spam) and it’s a coffee table book.

While waiting on edits from Dan Farber - I’m hard at work working out an outline format which will…..

Well just stay tuned.

Meanwhile not sure now many people saw these photos.  While everyone else was freezing and hungry, I know enough about my body that when I’m tired and jet lagged, I don’t fight it. I just embrace sleep.  It’s actually quie luscious.

Better that than to walk around miserable, like the walking dead.  We’re talking 25+ years of doing this people - at some point you learn patterns.  My pattern is - when tired, go to sleep.  I then felt great the rest of the  conference.

Livecast of my fence and me showing off my book - thank you Robert

Robert Scoble shot a real-time Kyte livecast of our open mesh fence, and we talked about the book - I’ve written called “How to build the Open Mesh”.

The livecast had chat in it - so people from around the world were typing me questions during the  interview which was pretty invigorating.

The quality of the video is pretty funky (and it freezes at 24:00 - and just audio continues), but all the more better to zoom in on the message in the book, and not get distracted by the  visuals of the fence and my waving arms and ranting attitude.

I had just received a few drafts of the book - so that’s what I’m holding in my hands throughout the interview.

I’ll make sure that better quality videos are shot of the fence - don’t worry.  But in the mean time, I still have to run a software company.

As soon as I’m done with this post, I’m gonna go fix what typos I can find and put up a version on Blurb - since over 8k people get Robert’s Kyte livecasts.

Meanwhile I’m headed to Rotterdam next week to give a presentation on the book at EmmerceDay and I’ll be keeping it up to date as new things transpire in our industry (eg. the Portable Contacts camp Sept. 11th and this Friday’s Bearhug Camp.)  That’s one coolio thing about on-demand publishing.  I can just go and update the book’s source - and when you go to buy it, you get the most recent version.

Hold onto these early copies - cause I suspect this is gonna end up beign like Ted Nelson’s “Computer Lib”.