http://www.scripting.com/ It's even worse than it appears. en-us Copyright 1997-2006 Dave Winer Sat, 02 Sep 2006 07:00:00 GMT Sun, 03 Sep 2006 03:00:52 GMT http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss OPML Editor version 0.71 dave@scripting.com dave@scripting.com <a href="http://images.scripting.com/archiveScriptingCom/2006/09/02/gandhAt10DowningSt.jpg">Gandhi</a>: "Where there is injustice, I always believed in fighting. The question is, do you fight to change things or do you fight to punish?" Sat, 02 Sep 2006 14:32:13 GMT http://www.scripting.com/2006/09/02.html#When:7:32:13AM <a href="http://images.scripting.com/archiveScriptingCom/2006/09/02/gandhAt10DowningSt.jpg"><img src="http://images.scripting.com/archiveScriptingCom/2006/09/02/gandhi.jpg" width="75" height="93" border="0" align="right" hspace="15" vspace="5" alt="A picture named gandhi.jpg"></a>When you fight to punish nothing is going to change, if anything the positions will harden, making change <i>less</i> likely. Gandhi also said you must become the change you seek. Indeed. That's the pied piper thing. Doing what you ask others to do might be harder than you think, you can't find out until you do it yourself. Then your experience can guide others. Want more women speakers at tech conferences? Okay, have a tech conference, and make that one of your goals, perhaps your primary goal. <i>You</i> have to do it. There are no shortcuts. Sat, 02 Sep 2006 15:31:32 GMT http://www.scripting.com/2006/09/02.html#When:8:31:32AM <a href="http://www.pbs.org/cringely/pulpit/pulpit20060901.html">Cringely</a>: "Sometime in the next 30 days this column will morph overnight into a blog." Sat, 02 Sep 2006 16:22:48 GMT http://www.scripting.com/2006/09/02.html#When:9:22:48AM <img src="http://images.scripting.com/archiveScriptingCom/2006/09/02/ohYeahhhhSmall.gif" width="85" height="91" border="0" align="right" hspace="15" vspace="5" alt="A picture named ohYeahhhhSmall.gif">I've <a href="http://doc.weblogs.com/2006/09/01#thereVsEverywhere">heard</a> the <a href="http://thenewnewinternet.com/">New New Internet</a> described as a <a href="http://www.rageboy.com/2006/09/you-snooze-you-win.html">fantastic</a> Web 2.0 parody site, and it is that, but it also is (apparently) <i>a real conference,</i> whose purpose appears to be meta-meta. In other words, it purports to teach you to have meta-excitement, or excitement <a href="http://www.scripting.com/2006/09/01.html#When:7:18:49AM">about</a> people getting excited. I guess that's only if the people putting it on are actually excited themselves, but with headlines like: "An All-Star Cast of Web 2.0 Players Will Descend on Tyson's Corner," how could you doubt that they were genuinely faking excitement? Sat, 02 Sep 2006 10:24:56 GMT http://www.scripting.com/2006/09/02.html#When:3:24:56AM