Writing

Posts going back to 2003: technology, leadership, travel and food.

  • The Story of Saddam's Capture. The Special Forces commando had already pulled the pin. He was primed to toss the grenade into the “spider hole,” a Vietnam-era nickname for lethal…

  • Chronicle: “A massive San Francisco power outage on one of the busiest shopping days of the year turned the normal chaos of the Saturday before Christmas into surreal confusion —…

  • Marshall McLuhan: “The medium is the message.”

  • Bloggable campaign events today in NH. Dean, Lieberman, Clark.

  • Ross posts this note about RSS Winterfest. Dave is leading off-good news. Notice the name: RSS Winterfest, not Internet Content Syndication Winterfest. Includes Atom, too. RSS Winterfest 2004. RSS Winterfest…

  • Ed Cone on Userland's new management

    Posted here so I can't forget the link to the Wired article: I once went to a Userland Software staff meeting at Dave Winer's house in Woodside, California. Can that…

  • Adam on SJMN piece about a dying Internet

    Adam writes:. Reading this story about the possibility of the internet as we know it (open end-end networks) dying, made me think of an essay I wrote 2 years ago:…

  • Radio reads Atom feeds

    So I hacked Radio to accept an Atom 0.3 feed. Or did I? Well, I subscribed to the feed using Radio's standard mechanism, it's internal webpage. It reported an error…

  • Brain dump on discovery infrastructure for personal content

    Holy Sh*t! This means that we need a subscription signalling infrastructure for the three fundamental methods of communication: One to one. One to many. Many to one. Content delivery uses:…

  • My comment on Dave's Rant

    I'm reposting this here from comments on this post: All: Great comments so far. Very interesting discussion. Let's explore some other real-life situations where things needed to change but the…

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