Just like Carrboro to be in the lead; this time beating Spring by a few days.
The pickings are slim this time of year, remember it snowed here on Wednesday of this week. Lots of plant sets. Greenhouse tomattoes. Cut flowers are daffodils. Organic meats.
Archive for March, 2005Flying back from the Emerging Technologies Conference in San Diego took most all of today. The mystery of American Airlines trying unsuccessfully to sell boxed food continues. They offer it. $3 for a box that no one wants. People open their bags of sandwiches that they paid $6 for in the airport. We sit eating only slightly better food for which we paid twice as much. Chris DiBona, who is now OpenSource Project manager at Google, announced http://code.google.com. Note that Google is using SourceForge to host their open projects. Chris named SourceForge back in the day. We still run a SourceForge download mirror on ibiblio.org Larry Lessig announced that his book, Code, will be available for update via wiki beginning today (hosted by JotSpot) Odeo the podcasting company presented (but not live or even in Beta quite yet). BBC’s Paula Le Dieu will be heading up the Creative Commons International efforts from London. Jeff Bezos announced and demoed A9.com’s openSearch. Yahoo Tech Labs announced the Tech Buzz Market Game. O’Reilly announced their new Where Conference to take place June 29 – 30 in SFO. It will:
Bloglines/Ask Jeeves purchase explained. (in more details that the article that I linked to there).
Mar
17
2005
Jessamyn West to be here on MondayPosted by Paul in Alumni and other friends, General, Information Commons, Virtual CommunitiesReminder that Jessamyn West will be here (here being Chapel Hill as here is actually San Diego for me at the moment) on Monday. A great way to keep up with the conference here is the eTech Attention Stream which combines postings tagged as eTech or eTech2005 from Flickr, technorati, and del.icio.us.
Mar
17
2005
Sally at IsThatLegal; Library of Congress at DukePosted by Paul in Alumni and other friends, GeneralSally is stepping in for Eric Muller at his IsThatLegal.org blog and going to a conference on Southern (North) American History. Jeff PomeRantz tells about the history of Dewey vs Library of Congress at Duke University. The Duke Librarian writing in 1937 thought that the Library of Congress classification system was a fab. Duke is still trying to get to LC even now. More that I can tell here. Musicbrainz guy and best haircut at any conference title holder, Robert Kaye gives a heads up on what’s up today.
Mar
16
2005
eTech – day onePosted by Paul in Alumni and other friends, FOO Camp, General, Information CommonsI wasn’t on the elevator when it stalled with Doc, Steve Gillmor and Justin on board. That was definitely an upside of the conference. Each of them had an amusing version of the maybe 15 minutes of terror. I was there to see Jeff Bezos click on YES when his computer prompted him that “Software update available install now?” I was amongst the ones shouting NO! Jeff went on to announce A9’s open search. I was there when the folks from Yahoo! and O’Reilly announced the release of the Tech Buzz Game “a fantasy prediction market for high-tech products, concepts, and trends.” I was delighted by Danny Hillis’ (of Applied Minds and founder of Thinking Machines) robots, maps, and highly modified H2. There is more to say about today, but I’m competely pooped and others have some good initial takes down here. Former King of Cambodia, Norodom Sihanouk has a blog of mostly official papers that have been scanned. Interesting to see his underlinings and comments on things. Helpful if you can read French and/or Cambodian. He’s been at it for over a year and his web site has been a subject of internet curiosity for sometime. John Edwards will be podcasting (thanks Brian). From http://johnedwards.com
There are quite a few folks blogging the sessions today so I’m going to give you (and me) the collective link fromWeblogs, Inc. and write about other things that go on later. Settled into hotel. IM from Doc, who is to be my roommate, saying that he’s up in LA at a Starbucks and will be late. To me it’s late already since I’m on East Coast time. It had to be a joke! I get on the plane and after the too salty to even think about eating pretzels are handed out (remember that dehydration is the most common problem in air travel) and then the diuretic drinks dispensed, there is an announcement. Something about a new service from American Air Lines. We can now buy a box meal! For $3, you get the stuff that you didn’t want to eat when it was free. Salami. Dried fruit bits. Oreos. $3. Let me say it again $3!
Mar
14
2005
Jessamyn West (3/21); Jones to eTechPosted by Paul in Alumni and other friends, General, Information Commons, Virtual CommunitiesA quick reminder before I hop on the plane. Jessamyn West will be speaking here in Chapel Hill on Monday March 21.
Mar
13
2005
Modern Love (the poetry and the music)Posted by Paul in Amusements, General, literature
Small personal note: I was a reader/reviewer for some of Paul Muldoon’s earlier works when they were being published by Wake Forest University Press and the wonderful Dillon Johnston (who looks much more like an older rock star than Muldoon). I particularly remember the joy of reading his complex Quoof in manuscript. I still believe that Quoof is the most significant book in the Muldoon canon.
Mar
12
2005
A. Miller Alerts Us to Chris Abani appearance in NCPosted by Paul in Alumni and other friends, General, literatureSouth African friend, Andie Miller reminds us that exiled Nigerian poet/novelist, Chris Abani will be here in NC. At last report, Abani is scheduled to be speaking in Raleigh at NCSU’s Human Rights Week on Monday March 28 6:30 in Williams Hall. NCSU’s site says:
Aardman Animation’s best characters, Wallace and Gromit, have a feature film, “The Curse of the Wererabbit,” coming out in October 2005. A preview (in Quicktime) is up on the Apple site now.
Mar
11
2005
Mark and Darfur in the IndependentPosted by Paul in Alumni and other friends, General, News of NewsBarbara Solow has a good write up on Mark McCarthy and his work with the Humanitarian Information Centre in Sudan and Darfur this week in the Independent in their Front Porch Section or here down under “Information is power.” |













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