Monday, April 19, 2004

Weblog coverage of families of American war victims in Iraq? 

NY Times article on BloggerCon. "The meeting was appropriately ad hoc, with no expert panels or keynote speakers. The participants -- whether they had been posting for three weeks or five years -- took turns voicing their opinions, snapping digital photos, recording videos, and, of course, blogging on their laptops through it all."  

Tara Liloia blogs all who blogged BloggerCon. 

High temps, low humidity and high winds, yield a Red Flag Warning for Boston and environs today.  

Mitch Kapor: Korea and the Political Promise of the Net. 

Kevin Reynen: "I decided to create a photomosaic of Bill Gates from images and logos of the companies Microsoft has bought or crushed."  

Bought my Eurail pass this morning. Unlimited travel in all the countries. I may just spend seven days riding the train. So many places I've never been. Dinner in Prague, breakfast in Budapest, bratwurst in Bavaria? Bernie Goldbach says Destination Budapest is a pretty cool trip. BTW, I didn't say breakfast in Bavaria, I called for bratwurst in Bavaria. Though you can have bratwurst for breakfast, I've done it, and it works. Lance Knobel likes the strangeness and grittiness of Budapest. I guess I gotta go. Hungarian goulash! 

InfoWorld: Can Email be Saved? 

Register: The future of Weblogging. 

Shocking revelation last night in the 60 Minutes interview with Bob Woodward -- a conspiracy to manipulate oil prices before the November election in order to get Bush re-elected. 

How to do a BloggerCon 

In the last Fat Man Sings session (in which the fat man didn't sing) it was suggested that I write a howto that explains how to do a BloggerCon. At that moment, as I was about to complete the job, the thought of doing more work for BC seemed pretty horrible. But the idea stuck and I think it's a worthwhile thing to do, but not something to do all in one shot, rather to do it over time and hope that someone investigating this will use a search engine to find all the bits.