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<a href="http://www.siliconvalleywatcher.com/mt/archives/2006/06/my_twoyear_anni.php">Tom Foremski</a>: "It was two years ago today that I left the comfort of the Financial Times San Francisco bureau, the six-figure salary/benefits package, the six-weeks of vacation, and the generous sabbaticals every four years, to become a journalist blogger."

Fri, 02 Jun 2006 00:15:03 GMT

<a href="http://www.lifehacker.com/software/google-calendar/add-weather-to-gcal-177700.php">Lifehacker is looking</a> for weather feeds. I use <a href="http://www.rssweather.com/">RSS Weather</a>, for example, here's the <a href="http://www.rssweather.com/zipcode/02138/rss.php">feed</a> for Cambridge, MA. Unfortunately they (confusingly) obscure the RSS, they didn't used to. Arrrgh.

Thu, 01 Jun 2006 19:40:15 GMT

<a href="http://weather.yahoo.com/forecast/USMA0066.html">Yahoo has weather</a> <a href="http://xml.weather.yahoo.com/forecastrss?p=USMA0066&u=f">feeds</a>, without the annoying (and confusing) obscuring.

Fri, 02 Jun 2006 00:16:18 GMT

<a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/scriptingnews/158341592/">Technorati</a>: "Leave a quarter in the collection tray on your way out."

Fri, 02 Jun 2006 00:35:29 GMT

The Atlantic hurricane season begins. The National Hurricane Center <a href="http://www.nhc.noaa.gov/text/refresh/MIATWOAT+shtml/010919.shtml">publishes</a> its outlook. They have an <a href="http://www.nhc.noaa.gov/index-at.xml">RSS 2.0 feed</a>.

Thu, 01 Jun 2006 14:06:33 GMT

The revolution will not be monetized

Thu, 01 Jun 2006 19:57:28 GMT

For the last week or so the tech blogosphere has been obsessing about a trademark, and missing an opportunity to refocus. The purpose of the two-way-web is not to make money for conference promoters, esp conferences that are structured around the old model -- "they speak, we listen."

The VCs only listen to other VCs, and would turn us into users who generate content that they wish to monetize. Not too exciting for you and me.

Tim Bray started a new thread which he calls Credit 2.0, which is worth continuing.

I'd like to add an excerpt from an essay I wrote roughly seven years ago, called Edit This Page. "Writing for the web is too damned hard. It turns you into a bookkeeper. I've got files all over my hard disk and their counterparts on the server. I can't keep track of them! When I'm reading a web page that I wrote, if I spot a mistake, I have to execute 23 complicated error-prone steps to make the change."

As a software developer, that was the challenge, that we rose to, and solved, and the result is a vibrant medium for expressing ideas and information. Let them argue about who owns the trademarks and how the advertisers from the last century can hold on for a few more years. The future we're living in isn't just like the past.

Tonight: <a href="http://greasepig.com/henrys/index.html">Henry's Hunan</a>, <a href="http://tinyurl.com/n7l7k">110 Natoma St</a>, 6:30PM.

Wed, 31 May 2006 22:35:39 GMT

I admit I'm corny but I can't get this <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PlJNV0TkxIg&eurl=http%3A%2F%2Fwww%2Evalleywag%2Ecom%2F">song</a> out of my head.

Wed, 31 May 2006 23:26:30 GMT

<a href="http://blogs.opml.org/MHMissives/2006/05/23">Fran</a>: "I talked to over one hundred occupational therapists, and only 3 had ever heard of podcasting."

Wed, 31 May 2006 21:00:07 GMT

<img src="http://images.scripting.com/archiveScriptingCom/2006/05/31/pepsiblue.gif" width="45" height="114" border="0" align="right" hspace="15" vspace="5" alt="A picture named pepsiblue.gif"><a href="http://www.edge.org/documents/archive/edge183.html">Jaron Lanier</a>: "The problem is in the way the Wikipedia has come to be regarded and used; how it's been elevated to such importance so quickly. And that is part of the larger pattern of the appeal of a new online collectivism that is nothing less than a resurgence of the idea that the collective is all-wise, that it is desirable to have influence concentrated in a bottleneck that can channel the collective with the most verity and force. This is different from representative democracy, or meritocracy. This idea has had dreadful consequences when thrust upon us from the extreme Right or the extreme Left in various historical periods. The fact that it's now being re-introduced today by prominent technologists and futurists, people who in many cases I know and like, doesn't make it any less dangerous."

Wed, 31 May 2006 12:43:56 GMT

<a href="http://www.schwimmerlegal.com/2006/05/web_20_v_web_20.html">Martin Schwimmer</a>: "If you coin and promulgate a term, you can sell it as a buzzword or you can sell it as a brand, but under trademark law, it's virtually impossible to do both."

Wed, 31 May 2006 04:01:22 GMT

Lots of interesting comments <a href="http://radar.oreilly.com/archives/2006/05/web_20_service_mark_controvers.html#comments">following</a> Tim O'Reilly's post.

Wed, 31 May 2006 05:29:04 GMT

Just a demo

Wed, 31 May 2006 12:52:19 GMT

Imagine™ what™ the™ world™ would™ be™ like™ if™ everyone™ trademarked™ every™ word™ that™ was™ ever™ added™ to™ the™ language.™ It™ would™ get™ pretty™ tiresome™ really™ fast.™

Don't forget, <a href="http://upcoming.org/event/80332">dinner tomorrow night</a>, Henry's Hunan, SF.

Tue, 30 May 2006 17:48:48 GMT

<a href="http://www.prweek.com/us/news/open/free/blogs/561121">PR Week</a> on Share Your OPML.

Tue, 30 May 2006 21:02:34 GMT

<img src="http://images.scripting.com/archiveScriptingCom/2006/05/30/ducttape.jpg" width="85" height="114" border="0" align="right" hspace="15" vspace="5" alt="A picture named ducttape.jpg">I had my pre-BloggerCon talk this morning with <a href="http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/palfrey/">John Palfrey</a>, who will lead the pivotal <i>How To Make Money</i> session. I learned my lesson, last time we tried to steer the conversation in a direction away from where the room wanted to go. This time I will put duct tape over my mouth and let JP follow the room. My talk with Elisa Camahort changed my thinking about this session. Let's see where the room wants to go. Previous DLs on this topic were Doc Searls and Jeff Jarvis.

Tue, 30 May 2006 18:20:44 GMT

Also spoke with <a href="http://www.davosnewbies.com/2006/05/30/politics-at-bloggercon/">Lance Knobel</a> who is leading the discussion on Blogging and the 2008 Election. This is another of our perma-threads, the political discussion has been part of BC since the first one in October 2003 in Cambridge. Back then the idea of blogging in politics was in its infancy, today, in 2006 its commonplace; and who knows where it will be in 2008. That's what we'll cover in late June in SF.

Tue, 30 May 2006 19:01:14 GMT

Here's what's great about Berkeley in the summer. The weather is perfect, and there's no one here. The streets are empty because all the kids have gone home, yet the weather is the best in the entire United States. While its hot and steamy back east, the high today in Berkeley will be 71 with a very nice breeze coming in from the Bay. The main question is do I want to take my walk in the morning when I have to wear a jacket (temp in the mid-upper 50s) or in a t-shirt, in the afternoon when it's in the high 60s. Meanwhile in <a href="http://www.rssweather.com/hw3.php?place=saint%20augustine&state=fl&country=us">Florida</a> it's 82 degrees, climbing to a high near 90. Thunderstorms in the afternoon. Air conditioning weather. Yuck!

Tue, 30 May 2006 18:03:11 GMT

I had my pre-BloggerCon talk yesterday with <a href="http://chris.pirillo.com/">Chris Pirillo</a>. He's going to lead a discussion about the power of users.

Tue, 30 May 2006 05:02:51 GMT

<a href="http://www.intertwingly.net/blog/2006/05/27/Coincidence">Sam Ruby spotted</a> a problem with SYO, which we fixed. He also suggests that we <a href="http://www.scripting.com/2005/10/07.html#whatADay">disclose</a>, again, that Mike Arrington has, in the past, represented me as an attorney, which is true. I also appreciate the support received from <a href="http://www.25hoursaday.com/weblog/">Dare Obasanjo</a> and <a href="http://blog.memeorandum.com/">Gabe Rivera</a> in the thread on Ruby's site. <a name="oreillyAndQuotweb20quotTrademarkIssues"></a>

Tue, 30 May 2006 16:01:08 GMT