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Links from Day 3 of ETech

Links from Day 3 of ETech 03/19/2005 02:33 AM
This is a dump of lnks of interest to me that come up during talks during the third day at Etech. Newest at top. An Intimate History of Humanity by Theodore Zeldin Matt Webb says this is one of his favorite books from 2004.

Links from Day 1 of Etech

Links from Day 1 of Etech 03/17/2005 03:25 AM
This is a dump of lnks of interest to me that come up during talks during the first day at Etech. Newest at top. Citizen journalism, one-handed department "There has been so much debate over whether bloggers are journalists, the real issue has been obscured: are IRC chatters journalists? Mr. Sun has done some careful investigation and found that the IRC conversation logged below preceded the supposed revolutionizing of journalism by bloggers." Totally unrelated to the conference, but a funny reminder that I don't read Mr. Sun enough. Ten Hour Takeover "Ten Hour Takeover is your chance to choose the music Radio 1 plays." The BBC asked listeners to send a text message song request. Ten hours of music totally driven by the listening public. Awesome. "Average UK adult listens to 24 hours of radio a week" according to Paul in the presentation, BBC Programme Information Pages: An Architecture for an On-Demand World. Wow. That's amazing. For comparison, I found this document about American teenage radio habits stating that US young adults agee 12-17 listen to an average of 13.5 hours of radio a week. Maybe it's because we've got more Clear Channel and they've got Radio 1? Cory's notes from George Dyson's talk Dyson's talk on "Von Neumann's Universe" was one of my favorites so far, and makes me want to take a field trip to Princeton to visit the Institute for Advanced Study. Near Near Future A blog from a woman who's, "currently working as a new media consultant for a multimedia and virtual reality park in Turin." I like the way she's got her categories displayed across the top of the page, using a larger font to display categories with more posts. pasta and vinegar "A blog by nicolas nova about pasta (human computer interaction, innovation, technologies, futuristic trends, location based services, mobile computing, user-centric stuff, video game design) and vinegar (digital culture and various weird stuff)." The real digital divide (The Economist) "Encouraging the spread of mobile phones is the most sensible and effective response to the digital divide" (The above link is not from the conference, I read this on the plane and it's very interesting, I recommend the whole Technology Quarterly in the March 12th-18th The Economist. A lot of what I read in it feels relevant to what I'm thinking about and hearing at ETech.) Google Sets "Automatically create sets of items from a few examples." Here's an example with peanut butter & jelly. Tech Buzz Game "The Tech Buzz Game is a fantasy prediction market for high-tech products, concepts, and trends." applied minds, inc. Danny Hillis is talking about walking dinosaur that's electrically driven and fully articulated and all kinds of amazing robots that I'll find links for and pictures of later, I want to listen now. Flickr Graph "Flickr Graph is an application that explores the social relationships inside flickr.com." Flickrfox "flickrfox is an extension for Firefox (version 1.0) that lets you browse your Flickr photostreams in a sidebar." Baby Name Wizard's NameVoyager Baby Name Wizard's NameVoyager looks really cool but doesn't seem to work in Firefox. It graphs the popularity of baby names over time.

Links from Day 2 of ETech

Links from Day 2 of ETech 03/17/2005 03:25 AM
This is a dump of lnks of interest to me that come up during talks during the second day at Etech. Newest at top. Late start because I was running in the AM. Ta-da Lists Really simple to-do list management. Cory Doctorow's notes Cory's notes from James Surowiecki's talk, "Independent Individuals and Wise Crowds, or Is It Possible to Be Too Connected?" The SchoolTool Project "SchoolTool is a project to develop a common global school administration infrastructure that is freely available under an Open Source licence." Instiki "Instiki is a Wiki Clone (What is a wiki?) that’s so easy to set up and so pretty to look at, you’ll be wondering whether this is a real wiki at all...Instiki only relies on Ruby—no Apache, no MySQL, or other dependencies(yay!). Instiki runs on Windows, Linux, OSX, and any other platform where Ruby does." Dodgeball "A service which aims to coordinate social interactions between mobile users" Pac-Manhattan "Pac-Manhattan is a large-scale urban game that utilizes the New York City grid to recreate the 1980's video game sensation Pac-Man. This analog version of Pac-man is being developed in NYU's Interactive Telecommunications graduate program, in order to explore what happens when games are removed from their 'little world' of tabletops, televisions and computers and placed in the larger 'real world' of street corners, and cities."

The middleman's dwindling value

The middleman's dwindling value 11/14/2003 07:27 PM
EBay increasingly faces challenges from the search engine companies, (Google in particular as well as Yahoo ( YHOO: news, chart, profile ) which earn their ...

The Middleman's Dwindling Value

The Middleman's Dwindling Value 11/11/2003 03:26 AM
The value of the online middleman is declining rapidly as the Internet evolves into a place where our needs and wants are perfectly understood, and geography matters less and less. By Bambi Francisco (CBS MarketWatch via MyAppleMenu)

DeLay's dwindling defenses

DeLay's dwindling defenses 04/08/2005 08:51 PM
With DeLay on the ropes the media is pulling no punches -- while former supporters appear to be pulling funds.

New Wares, Audience Dwindling At
Macworld

New Wares, Audience Dwindling At
Macworld 01/17/2004 10:39 PM
By Glenn Fleishman (Seattle Times via MyAppleMenu)

Mickey Mouse's dwindling brand

Mickey Mouse's dwindling brand 04/17/2004 10:13 AM
Great NYT feature on the dwindling importance of Mickey Mouse as a character, and the attempts of the Dinsey organization to reimagine Mickey as a relevant character today.

"I was around 6 when I first saw him," [Maurice Sendak] said. "It filled me with joy. I think it was those primary colors so vivid and pure, taken up with the most incredibly beautiful animation, reminding you of Fred Astaire. Oh! And his character was the kind I wished I'd had as a child: brave and sassy and nasty and crooked and thinking of ways to outdo people." The joy leached from Mr. Sendak's voice. "Not like the lifeless fat pig he is now."

Mr. Sendak is hardly alone in mourning the mouse's decline. "Boring," "embalmed," "neglected," "irrelevant," "deracinated" and, perhaps most damning, "over" are some of the adjectives that cropped up in recent interviews with people in the cartoon, movie and marketing businesses.

Link (Thanks, Warren!)

War Funds Dwindling, GAO Warns
(washingtonpost.com)

War Funds Dwindling, GAO Warns
(washingtonpost.com) 07/21/2004 11:12 PM
washingtonpost.com - The U.S. military has spent most of the $65 billion that Congress approved for fighting the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan and is scrambling to find $12.3 billion more from within the Defense Department to finance the wars through the end of the fiscal year, federal investigators said yesterday.

Call of the Dwindling Wild Returns Zoo
Bongos to Home

Call of the Dwindling Wild Returns Zoo
Bongos to Home 02/10/2004 02:45 AM
Conservationists have opted to repatriate some American bongos and hope that their offspring revert to their wild ways.

Microsoft, Amid Dwindling Interest,
Talks Up Computing as a Career

Microsoft, Amid Dwindling Interest,
Talks Up Computing as a Career 03/06/2004 01:53 AM
Bill Gates went on a campaign tour last week to convince wary students to pursue computer science.

Campaigns Boiling Down to a Dwindling
Swing Vote (Los Angeles Times)

Campaigns Boiling Down to a Dwindling
Swing Vote (Los Angeles Times) 05/29/2004 04:52 AM
Los Angeles Times - CLAYTON, Mo. — Marshall Burstein, man of action, is stuck.

Just a Bunch of Links, but They’re
Good Links, I Swear

Just a Bunch of Links, but They’re
Good Links, I Swear 05/01/2004 11:03 PM

Links to interviews with Rich Siegel and John Calhoun, BBEdit 7.1.4 release notes, and an excellent story from Andy Hertzfeld on the development of Switcher.

ETech come-down...

ETech come-down... 02/13/2004 08:03 PM

Right then. Emerging Tech is over and everyone's heads are full and we've all got a little bit of a hangover from last night celebrations and socialising. I'm now back in Los Angeles, having taken the train up from San Diego with the lovely Phil and Anno. The train journey was filled with little aggravating child noises and I was sitting in the wrong direction so arrive in LA feeling queasy and dizzy. The train goes so close to the Ocean that it's almost impossible not to want to sacrifice all future working ambitions, get out at any convenient station and run giggling into the water with warm sand between your toes. Manfully, I have resisted.

I fly back to the UK on Sunday evening - arriving back sometime around early lunchtime on Monday. I think I'm going to have to make an appeal for a long weekend off work to try and digest everything that's been going on and make sense of it. I think my understanding of the event is even more blurry this year than last. In the meantime posting is likely to be more erratic than usual...

CC at O'Reilly Etech

CC at O'Reilly Etech 02/10/2004 02:41 AM

Creative Commons will be an exhi bitor at the O'Reilly Emerging Technology Conference in San Diego next week.

Etech is regarded by many as the best tech conference of the year, always in step with the latest creations and aspirations of the alpha geeks, having evolved from the Peer-to-Peer Conference in early 2001 and P2P & Web Services in late 2001 to the current multi-tracked annual conference starting two years ago. (Incidentally, the Creative Commons concept was in troduced at ETCon 2002. How time flies.)

Matt Haughey and Mike Linksvayer will be attending. Stop by the Creative Commons booth, or better yet our parti cipant session (time and location yet to be announced). We'll be introducing a new CC metadata-enhanced application. Hint: it's described in one of our tech challenges, heretofore unmet.

If you're in the area but not an attendee, you can still reg ister for a free exhibits pass, or an exhibits plus keynotes and birds-of-a-feather (participant sessions) pass for only $50. Hope to see you there!

ETech day 1 starts

ETech day 1 starts 02/10/2004 02:51 AM

Arrived at ETech. Lots of people and not enough time to blog. The Internet in my room isn't working, but hopefully, they'll fix it today. Today is the Digital Democracy Teach-In. Should be fun. I'll try to post notes.

A few one liners I scribbled in my notebook:

"I wanted to be a revolutionary, but all I got was this stupid blog."

"I'm not an academic, but I play one on my blog."

UPDATE:

from gapingvoid

Photos from ETech

Photos from ETech 02/10/2004 02:51 AM

Rob Kaye is promoting bluetooth this year...

My ETech 2004 photo album (feel free to use any of the photos)

I'll be uploading through the day.

Blogging eTech

Blogging eTech 02/10/2004 02:50 AM
In addition to the slew of live-bloggers and wiki coverage already taking place at O'Reilly's Emerging Technology Conference in San Diego (Cory's a featured speaker, and I'm popping in to schmooze for a few hours later today!), Jason Calacanis just launched www.bloggingetech.com.

Etech next week

Etech next week 02/10/2004 02:47 AM

Adriaan and Boris are coming!

Emerging Technology. I will be at O'Reilly's Emerging Technology Conference in San Diego from February 9th to 12th. Joichi Ito, for whom I work, and Boris Anthony will also be present. There's going to be quite a few familiar names at ETech (e.g. Marc Canter), and I will be meeting most of them face-to-face for the first time. It should be a very busy but a good event.  [chaotic intransient prose bursts]

[etech] From the Labs

[etech] From the Labs 03/17/2005 03:00 AM
Fifteen minute presentations on what's going on in labs... Rick Rashid, Microsoft Labs. "SenseCam" is a wearable recorder, presumably part of MyLifeBits, the Gordon Bell project. He takes us under the hood. E.g., they wait for stability to take a photo in order to avoid blurriness. "The ultimate blogging tool," he says [if you've confused blogging with living]. He says there are 12 operational units so far. They're building a new generation: Smaller, GPS, continuous audio. He also talks about "surface computing" that lets you manipuate images on a surface. [It's very similar to a concept video Bruce Tognazzini did...

Etech TrackBacks

Etech TrackBacks 03/20/2003 08:50 PM
The O'Reilly Emerging Technology Conference has TrackBacks (and their associated auto-discovery RDF) baked into every single keynot e, tutor ial, se ssion, and BoF page. This means you can target your bloggings of the event, providing both us, the organizers, and your peers with live feedback on the goings on. <good on you, terrie!>

ETech TrackBacks

ETech TrackBacks 03/20/2003 09:59 PM
Rael Dornfest: _The O'Reilly Emerging Technology Conference has TrackBacks (and their associated auto-discovery RDF) baked into every single keynot e, tutorial, session, and BoF page. This means you can target your bloggings of the event, providing both us, the organizers, and your peers with live feedback on the goings on. <good on you, terrie!>_

Virtually at ETech

Virtually at ETech 02/10/2004 02:47 AM
A shout out to all my peeps at O'Reilly's ETech conference this week.  I'm disappointed I can't join you.  Tim, Rael, and company have done a marvelous job coralling the cool and the mind-blowing -- and that applies to both the ideas and the people.  ETech is bigger and more geeky than Supernova, but sometimes it's fun to let your inner geek out. 

I'll participate virtually via the blogs and other online tools.  As I've noted on the other side with Supernova, remote virtual participation isn't nearly as rich as physical presence.  But it's something.  

ETECH is coming up....

ETECH is coming up.... 01/16/2004 11:28 AM
O' Reilly's Emerging Technology Conference....

O’Reilly’s Emerging Technology Conference…

Posted Jan 15, 2004, 6:54 PM ET by Judith Meskill

O’Reilly’s Emerging Technology Conference — taking place at the Westin Horton Plaza, San Diego, CA, Feb. 9-12, 2004 — will have a Social Software track. This promises to be an excellent event with a broad spectrum of notable speakers that includes (but is certainly not limited to): Helen Greiner - iRobot Corp., Cory Doctorow - EFF, Lili Cheng - Microsoft Research, Gilman Louie - In-Q-Tel, David Sifry - Technorati, Joichi Ito - Neoteny, Elizabeth Lawley - Rochester Institute of Technology, and, of course, Tim O’Reilly - O’Reilly & Associates. [The Social Software Weblog]

This is the key event of the year.  We're gonna party like is USED to be 1999.

I'll be there - sponsored by Laszlo Systems and I'll be giving a :05 minute talk on FOAF and the PeopleAggregator.

But clearly the most exciting event will be the field trip to TJ and the House of Mole.  Something not to be missed.

Etech Bound

Etech Bound 03/14/2005 06:25 PM
Headed to my third Etech next week.  I'll only be there for part of it, so drop me a note if you want to meet....

Loïc is coming to Etech

Loïc is coming to Etech 01/12/2004 03:01 AM

Will participate at E-Tech in San Diego Feb 9 to 12, let's meet there.. Just signed up to O'Reilly's Emerging Technology Conference in San Diego, Feb 9-12.

I know many of you will be there, let me know if you have some time so that we can meet during the conference.

Hope to see many #Joiito participants at Jeannie and Jibot. [Loïc Le Meur's WebLog]

Hey - at least ONE person will be paying full fair to Etech.

Well maybe not, I'm sure Loïc will get some sort of VIP treatment and comped.  Afterall - he IS a famous French entreprenuer - right?

Etech 2004

Etech 2004 02/10/2004 02:51 AM
Off to Etech tonight, staying through Tuesday night. Proposed to do a Participant Session at the last minute on business models for social software and social networking. Its such short notice, it probably won't self-organize, so at the least I'm...

Is ETech Elitist?

Is ETech Elitist? 02/10/2004 11:47 AM
I've not had a chance to keep up with the happenings at this year's Emerging Technology Conference, but I've heard two things that bother me so far: Russell says: Interesting conference - too bad I wasn't there to get a longer impression, but boy it seemed like there were some serious pecking orders there. And someone else I know there said this via IM last night: You are missing some good conferences this week here, although I have come to...

More fun with etech audio

More fun with etech audio 03/19/2005 03:04 AM

Ev gave an amazing demo of Odeo. That thing is going to be as big (or bigger) than Flickr, I'm sure of it.

Here's the whole talk as a ogg file (my mp3 export in audacity refuses to work) and some photos of the screens on my feed (lots more I'll upload later).

Danny and Merlin's lifehacks talk was good too, here's the whole thing as an ogg file as well.

[etech] FOAF

[etech] FOAF 02/11/2004 08:25 PM
Dan Brickley is explaining Friend of a Friend. (I had a chance to talk with him about this yesterday in a hallway.) It's an XML standard that allows people to express information about themselves...the sorts of things you might say on your homepage. There are currently 2M FOAF descriptions in the world. There are different styles of FOAF files. You can be very explicit about relationships: "Jane is my arch nemesis." But there's also a more implicit, evidence-based approach: Libby and I went to the same school and work for the same organization. ("I lean toward this one," says...

Google at ETech

Google at ETech 03/11/2003 11:38 PM
This is interesting. I'm not sure what to make of it, but apparently Google is a platinum sponsor at the 2003 Emerging Technology Conference. Hm. Amazon.com, ADC, and Macromedia are also on the list. A few of the sponsors have speakers on the list of featured speakers. It looks like Google's Craig Silverstein is giving a keynote. I haven't decided if I want to try and go this year. The conference will be during a very busy time for me....

Loïc's Etech report

Loïc's Etech report 02/12/2004 03:20 PM

"No one owns who my friends are". Great FOAF session today. Dan Brickley who created FOAF, gave a good overview of what it is and how it is used.
I enjoyed the idea of dating on phones via bluetooth and FOAF.

This way you can date somebody who is in the same room, same restaurant, immediately, with the same interests as you... Great stuff.

Marc and Eric also OF COURSE showed People Aggregator. I really like the idea of linking the friends I have in Orkut with the friends I have in Linked In, with the friends I have in ...

I am not sure these networks will agree to share their databases with you (or anybody else), Marc, but let's see what happens. I agree on the fact that if we all own our own identity on a FOAF file, it is better than having to fill-it in in 10 different networks...

Also saw a demo of NewsMonster, it is an RSS reader that supports FOAF. Nice work, John. "There is too many social networks. You do not own my data, I do. "

John is also working on "Exportster", which is a plugin that should be ready within a month. Its goal is to be able to export the data from the different networks and sync them.

"We export the data from social networks and sync them all, so that there is one macro level FOAF file, in order to have a unified data model."

Tribe also announced that they support FOAF.

Greg Elin showed fotonotes.net that is coordinating a semantic photo project which is exploring the issues combining FOAF and RDF for photos, impressive.

Marc Powell talked briefly about Indyvoter.org, "injecting the virus of political dialogue into online social networks", also supporting FOAF. [Loïc Le Meur's WebLog]

BTW What my hands are trying to convey are the two dots over Loïc's letter i.  :-)

You say Etech, we say Etcon, Etech,
Etcon. Etcon, Etech.

You say Etech, we say Etcon, Etech,
Etcon. Etcon, Etech. 02/01/2005 09:56 PM
The Early Bird discounts for the O'Reilly Emerging Technology Conference run out on Monday. So hurry hurry hurry, and I'll get the first round in come March 14-17. There's a considerable amount of coolness on the program, and to balance...

Pecking at ETech?

Pecking at ETech? 02/11/2004 04:17 PM

Jeremy Zawodny

Russell says:

Russell

Interesting conference - too bad I wasn't there to get a longer impression, but boy it seemed like there were some serious pecking orders there.

And someone else I know there said this via IM last night:

You are missing some good conferences this week here, although I have come to the conclusion that a lot of the bloggers are pretty pompous.

I'm not sure what to make of that. Pecking orders? Pompous? It bothers me, I guess.

That's odd. I haven't noticed pecking or being pecked. Pompous? Nothing more or less than I would expect. I wonder if I'm missing something? I'm generally fairly sensitive about this sort of stuff. Anyone here at ETech have any specific examples?

I DO think we're talking about blogging too much, but pecking?

Via Yusuf

[etech] iRobot

[etech] iRobot 02/10/2004 02:48 PM
Helen Greiner, iRobot president and cofounder, is giving a commercial. She shows an ad. She tells us her company is hot. She tells us that her company's robotic vacuums (Roombas) pick up more dirt than conventional vacuums and cost less than the competitors. The only topic of technical interest she touches on is how Roombas escape from tricky areas of houses. In her demo of the vacuum, she actually sprinkles crumbs on the floor, like every door-to-door vacuum sales person in history. Oy veh. Vacuum robots are just the tip of the iceberg, she says. [Let's hope so.] The...

Etech Notes

Etech Notes 03/17/2005 03:37 AM
Transcribed two sessions: Wikipedia and the Future of Social Computing (video snip) Tags and Folksonomies Panel...

[etech] Technorati

[etech] Technorati 02/10/2004 02:48 PM
Dave Sifry, another of my heroes, is listing some of Technorati's stats: 1.6M sources, a new weblog every 8 seconds, the index updated within 7 mins of a posting. [I'm here even though I alsoreally wanted to see Eric Boabeau's talk] [Damn! My first draft of this put this badly! I left the "also" out of the previous sentence. I'm here because Technorati is so damn cool and interesting. And so is Eric.] Dave shows a hack he created last night: A list of the top products discussed in the last 24 hours. He has us post to our blogs...

[etech] Reinventing radio

[etech] Reinventing radio 03/17/2005 03:00 AM
Four guys from the BBC are talking about radio. They say it's a popular medium. It's growing. In fact, in terms of the hours per week people spend listening to it, radio is at an all time high. It is, they say, a re-emerging tech. The BBC Radio Player lets you listen to any radio program over the past week. They're broadcasting 4M hours of radio over the Net every week and 6M of on-demand music [or possibly vice versa]. So, they ask, how can we make radio more social and interactive? Last April they tried an on-air experiment to...

Lessig Keynote from Etech

Lessig Keynote from Etech 03/19/2005 03:04 AM

Lessig Keynote and afterwards discussion and questions, recorded on my iTrip and very lofi (9Mb and 12Mb, respectively). I'm sure high quality versions will be online in the next few weeks, but for now there's this.

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