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Marc Canter looks for an Atkins-friendly option (he and Chris Pirillo talked about starting a group blog for low-carb people).
Scoble makes a phone call
The Big Table
OK, I recognize Chris, Gretchen, and Dave. I'm drawing a blank on the other names...
A view of both tables... more names to fill in
Multiconversation multitasking
Dave wanted us to sing a song. I suggested 'Freebird'. That went over like a lead balloon. We never sang anything.
Out in the hoegarden behind Coyote, it looks like Chris must have said something amusing or bemusing
Sadly, this is the best shot I got of the meeting of the minds (Dave and Ev). I knew it wasn't great but that flash was plain annoying. Pirillo got a much sweeter shot, visible from his blog.
Gnome-girl (Cheyenne) and Tantek (thanks for the ID, Gretchen), and Lori (right?), looking hip
The same folks, looking cool
Amy and her new friend, Lynn, whom we assimilated
I avenge the other attendees with this horrible self-portrait
The party gets another center of gravity when Raines arrives (that's Tara Sue in the back up there)
Someone said something that made Ev laugh.
More happy smiles from Dave, Scoble, and Simon Fell
categories: metablog
6:26:24 PM 
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One day I'll need to come up with a big list of sites that track memes, especially those that do so automatically or semiautomatically (as opposed to sites like Metafilter and half the weblogs in the universe that track memes all the time by virtue of their infectious passing of memes from one to another).
The latest is the coolly named (yet awkwardly spelled) Memeufacture.
The set of categories included is somewhat strange, but I assume it will grow. Right now your choices are Influential, Politics (Right), Politics (Left), Apple, and Law.
categories: memewatch x-syndicate
6:18:30 PM say what []
I always wondered how to pronounce Tufte.
(Thanks to plasticbag.org for the pointer.)
categories: x-syndicate
6:17:45 PM say what []
Doc has the skinny on the upcoming PBS Mediamatters show on weblogging:
PBS says it will run a feature on blogging in mediamatters on Thursday. Glenn sez he can't get it in Knoxville. Hmm... I'll betcha he could find something if he has an outdoor antenna (and doesn't depend only on cable). I see no less than four PBS signals around Knoxville: WKOP/15&17 and WJSK/2&41. But... it's not on any of them (which all appear to be one station anyway). Well... he might get WUNF/33 from Asheville, which radiates from Mt. Pisgah and has line-of-sight into parts of Knoxville. But... looks like UNC-TV doesn't carry it, either.
Let's see... It should be on the PBS feed that comes with many folks' DishTV and DirecTV lineups. But... Here's PBS's Thursday/Jan 16 lineup, and the program isn't there.
Is this program being carried at all, anywhere?
Well, the video clip works, and it features Glenn, Oliver, Anil and Megan. The text says Blogging: Is it Punditry? Is it journalism? Is it important?
Maybe they spent too much time around Oliver's kryptonite.
[Later...] Gerry Humphrey give us the rundown on various times the show should be airing in different places, including Knoxville, and how to easily find the info.
This was to be a test of posting to a Radio blog via NetNewsWire Pro (beta), but I get a 404 error every time I try to do it. I suspect the problem has something to do with the XML/RPC setup, but I have no idea what it is. Does it matter that I'm at my own domain and not on a Radio community server?
As for the beta, the only weirdness I noticed was that the paragraph tags that should have wrapped the credit line at the end instead opened and closed before it.
categories: metablog radioactive
5:42:25 PM say what []
categories: memewatch x-syndicate
5:17:10 PM say what []
One of the "latest things" that Chris Pirillo was excited about the other night was Dan Bricklin's SMBmeta Initiative. According to Ross Mayfield
This metadata scheme allows small and medium size businesses to express their identity in XML.Ross summarizes David Weinberger on some of the strengths of this approach:
- Dan doesn't want to own the data
- It's free for anyone to aggregate
- Its extensible
I think I need a new category to cover this kind of thing. It really has nothing to do with blogs.
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4:46:51 PM say what []
Elizabeth Spiers does some original reporting for the Gawker, getting to the bottom of how the cocaine business really should be run. Maybe what these dealers need is a good CRM implementation.
The article, long for the Gawker, runs in the form of a taped interview with a ditzy-but-funny Wall Streeter:
Of Wall Street's obsession with cocaine, she says, "I think it's pretty prevalent. Because it's a soulless...it's a pretty empty profession. You're helping really rich people get richer, and you're getting rich doing it, but you're not getting that rich, so you're a little bit jealous of them. You're not doing anything good for the world at all. It's just a waste of your time, except for the money. It's just really empty. Nobody really cares as long as you're getting your work done, and it helps in that respect, because it keeps you from thinking about quality of life things—what's true or important in the world, you don't worry about."
categories: memewatch
4:07:47 PM say what []
Reading Cringely's prediction that "with the continued (and to me totally inexplicable) rise of web logs, someone — maybe Google &8212; will come up with an effective blog search engine to read all that junk for us and extract what we really care about," Kevin Marks explains it all very succinctly:
You don't need to read them all, you just need to find a few you like and read those — the searching is done by individual selection. And Google does index them very well — the individually made links in weblogs are a key part of what Google consolidates into a consensus about what is worth reading. If the weblogs say something interesting on a topic, Google will find it.By the way, is spelling weblog as two words a marker for "not getting it"?
categories: metablog
2:01:49 PM say what []
It also gives a 404 error when it tries to post, which makes me think that it's guess for the RPC address to hit is the source of the problem. Has anyone set up a remote client like this before who can fill me in on the details needed?
NNW Pro guessed http://radiofreeblogistan.com/RPC2 for the RPC URL and "home" for the Blog ID, both of which smell fishy to me. Any suggestions?
categories: metablog radioactive
1:56:50 PM say what []
Well, it looks like RFB will be dropping down to number seven in the Salon blogs all-time rankings today as both of filchyboy's blogs have been racking up (nearly identical) hit counts in the thousands since yesterday. Has he put the web bug back on his ultra-popular safersex.org pages? I noticed his top refer is the Yahoo! search for "sex" but when I visit that results page I only see a link to safersex.org, and nothing going directly to either of the filchyboy blogs. All's fair in love and sex, I suppose.
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