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| Thursday, October 16, 2003 |
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Journalismo 
| | Well, I'm of two minds. I certainly can see that scenario, where all these new technologies may only be good enough to destroy all the old standards but not create something better to replace them with. I think that's certainly one scenario. The other possibility right now -- it sometimes seems we have a world full of bloggers and that blogging is the future of journalism, or at least that's what the bloggers argue, and to my mind, it's not clear yet whether blogging is anything more than CB radio . |
| | And, you know, give it five or 10 years and see if any institutions emerge out of it. It's possible that in the end there may be some small subset of people who find a livelihood out of it and that the rest of the people will find that, you know, keeping their diaries online is not the most useful thing to with their time. |
| | Dave says "he's not listening," and he's right. Or reading either, apparently. |
| | So John, if you're reading this, here's the deal. Weblogs are journals. Newspapers are journals. Both have their place in the market ecology. All blogs do is change that ecology. Thanks to blogs, there are more writers, more angles, more ways to come at stories, dig up facts, float ideas and develop understandings. |
| | Blogs change the old ecology of journalism, just like every other new medium that's come along over the decades. The difference this time is that everybody is in a position to participate. That changes things radically. |
| | Still, it changes things with AND logic, not OR. Blogs only enlarge the swamp where all journalistic species live. The only threat to any species is failure to adapt. And there are an endless variety of ways to do that. |
Shoot 'em up
Digital Whydentity, cont'd
| | Exclusionary security models don't enable business. |
| | What's the other letter we can add to LAMP? |
| | Regulatory issues are the sticks. cost savings are the carrots. |
| | WS* is an example of a cartel in action. |
Jay's First Ten
Trackforward
| | I just added a Speaking/Travel list to the 'roll on the left, in case I'm not the only one who might want to see where I'm going. |
| | I'm also thinking of getting rid of the "Top Archive Days" list. I put it up over a year ago, when I was thinking about doing a "best of the blog" book. I never got any energy going around that project, and (unlike the Blogroll on the right) I doubt anybody would be hurt if I took it down. But I don't know if anybody actually finds it useful. If so, let me know. Otherwise, I think I'll find a better use for the space. |
XpertID
| | The purpose of the Xpertweb protocol is to locate each of its users in a web of acquaintance. Every user is located in a formal, stable web like Cringely describes, but each is also in an ad hoc web of those with whom she buys and sells stuff. Here's an example of what the formal web looks like, in this case with explicit connectors to, mirabile dictu!, 10 others as in Cringely's example. |
| | This month Roland and I further refined the Xpertweb DIY DigID architecture. It's an approach that's obvious, unsophisticated and totally user-controlled, enough to earn my affections. This won't help get you on a 747, at least initially, but it will help you do business with people you don't know and will never meet. |
| | Wish Britt were here so he could make his case in person as well. |
Soy boy scores
| | From the Star Tribune: The Rapid Rise of Soy is the story of how my cousin Darrol Sponberg and fellow farmers from Hope, Minn, are tapping into the fastest growing food category in the U.S. Their organization is Sunrich Food Group. An excerpt: |
| | Driving the surge is soy milk, with sales in mainstream supermarkets growing at a rate of 25 percent a year, said Peter Golbitz, president of Soyatech Inc., a market research firm and publisher in Bar Harbor, Maine... |
| | Right now, soy milk accounts for 2 percent of all U.S. dairy consumption. But Golbitz estimates it will grab 5 to 10 percent by 2010, creating a nearly $3 billion market. |
| | The Sunrich farmers produce 40 percent of the organic soy milk and soy base that other companies across the nation use to make soy milk, said President Allan Routh. |
| | "They're like the big soy cow, and everybody's milking them," Golbitz said of the Minnesota company. |
More Bluetooth Blues
| | Okay, so here's the impasse. On the Sony Camera, I click on Network, then go to Network Setup, then to Bluetooth Setup. There I go to Select, then "New." This brings up a "searching Bluetooth device" progress window. Under "Result" it says "17 inch" under "Device Name." That's my laptop. If I click on that, it wants a passcode. By an arduous process, I enter the 8-key passcode for my laptop. The laptop tells me to enter the same passcode to "pair," which will establish a relationship with the camera. I do. Now the name of the camera replaces the hardware address on the "Select Bluetooth Device" window of the laptop. Meanwhle the camera says "Bluetooth connection error." When I double-click on the camera name on the laptop, it says "Unable to validate device." I repeat. Same thing happens. |
| | More than yesterday, anyway. |
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