- September 14-17, 2006: Aspen, CO
- September 21-24, 2006: Amagansett, NY
- October 21-26, 2006: Austin, TX
- October 27-29, 2006: Pittsburgh, PA (MAPW Reunion....maybe)
I'd like to go to the Web 2.0 conference again but 1) the price increase this year took it from expensive to insanely expensive (even including the "alumni discount) and 2) I have a negative travel budget.
e.p.c. posted this at 10:00 GMT on 12-Sep-2006 from Brooklyn, NY.
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- Proposed design for Beijing 2008 TOC via Archinect.
- What News Corp doesn't want you to know about MySpace: Condensed edition. Alleges that Myspace is far from a viral success and is instead the result of a cold, calculated business play. Duh.
- Sex Baiting Prank on Craigslist Affects Hundreds: this is the best coverage I've read about the prank so far. In brief, a guy in Seattle posts an ad to Craigslist Seattle, posing as a woman who wants sex. He then posted all of the replies he received via email to a public site. A warning: many of the links are NSFW. My initial take is that this was a terrible prank played on unsuspecting people. But it is also an interesting window into people's expectations of privacy and willingness to suspend their suspicions when interacting on a site like Craigslist. Strip away that this was initially about sex, replace it with a generic “legal activity that is acceptable to some people but not necessarily the public at large”. Should people be held up to shame for whatever their belief/practice/gender/employment/race is? Would we accept this behaviour offline? It's the second
privacy wakeup call
in the past week (after the Facebook fiasco).
- Bill Stumpff, designer of the Aeron chair, passed away last week. The Aeron Chair is the sacred, most holy chair for web professionals everywhere. Brief story: Lisa and I spent a weekend at the W Union Square in 2001. We're walking around the block (18th Street between Park Avenue South and Irving Place). Just east of the W is a large, low slung building with cubicle after cubicle of identical cubes, each with its own Aeron chair. We both said “that's gotta be a dot com”. Rounding the block on 18th we discovered we were close, it was the offices of MarchFirst (which imploded shortly afterwards in the dotcom meltdown).
I briefly caught the Thursday night edition of the CBS Evening News with Katie Couric. Briefly because, well, I don't normally watch the 22 minute digest of the world's news, and more importantly: that night's Free Speech
segment was handed over to Rush Limbaugh. Limbaugh has had a show on major radio networks across the U.S. for nearly 20 years. I don't think he is the sort of person who needs more coverage. So I turned off the show, and apparently many others did as well.
- I am playing with Harvest for time tracking.
- An interesting followup to last week's dustup over comments by Arnold Schwarzenegger printed in the Los Angeles Times: the comments were on digital audio recordings (unclear why the recordings were made), which in turn were stored on California state computers with limited access. Schwarzenegger's Computer Security Is Probed and Arniegate: I'll be hacked describe that the comments were recorded digitally and stored on computers, whose security was then breeched. About the comments, the LA Times writes:
In the recorded conversation, the governor describes Republican lawmakers as a “wild bunch” and ascribes the “hot” temperament of Assemblywoman Bonnie Garcia (R-Cathedral City) to a mix of “black blood” and “Latino blood.”
- Two blogs I've started reading in the past week: Get Rich Slowly and Web Worker Daily.
- Lou Rosenfeld has posted the survey results for a survey for Search Analytics for your Site.
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e.p.c. posted this at 15:33 GMT on 12-Sep-2006 from Brooklyn, NY.
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