From the monthly archives: February 2007

Coffee Cam

By On February 9, 2007 · 1 Comment

The Trojan Room Coffee cam was the first web cam. It was set up to see if coffee was ready in another room. Geeks are lazy by nature. Laziness inspires all kinds of great innovation!

Don Sizemore has set up a web cam to see how long a line is at an [...]

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Change.org

By On February 9, 2007 · Leave a Comment

A new social networking site for non-profits and causes called Change.org has launched. It uses Web 2.0 stuff (tag clouds, groups, blogs, etc.) to help people organize around issues and create… Change. (I hope)

Its a beautiful idea that lots of smart people have been thinking about and working on. Nice to see [...]

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Will DRM disapear?

By On February 7, 2007 · 1 Comment

This is my favorite part of Steve Jobs letter Thoughts on Music:

The third alternative is to abolish DRMs entirely. Imagine a world where every online store sells DRM-free music encoded in open licensable formats. In such a world, any player can play music purchased from any store, and any store can sell [...]

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More Local Individual Blogs

By On February 7, 2007 · Leave a Comment

Props to Ed for giving thanks where its due, LOCAL BLOGS.

Via Ed Cone:

…the power of the internets does not lie only in building a new generation of high-traffic sites. Individual voices speaking to relatively small audiences can be powerful and useful things, and that may be especially true at the local [...]

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Understanding Edwards position on Marriage Equality

By On February 7, 2007 · Leave a Comment

Pam has a great post about John Edwards answers on Meet the Press concerning Marriage Equality. Edwards seems to still be on the fence. He’s for civil unions but not ready to say Gays have the right to marry. As a commenter on Pam’s House Blend said, “This isn’t the answer I want to [...]

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Open your Content: More good advice for the MSM

By On February 7, 2007 · Leave a Comment

John Joseph Bachir adds this bit of advice for the mainstream media. See his post, Television talking to bloggers (and: I was on TV!!!!!!!!1111111one), for full context.

WNBC wants to take advantage of a more distributed information collection model. Fine. But this does not bridge the gap between old media (TV) and [...]

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Arctic Weather and Tara the Cat

By On February 7, 2007 · 1 Comment

Now back to our regularly scheduled program of boring bloggers witting about the weather and their cats.

Yesterday in Chapel Hill was COLD. I mean arctic cold! Trust me. Even tho’ I hate the cold weather and cover just about every inch of my skin when I go out doesn’t mean it wasn’t cold. Poor [...]

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Snarky Bloggers and Why I Don’t Trust the MSM

By On February 5, 2007 · 2 Comments

David Kirk wrote a blog post called Press Tries to Meet Snarky Local Bloggers about three people who commented on NBC-17′s invite to meet with a bunch of bloggers. My response is a bit out of context here so please go read his blog post or see part of it bellow for context. [...]

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Matryomin

By On February 4, 2007 · Leave a Comment

A description of this wonderful music by YouTube user sasayakanaru:

This electronic musical instrument is called “Matryomin“. This was developed by Japanese musician [Masami Takeuchi] ,made by the base of “Theremin” and Russian dall “Matryoshka“.The interval and the volume are controlled by holding up the hand in [...]

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Tips for the MSM on How to flirt with Bloggers

By On February 3, 2007 · 4 Comments

A few suggestions for the Main Stream Media on how to flirt with bloggers.

1) Hold meet and greet events with bloggers After work hours. Weekends work too.

2) Buy bloggers food and drinks.

3) Pick carefully the names for your events. Don’t use the word ‘Ascertainment’. ex. “Triangle Blogger Community Ascertainment” Have you ever [...]

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