02 Jul 2002

Tue, 02 Jul 2002

What do George W and Martha Stewart have in common?

Paul Krugman in the NY Times: "But long before that ruling — though only a few weeks before bad news that could not be concealed caused Harken's shares to tumble — Mr. Bush sold off two-thirds of his stake, for $848,000. Just for the record, that's about four times bigger than the sale that has Martha Stewart in hot water. Oddly, though the law requires prompt disclosure of insider sales, he neglected to inform the S.E.C. about this transaction until 34 weeks had passed. An internal S.E.C. memorandum concluded that he had broken the law, but no charges were filed. This, everyone insists, had nothing to do with the fact that his father was president."

Read the whole article. It's too good to miss.

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Have you seen BlogSkins?

Check it out: www.blogskins.com. I love the subtitle, Who needs content?. They have skins for blogs based on Blogger or Movable Type. Cool.

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Dave Winer on big and little companies

Dave Winer says: "Just as blogs are the cure for integrity outages at the BigPubs, LittleCo's will be our haven from the excesses of the idiots who run the BigCo's. Microbusinesses and microcontent." And I say that's great, Dave. Somebody just needs to explain to me and my cohorts where to find these little companies. I've talked to a number of people locally, west, and east coast, all of whom express some difficulty finding a gig with any company, let alone a little company. I'll bet there are a lot of people out there just like me who'd love nothing more than to work for the proverbial little company like yours, but the hiring rate and resources of the typical little company aren't going to make that a reality for the majority of us anytime soon. I guess the real message in Dave's post is that if you have an idea and the energy, do it. That's what I'd like to do, but I'm not the first person to discover that it's real hard to keep the day gig and hack from midnight to 5am. Sigh.

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Freezing mountaineer saved by telemarketer

An unbelievable story from robertrainwater.com.

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Wayne Krantz Live

Listening to Wayne Krantz live with Tim LeFebvre on bass and Keith Carlock on drums. This is some wacked stuff. If your mind can handle it, check it out. Some wicked power trio grooves.

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Apple buys Emagic

What do I know: Apple buys Emagic, makers of Logic. You might not recognize the name if you don't dabble in the pro audio world, but suffice it to say that Apple's now a serious player in the pro audio software market. I'm real curious to see where this leads. Go Apple!

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The weblog revolution rolls on

gate39.com: Notorious blogger and journalist, Andrew Sullivan believes that:

"Weblogs are to words what Napster was to music ... and -- to invoke Marx -- [they] seize the means of production".

Read the entire article here. Be sure to check out the graphic also.

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Jon Udell explains Jon Schull's blog thread visualization

An interesting article from Jon Udell. This kind of clarity is hard to find in the web world. It's also really useful to explain to traditional media folks why this model is different, powerful, and profound.

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Update RSS feed to RDF feed

If you subscribe to my RSS feed which was previously here, please update your news aggregator to use the new RSS 1.0 feed or the RSS 0.91 feed instead. There won't be any updates to the old Radio blog or it's RSS feed. From this point forward, all the news that's fit to print is going right here in Movable Type. I've tried to leave all of the old Radio archives in place so as not to break searches coming in from Google and the like. Please let me know if there are any problems associated with this change. I'm sure I've missed more than a few things. Thanks!

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Radio To Movable Type - Done!

Well, after running into the Radio change-o-month bug for the third month in a row, I finally decided to really bite the bullet and make the long overdue migration from Radio to Movable Type. I beat on radio till 2am last night trying to get the dreaded can't upstream messages to go away and then I beat on it for several hours this morning to no avail. I decided that was enough. I had documented my findings months ago, received numerous thank you emails from people who ran into the same bug I did, and some flames too from people that thought I made too much noise about it.

Well, I'm glad it's behind me now. No hard feelings. I really like Radio. I think it has tremendous potential. I just don't think it got enough QA and the ratio of bug fixes to new features is a bit unbalanced IMHO.

Hope everybody likes the new site, I'm no graphic design wizard so I'm letting the CSS handle the layout, color, and fonts. I'll play around with it a bit going forward. I'm just excited to bang on a new system for a while, see what it's limitations are, bitch, moan, learn, grow.

Thanks to Ben and Mena Trott for a great application!

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