Wednesday, April 28, 2004

How I got online from Zurich and other tales. 

What a small world. Gregor Rothfuss is in Zurich, ten minutes away from the Internet cafe I'm in. He's coming over. Gregor is the OSCOM guy and was a semi-regular at Berkman Thursdays when he was living in the Boston area last year. Benjamin Voigt, a Microsoft blogger, who gave away copies of the Cluetrain inside Microsoft. He's trying to evangelize students. "Do you know Scoble?" He says he knows him.  

What do Howard Rheingold, Denise Caruso, Ray Kurzweil, Richard Rhodes, Mark Schapiro, Christina Desser, Craig Newmark, Susan Mernit, Markos Moulitsas Zuniga, Mark Pincus, Dan Gillmor, Vin Crosbie, Neil Chase, Ken Sands and Bob Magnuson have in common? 

The SF Giants have total WiFi coverage at their ballpark.  

Adam Curry, Ninja-Extraodinaire, continues his odyssey. 

Breaking through with Adam was a big deal. When I try to explain this stuff, no matter how many times I say RSS was designed so people who write weblogs and news articles could understand it, they think because I'm a developer that they can't understand it. Anyway, if Adam can understand it, so the story goes, anyone can. Of course Adam is one of the smartest people I know, but he's definitely not a developer.  

Apple guy to developer circa 1989: "There's only one of me and lots of yous." It's backwards. A person who works for a platform vendor should think about it the other way, if he or she is properly doing their job. Each developer is unique. Developer support people exist only to support developers, so cut the arrogance. You win when a developer ships a new product. Don't whine about it, get busy helping the developer make you successful.