The announcement is very exciting - I was there when
he made it.
But it's scary, too.
At the panel. "Doc" Searles praised GeoCities as being an early example of web apps helping people publish online - empowering folks to put their own shit out there.
As former Senior Web Developer for GeoCities, I appreciate his sentiment. That's why I loved working there - and what makes the Internet special.
On the Net - no matter how much big media wants to
monopolize it as a pipe to deliver the same old content - the Net is about the uploads, not the downloads. It's about you, and me, and that grrrl over there.
I fervently hope the Google purchase of Pyra doesn't result in a Borg-like assimilation of Blogger.com; GeoCities _disappeared_ as a brand after we were assimilated by Yahoo!
If Blogger lowers the threshold by making web publishing as easy as sending an email, the other
interesting tidbit that came out of the Blogosphere
event was the demonstration of audio blogging from the
folks from AudBlog.com.
Dial AudBlog, enter your s3kr!+ PIN on the cell phone, and you're on the air! You can hold up the phone
to record events (this was the mind-blowing way they showed off the product) or talk to the hand to "tell your story."
If Blogger made self-publishing as easy as email AudBlog makes it easy as dialing a phone!
Congrats to the Pyra people, props to Doc, and good luck AudBlog!
If so, sign the pet ition @ e-thepeople.com:
"We, the undersigned, hereby state that each of us is the child whose heart was turned dark by time on the Internet, as mentioned by the Governor during the second Presidential debate.
Further, we hereby declare the Governor to be a big smirky doofus."
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We set up an entire @Astro_Jose section http://pocho.com/tag/jose-hernandez/
We wrote him a song (music video) http://pocho.com/this-is-ground-control-to-major-juan-song-for-a-latino-astronaut/
The announcement is very exciting - I was there when he made it.
But it's scary, too.
At the panel. "Doc" Searles praised GeoCities as being an early example of web apps helping people publish online - empowering folks to put their own shit out there.
As former Senior Web Developer for GeoCities, I appreciate his sentiment. That's why I loved working there - and what makes the Internet special.
On the Net - no matter how much big media wants to monopolize it as a pipe to deliver the same old content - the Net is about the uploads, not the downloads. It's about you, and me, and that grrrl over there.
I fervently hope the Google purchase of Pyra doesn't result in a Borg-like assimilation of Blogger.com; GeoCities _disappeared_ as a brand after we were assimilated by Yahoo!
If Blogger lowers the threshold by making web publishing as easy as sending an email, the other interesting tidbit that came out of the Blogosphere event was the demonstration of audio blogging from the folks from AudBlog.com.
Dial AudBlog, enter your s3kr!+ PIN on the cell phone, and you're on the air! You can hold up the phone to record events (this was the mind-blowing way they showed off the product) or talk to the hand to "tell your story."
If Blogger made self-publishing as easy as email AudBlog makes it easy as dialing a phone!
Congrats to the Pyra people, props to Doc, and good luck AudBlog!
For more elegant photos from the very same Kuwait photo shoot
go to and see photos of an alien space brother visiting Kuwait.
Also another iPod was part of another adventure - a sinister one - @
"I Was An Alien Lab Rat"
Enjoy!
VOIDMSTR AKA SpaceBrother Number One
If so, sign the pet ition @ e-thepeople.com: "We, the undersigned, hereby state that each of us is the child whose heart was turned dark by time on the Internet, as mentioned by the Governor during the second Presidential debate.
Further, we hereby declare the Governor to be a big smirky doofus."
Another good story on CRUITHNE, the astronomical object formerly known as an asteroid, is at space.com.
I wonder why this is a story now?
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