Is it THE Paolo or not?

Where's Paolo?

I sure hope nobody got mad at Doc.  How can yah get mad at Doc?

I wonder if Mikel showed up? I think Cory brought danah to the Camden Locks Market to a place called Cyberdog. 

I keep mising Euan on IM - like three times now.  Sorry Euan - I'll grab yah next time I see yah log on.

And where's Paolo  - anyway?

The garlic has landed. Rather spiffing evening care of Euan "Supernode" Semple who was hosting Doc Searls. We all met up at Garlic & Shots where I have to say I wimped out and didn't try the Garlic Beer, nevertheless a good time was had by all until the management stop serving us drinks and the Doc got a bit rowdy.



Holding him back were: Gary Turner, Suw Charman, Tom Dolan, Tom Coates, Julian Elvé, Cory Doctorow, Danah Boyd, James Cox, and some other cool folks I hope to meet properly at a future shindig.
[Curiouser and curiouser!]

Loic and Paolo

While in London. While in London also I met Loïc and Andrew. It was the first time we met: it has been a good meeting.

At the moment there's no business going on between SixApart Europe and Evectors, still we are all working in the blogosphere, we are talking to the same people, often trying to sell products and services to the same customers and we mostly believe in the same things. This is why it makes sense to meet, to exchange ideas, to try as hard as we can to find common grounds and to build something together.

This is an entirely new business, it's worth trying to establish some new rules.
[Paolo Valdemarin: Paolo's Weblog]

Here here.

I think Loic and Paolo should definitely do business together.

God Bless Paolo

One more time with gusto - my dear friend Paolo Valdemarin has repaired my blog.

I've been under attack for a week now - receiving hundreds of virus' a day. They figured out some way to take down my blog and I haven't been able ot blog for almost a week.

But I'm back. With a GUSTO!

So what happened in the past week?

ourmedia.org

Blog Business Summit - hanging out with Scoble and lots of others.

Almost got stuck in NYC in a snowstorm.

Kicking butt on a number of fronts. Seriously getting into Drupal. Thanks to Boris et al.

But for now - I'm back!

Paolo posts

Dual Paolo post.....

Passions. In the last few months I have been getting more and more interested in guitar playing. It all started with GarageBand: soon after installing the software I realized that I needed to play some instrument to have more fun.

I had already payed guitars in the past, but never studied seriously: as a kid spending all that time exercising is usually not a priority.

But apparently this time the passion is sticking. After buying my first electric guitar back in February (a low cost Yamaha ERG 121), last saturday I brought home the beauty you see here on the right (it's an Ibanez AFS75T, still considered a low cost instrument but a quite beautiful one imho).

I still have to study and practice a lot before being able to publish some music here, but I'm enjoing every little bit of the process. These things are incredibly sexy, the addiction and lust that I knew from electronic gadgets is nothing compared to this.


[Paolo Valdemarin: Paolo's Weblog]

European blogger dinners season is open.

On May 12th I'm going to be in London to attend to Loïc UK blogger dinner.

Unfortunately there's no way to get to Amesterdam from here at a low cost (it doesn't necessarily have to cost 0.01 EUR... I could also spend 10! ;-), so I won't be able to go to Scriptin g.com dinner.

But with Dave riding around Europe by train there might be other chances...

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I can just see Paolo at those late night musician jam sessions, hunched over his ax -feeling the groove, tight in the pocket.

And I can just picture Paolo getting on his Ryan Air plane - for 1 Euro - cruising up to bloodey England for a bloodey blogger dinner.

But one thing I CAN'T picture - is Paolo at some Amsterdam Hash bar.

:-)

Happy Birthday to Paolo

Got up early so I could say Happy Birthday toPaolo.

Again. It's my birthday. Again. 33. Whew... This means that it's also the birthday of a lot of other people I know (our parents must have been happy and relaxed on those hot August nights ;-). Happy birthday to us all. [Paolo Valdemarin: Paolo's Weblog]

Hey Paolo - go check out Howward

Howard Rheingold's Slovenia visit next week has a Web site. The talk will be streamed, and the site will support queries for Howard.

(thanks to vuk!)

[Smart Mobs]

Hmmm - I wonder if Paolo will make it.  Lubijana is only :45 from Gorizia - maybe an hour from Graidsca.  Paolo could definitely make it.

I bet he'd really like it.

Paolo Uccello and the Cheese

Congrats to Paolo and Monica

We moved!. About two years ago we learned that we were supposed to leave the apartment we were living in. Back then we decided to find some land and build our home.

They started building it last year, in March.

After endless struggling with real estate agents, banks, builders, plumbers, electricians, painters, carpenters and a whole list of other people, last week-end we finally moved to our new home, during the two most rainy, windy and muddy days in San Martino del Carso history.

Waking up yesterday morning with a bright sun (sigh) shining on our bedroom window has been beautiful.

For the first time in years we are taking stuff out of cardboard boxes instead of putting it in. This also means that now I will have again time and mind to fully concentrate on daily work and writing on my weblog.

[Paolo Valdemarin: Paolo's Weblog]

I can't wait to go and try out the guest room. Only problem is (I mean challenge) is that I have an entourage of 4 now....

Paolo on Frontier being open sourced

Yesterday Dave Winer announced that at some point in the next few months there will be an open source release of the Frontier kernel.

It's a quite interesting news since I, just like Marc, would not be here today if it wasn't for Frontier and, of course, Dave.

When in '99 we decided that our company best development path would have been providing to our customers tools to maintain their web pages by themselves, Frontier had been a very natural choice. We developed a full CMS with Frontier, one which is still silently humming behind the scenes of hundreds of web sites, from some very small ecommerce ones to some very large corporate portals.

Also our new knowledge management product, K-collector, is currently a Frontier-based application.

Since first I heard about Dave's intention to release the Frontier kernel I have been wondering about how we could contribute to this effort. After all, having received so much, I feel we should give something back.

I don't know if we'll have time and resources to contribute to the kernel (we'd surely like to squash a few bugs which have been hunting us for all these years for the sheer pleasure of doing it). What we have is a mountain of Frontier code. From xsl-based template rendering to full blown e-commerce applications, from customer profiling to easy content editing, from directory-structured web sites to sql database integration...

Maybe we could release some parts of IdeaTools, or we could partner with UserLand to better take advantage of a stronger and more open architecture. Nobody can say what will happen, hopefully it will be fun.

Paolo is wondering why Apple went from
orange to blue?

I assume that Paolo (by now) realizes that Apple will take standards and change them - just to be different.

It has happened with cables and connectors, browsers and now XML icons. I wonder what is next?

But we all love Apple - right? They're doing our R&D for us!

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Here is Paolo's post.....

Among the other news from yesterday's Apple Developers Conference keynote, it's interesting to note that apple picked the blue RSS icon and not the orange XML one to represent RSS (and Atom).

Even if I'm a long time orange icon user and fan, I think I can imagine Apple thinking: "why using an icon with the word 'XML' to link to something we call 'RSS'?". It's true: users are smart, but why making their life harder?

For some time XML icons were popping up everywhere. They linked RSS feeds but also other kind of XML files such as OPML blogrolls (oops, I have just realized that I still have such an icon here) and I do agree that it might have been confusing for users not living in our loop.

It's not that by choosing the blue icon Apple has closed all games but they definetly made a significant step in one direction. Soon we will see if users will start switching to the blue icon. Meanwhile I guess I'll adopt both for my site.

Also, from the demo's I've seen, Safari should solve another issue: users clicking on an RSS icon will not end up watching a page of code anymore but should see a nicely displayed set of posts. Cool.

[Paolo Valdemarin]

Is it THE Paolo or not?

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