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Rosie & I went up to the Presidio for lunch with the Archive team. Brewster manages to get a great deal done with a very small staff and a huge penumbra of friends and volunteers. Lots of fascinating stuff about the Bookmobile abroad in Africa and Asia, and met Rick Prelinger and Lisa Rein too.Afterwards we drove back to the Santa Cruz mountains for a great Mars watching Party, and had to go via...

Over the famous spicy noodles at Jing Jings, I signed up with Dave to speak at BloggerCon.I'll be on the 'Tech' Panel, where blog users talk back to vendors about technical needs, and I'm putting together a talk on the Sunday about the need for a new model for video and audio to make them more blog-like and less like voicemail.I also think I persuaded Dave to include live IRC at the conference - more...

Had a good chat with Larry about the similarities and differences between Creative Commons and mediAgora - the goals are broadly aligned, but the methods slightly differe...

iTunes iSbogus attacks iTunes store for funneling money to the record labels instead of artis...

Had a nice long chat with the MailFrontier folks about the detailed workings of their spam reduction tools Matador and Anti-spam gateway- a clever and systematic approach. I mentioned my swarming class action anti-spam id...

Met up with Ross Mayfield & Pete Kaminski of SocialText, who blend Wiki's and blogs for Enterprise customers, and build nice tools for conference communications.I think there is potential in extending the 'third place' of an online conference chatspace and combining it with a real-world cafe/bar at the conference, but you'd need a friendly host like Jeannie to make it wo...

Good to catch up with Peter again; had a great long conversation about digital media, the net, philosophy and more. he's doing interesting things with mobile devices and net standards at Kino...

Aaron, Dave and Brent have been discussing Postel's law and XML.Brent says:Some people have said that the issue with not well-formed feeds and aggregators is a kind of prisoner�s dilemma.In other words, if all aggregator developers pledged to reject not well-formed feeds, then that would be incentive for people to fix their feeds.It is a kind of Prisoner's Dilemma, but it is an iterated one. If the...

Greg Dyke is going to put the BBC archives online15 years ago, I joined the BBC as a video engineer with Television Film Services, an odd department that had dominion over (among other odd sites) Ealing Studios and the film & video archive at Windmill Road.I spent a couple of weeks at Windmill Road, working on the 2-inch Videotape machines which you could edit videotape like film on - a razorblade...

Finally an aggregation standard that can handle the nuances of forked Mornington Crescent games and WeightWatchers calculato...

That'll teach me to post weather forecasts... it rained today. (It just doesn't do that in the Bay Area in August).I'll leave the prognostications to Rosie - she called the stock peak for Apple within...

I read this article by Virginia Postrel before moving here, nearly 6 years ago now; it seems appropriate today.Silicon Valley's perfect weather means you don't need backup plans, just in case it rains. It means you don't resent spending a beautiful day inside at work, because tomorrow and tomorrow and tomorrow will be just as gorgeous. It means you have more energy, sapped neither by sleep-inducing...

How instant IM criticism tanks over-hyped movies:The problem, they say, is teenagers who instant message their friends with their verdict on new films - sometimes while they are still in the cinema watching - and so scuppering carefully crafted marketing campaigns designed to lure audiences out to a big movie on its opening weekend."In the old days, there used to be a term, 'buying your gross,' "...

Joi and Ross have been talking about finding work through 'weak ties'.I came to Apple in 1998 through just such a route - I had been a regular contributor to the QuickTime-API and QuickTime-Talk mailing lists, so when I was interviewed and hired, many of my new colleagues were people I'd been sharing software hacks, hints and jokes with for many years. The trust I had built up in them meant that I...

Frank Pierson's commencement address to USC Film School is stirring, but has more rhetoric than answers:We have to remind ourselves that this viewer is only another aspect of ourselves, that we have also in us-as he does-a better part, that needs to be cultivated and to express itself. There is no single audience with a single personality. There is the larger audience-currently under-served-that has...

Joi points out a new scientist story about Duncan Watts' experiment that shows 6 degrees of separation, even though Milgram didn't - most of his messages didn't get through.As well as getting this backwards, the article says:The researchers were surprised to discover that message chains did not rely on a few highly connected individuals, so-called "hubs". Previous research by Watts and fellow Cornell...

I've discussed Power law distributions in the context of music, box office and other charts and the danger of modelling them with gaussians - you over weight the 'top ten' hits, and ignore the 'long tail' of many smaller creators.The stock market has a complementary problem. Options pricing is done using a model known as Black-Scholes, that has as a key parameter historical volatility, and the variance...

Xeni picks up on itFisking is normally more one-sided than this - I call the QuickTopic twist 'Social Fisking', as it can become a conversation.The best classic Fisking I've seen was Lawmeme vs Franc...

Xeni Jardin points to an article she wrote for Grammy magazine on compulsory licensing.I've fisked it using QuickTopic.If you want to join in, please...