Monkinetic Weblog

In their typical in-your-face way, Doc Searls and David Weinberger take some time to explain the internet to the business crowd.

Thomas P.M. Barnett writes for the Navy War College on the new understanding of the world from the Pentagon's viewpoint. It explains a lot of where our government sees the world going, and what our place in it will be.

Since the end of the cold war, the United States has been trying to come up with an operating theory of the world and a military strategy to accompany it.  Now there's a leading contender.  It involves identifying the problem parts of the world and aggressively shrinking them. Agree or disagree, this is one to read.

BTW - I worked on the corporate weblog piece for quite a while, tweaking it, taking out sections wholesale and gutting others to make it read better. Jim Roepcke and Robert Scoble were my guides, and I'm super grateful for their thoughts and time.

[via Jim] Napsterize Your Knowledge: Give To Receive: MarketingProfs.com article on the new dynamics of coporate marketing and information. Tangentially related to the points I make in Corporate Product Support: The Weblog Generation.

I've been thinking a lot lately about the role of weblogs in product development, promotion, and support, especially as an addition to the traditional role of mailing lists in developing user communities.

Damien is stuck in PHX airport (we were supposed to get together but events prevented it) and he's blogging it over Bluetooth and his cellphone. Hehe. Cooool.

Jon Udell: The Future Of Online Community.

Dave is talking about preparing to move across country. In October of 2001, I was doing the same thing. There's something exciting, scary, and altogether bigger than oneself about moving to a new life. All the best, Dave!

Oh my, I was laughing my... patukas.. off reading this:

List Community(#listCommunity)

non-mp3-label-approved tags: "" tp_commentcount: "0" tp_favoritecount: "0" tp_urlid: 6a010534988cd3970b0120a5b3600c970c

It looks like Apple may be announcing shortly a new music service for Mac/iPod owners, using label-approved music and non-mp3 format. Argh.

Apple had so much going for it - the whole digital hub thing, iTunes, iPod. Do they know it was MP3 support that made iTunes so frikkin popular? I wonder if they will continue to support MP3? I guess we'll see what happens.

More links: San Jose Mercury, Mac Observer, Slashdot.

[via Chris]

non-mp3-label-approved

It looks like Apple may be announcing shortly a new music service for Mac/iPod owners, using label-approved music and non-mp3 format. Argh.

Apple had so much going for it - the whole digital hub thing, iTunes, iPod. Do they know it was MP3 support that made iTunes so frikkin popular? I wonder if they will continue to support MP3? I guess we'll see what happens.

More links: San Jose Mercury, Mac Observer, Slashdot.

[via Chris]

It looks like Apple may be announcing shortly a new music service for Mac/iPod owners, using label-approved music and non-mp3 format. Argh.

Ok, I'm on my second cup already because I got distracted. After noticing Scoble's link to Joel on Software, I decided to read Joel's most recent email article, on Building Communities with Software. It got me thinking about how the forum on this site works. I may make some changes around here but I'm not sure yet.

Ooohhh.... must not look.

Well, there's not much to say.

Not sure exactly what Jupiter's weblog tradeshow is meant to be or do, but I bet Scoble will have some ideas.

If you're in the tech business, writing software, building hardware, or making an OS, you need to be reading Robert Scoble.

I just noticed that O'Reilly has a Policy DevCenter to go along with their other developer-oriented sites. I wonder if we'll start to see books like "The Constitution in a Nutshell", "Practical CopyLeft", "Congressional Framework Essentials" showing up on the booklist?

Inspired to go looking after Dave linked to the perl.org RSS feeds of their job listings, I just found that jobmart.com has feeds of each of their job databases:

• Mac OS X: http://macosx.jobmart.com/Resumes/JobOpennings/RssFeed
• Linux: http://linux.jobmart.com/Resumes/JobOpennings/RssFeed
• Python, Plone, Zope: http://python.jobmart.com/Resumes/JobOpennings/RssFeed
• Wireless: http://wireless.jobmart.com/Resumes/JobOpennings/RssFeed