Monkinetic Weblog

OH: there are roughly three main characters in the book: Bilbo, Gandalf and The Dwarves (a hive mind of treasure hungry midgets #thehobbit

40 year olds (who did not ride as kids) should not ride skateboards #protip #themoreyouknow

Item on a family friend's Christmas todo list: "blow up the gingerbread house #crowningmomentofawesome #betterwithexplosives /cc @seanmctex

got a display replacement at genius bar last night for my crud-infested iPhone screen. Now the ear-level speaker doesn't work #heygenius

The action is over here. Next step is to start in on the thornier issue: how to start building the whitelist.

|Dave Winer| said he was going to have an exclusive after the SteveNote.

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Peggy Noonan - The Blogs Must Be Crazy. She makes a ton of good points, for example:

>In newspapers you have to go to the editor, explain to him why the paper should have another piece on the Eason Jordan affair, spend a day reporting it, only to find that all that's new today is that reporter Michelle Malkin got an interview with Barney Frank. That's not enough to merit 10 inches of newspaper space, so the Times doesn't carry what the blogosphere had 24 hours ago. In the old days a lot of interesting information fell off the editing desk in this way. Now it doesn't.

This is an inspiring article. Thanks Seth! (Oh, and Dave too.)

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Peggy Noonan - The Blogs Must Be Crazy. She makes a ton of good points, for example:

>In newspapers you have to go to the editor, explain to him why the paper should have another piece on the Eason Jordan affair, spend a day reporting it, only to find that all that's new today is that reporter Michelle Malkin got an interview with Barney Frank. That's not enough to merit 10 inches of newspaper space, so the Times doesn't carry what the blogosphere had 24 hours ago. In the old days a lot of interesting information fell off the editing desk in this way. Now it doesn't.

This is an inspiring article. Thanks Seth! (Oh, and Dave too.)

Hm. Dave is re-inventing RSS's <enclosure> element, this time as the technology-specific <torrent> element. We already have Bittorrent-as-enclosure working just fine, thank you.

Dave links to a Dowbrigade story about a journalism student killed by police riot-control activity last night in Boston. The line Dave quotes from the story:

Dave writes about what I've always thought was a good idea but have a serious reason to care about now: we want to be able to subscribe to audio content feeds via something like RSS and get it downloaded directly to our iPods. I'd love to be able to have |NetNewsWire| automatically add any .mp3 enclosures to a special playlist in iTunes.

Via Scripting News: > Ananova: "A German couple who went to a fertility clinic after eight years of marriage have found out why they are still childless -- they weren't having sex."

Since this will be gone soon I'm sure.

Dave says: quoteYesterday I asked for a feature in Manila, and today it's being tested with the most technical Manila users (also known as developers).endquote

Dave is doing a keynote at the Open Source Content Management conference (OSCOM) in Cambridge.

Cool! Dave was kind enough to link to the Colin Powell speech transcript.

Doc Searls re Eldred:

We don't turn around a pervasive mentality, anchored in conceptual metaphors older than most oaks, in one court calendar, one congressional term, or perhaps even one decade.

Mark Pilgrim is doing something cool with his weblog posts: by searching the posts for HTML CITE tags, he now has a view of his posts sorted by who he was citing. Very useful. I don't think he needed the more-semantic-than-thou snarkiness to make his point though.

Dave is wondering at the snow in NYC. Here in Phoenix it was 60&degree. :-) No snow here.

According to Dave, the Register is reporting thatMicrosoft may want to buy Macromedia, makers of Flash, Freehand, Dreamweaver, and other graphics and web applications. Evidently they want Flash MX, so it can become YAJK (Yet Another Java Killer) on the web.