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| Wednesday, August 1, 2007 |
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Carrying on 
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| Tuesday, July 31, 2007 |
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Looking for numbers
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| Monday, July 30, 2007 |
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Quote du jour
| | There may be something of a ³race to the bottom.² National patent systems may have incentives to offer the most favorable treatment to inventors, at the expense of patent quality. |
| | Here's the first of a number of pieces I wrote about patents back around the turn of the Millennium. |
A forism
Beyond the leading fire edge
| | It's dawn in Boston, where a thunderstom rumbles outside the hotel. Back home in Santa Barbara, precautions are being taken to assure that the Zaca Fire does not advance all the way to town. Specifically, |
| | Due to the presence of heavy equipment working in the area, East Camino Cielo Road between Painted Cave Road and Gibraltar Road is closed to general public traffic. Bulldozers are enhancing an existing fuelbreak that parallels East Camino Cielo. This work is being done as a longterm contingency should the Zaca Fire advance in that direction. The Zaca Fire is several miles away and does not pose an immediate threat to the area. Similary contingency lines are being placed as a precautionary measure at strategic locations around Los Padres National Forest. |
| | Guests in our house report ash-fall on pretty much everything. |
| | Meanwhile, here in Boston, thanks no doubt to the thunderstorm nicely depicted above, FlightStats reports this about Logan (BOS): |
| | Ground Stop - This airport has issued a Ground Stop affecting flights departing to it between Jul 30 10:47 AM UTC and Jul 30 12:00 PM UTC due to . (sic) Flights are being delayed an average of 38.7 minutes. |
| | Logan is currently the only airport in the U.S. reporting delays. |
| | Here are pictures of Logan and Winthrop, just after the last big storm there, on Saturday. |
Happy 60th
| | to the Governator. Whom, I believe, at least partly owes his office to the use of hair enhancement chemicals. |
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| Sunday, July 29, 2007 |
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Good planet. Like it here. Think I'll stay.
| | Arrived on Earth 60 years ago today. Been looking around. |
| | At the moment we're on the front steps of an apartment we might rent in Arlington, MA. Digging my Christmas song from Dave and the kind words from he and Dr. Weinberger (along with many other friends and familials I don't have time right now to thank... you know who you are). Makes my decade. |
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| Saturday, July 28, 2007 |
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Late delivery
| | At SDP2007 this past week, Ben Peters talked about close reading of text (and also about too much reading, another worthy subject). This comes to mind as I read Jos Schuurmans' The Cluetrain Manifesto on the rebirth of conversations, wherein he excerpts a long series of quotes that remind me of three things: 1) I haven't read the book in years; 2) There's a lot of good stuff in there; and 3) The future, as William Gibson said, is not evenly distributed. |
| | It's funny, when we posted Cluetrain in the first place, we asked people to 'sign' it by posting remarks. That page swelled to a size so large that opening it over a dial-up connection could take up to several minutes. Since I was working at dial-up speed or worse in those days (remember Ricochet? that's what I used), I hardly ever looked at it back then, and not at all since. |
| | Now, of course, the page loads quickly. Looking through the long pile of comments, most strike me as overly optimistic... and now, anachronistic. More to the persistent point is what Dom DeBellis says here: |
| | "If I hear one more company talking about 'responsive customer service' or 'solutions built around you' or some other marketing happy hogwash, I'm going to have to hit something--hard. Cluetrain is articulating much of what we (normal people) have been saying for years: listen to us. We're you're customers. What you call your 'target market.' Don't talk down to us. We know our needs. You don't. Try to spend less time talking and more time listening to us . . . Um, are you listening?" |
| | In too many cases the answer is still "Not yet". |
Extra broken
| | Back when I lived in the Bay Area and flew mostly out of SFO, I kept a running tally of how many moving sidewalks were down at any given time. It tended to run at about one in five. |
| | When I flew out of SFO on Wednesday, we had a two-fer on the long United Concourse, out among the gates in the upper 80s. Both sidewalks were broken. |
| | When I looked at the sign, however, the story was even worse than it appeared. So I shot it. As for why these things keep breaking and not getting fixed, I can only guess. I almost don't want to know. |
Asymptotic living
| | First, get HalfaLife.org. (Or .com if you want to pay the squatter.) |
| | On Day Two, take away half the geography. |
| | On Day Four, take away another half. |
| | On Day Eight, another half. |
| | Keep going until all you're left with is a rug or something. |
Further proof of life after birth
| | So this is my last day at age 59. |
| | And, as you can see, we are the same. Proof that astrology is correct. |
| | Speaking of which, the first words my future wife heard me say were "I'm a Leo, so I don't believe in astrology". She thought I was funny, which helped her overlook my shortcomings. (Such as, being shorter.) Laughter may not be the best medicine, but it's pretty good prosthesis. |
| | I'll let you know in a day or so. |
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| Friday, July 27, 2007 |
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Not your friend, but a remarkably unable simulation
| | Micah Sifry on his new facefriend, Howard Dean: ...who really believes that a friend request from a politician is actually coming from that person, for real, as opposed to a staffer who is working their profile for them? |
| | Also, So, now Howard Dean has "poked" me. I've poked him back. Is this communication? |
| | The follow: Well, it wasn't really from Dean. What I did get was an email from the person who is paid to "be" Howard Dean on Facebook, or rather, one of the staffers behind his profile... |
| | And, ...same as it ever was... |
Getting schooled
| | Thanks (or blame) to schedule conflicts, I've only been able to catch the last two days of the program, which is a bummer. So if you notice light blogging, there's a good reason. I'm soaking in all I can. |
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| Wednesday, July 25, 2007 |
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Equipment list
| | Nice post by Stephen Lewis on the VRM meeting we co-attended last week in Oxford, plus (as usual), much more. My own metaphor for Vendor Relations Management is that it would give individuals the cyberspace equivalents of an immense megaphone and a hefty cudgel. |
I was overheard to have said...
| | It's nice to be reminded of what I say when I give a talk. Here's trick on his "favorite bits" from Guadec last week: |
| | Doc Searls' closing keynote. Doc is a funny man. "Now bend over and give me some content!" |
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