GeodogStill Tilting at WindmillsMy special hosting plan with webhostplus (formerly netbunch)- March 30, 2006 My server at webhostplus went down tonight, as has become a weekly occurrence, so I decided to try the chat tech support. The folllowing is a verbatim transcript: "echo5 down" geodog : my site, twjb.com on echo5 seems to be down geodog : both email and http geodog : hello You are now speaking with Darryl, NetBunch. Darryl : Thank you for contacting Technical Support. My name is Darryl. How may I help you geodog : my site, twjb.com geodog : on echo5 seems to be down geodog : both...http://www.thebishop.net/geodog/archives/2006/03/29/my_special_hosting_plan_with_webhostpl... More Berkeley Bumper Stickers- March 26, 2006 Like my fellow Berkeley resident Tracey Taylor, I have a facination with the bumper stickers of Berkeley. It is hard to imagine another town with as varied and pointed a display as I see around me in Berkeley. I can almost always count on a chuckle at seeing a new one as I walk to work. I ran across two this month which seemed worth sharing. The first was seen on the front windshield of a van in Andronico's Park and Rob parking lot, "Buck Fush." The second, "Time to Impeach: For..http://www.thebishop.net/geodog/archives/2006/03/25/more_berkeley_bumper_stickers.html Fun at the San Francisco Web Innovators Network- March 24, 2006 Tonight I hoofed it over the city to check out the San Francisco Web Innovators Network, organized by Chris Law of Aggregate Knowledge and friends, and hosted by the not as evil as the past Microsoft (they are learning from Scoble). I'd only met Chris Law a couple of times before, usually in the company of his smooth talking business partner Paul Martino, and I took Chris for your typical technically brilliant guy with limited social skills. Boy was I wrong. Chris Law may look like your typical.http://www.thebishop.net/geodog/archives/2006/03/24/fun_at_the_san_francisco_web_innovator... Berkeley Cybersalon: Journalism vs. blogging = Yawn- March 20, 2006 Sylvia Paull has a gift for getting smart people together, and tonight's Berkeley Cybersalon was evidence of that. The panel she put together on journalism and blogging included John Markoff from the NYT, bloggers Jory des Jardins and Lisa Stone from Blogher, journoblogger Steve Gillmor, and analyst Joshua Greenbaum. She made a very curious choice for moderator, neoconservative Andrew Keen, who recently made a stir in the blogosphere with his defense of elitism, and who, judging from his blog,..http://www.thebishop.net/geodog/archives/2006/03/19/berkeley_cybersalon_journalism_vs_blog... Winning the so-called war on terrorism, one tortured prisoner at a time- March 18, 2006 This is how Rumsfeld and the Bush administration thinks we are going to convince 1 billion Muslims that Osama bin Laden is wrong about America From today's NYT: The heart of the camp was the Battlefield Interrogation Facility, alternately known as the Temporary Detention Facility and the Temporary Holding Facility. The interrogation and detention areas occupied a corner of the larger compound, separated by a fence topped with razor wire. Unmarked helicopters flew detainees into the camp almost..http://www.thebishop.net/geodog/archives/2006/03/18/winning_the_socalled_war_on_terrorism_... Sarah McLachlan puts her money where her mouth is- March 12, 2006 It is inspiring to see an artist make such a clear statement of values. If you haven't seen Sarah McLachlan's latest video, I highly recommend it. I found it extremely moving....http://www.thebishop.net/geodog/archives/2006/03/12/sarah_mclachlan_puts_her_money_where_h... Impressions and links from opening day ETech 2006 Keynotes- March 7, 2006 Rael Dornfest gave his welcome to ETech speech. Lots of little bon mots and name dropping, but not really a talk. ETech is a radar conference, for amplifying weak signals. To put together small pieces yet to be loosely joined. Rael said that the conference was bigger than before, and sold out. He promised some big announcements. Funny how ETech has become a place to launch products companies, after the success of Flickr and Delicious at being acquired after being launched at Etech. Themes that.http://www.thebishop.net/geodog/archives/2006/03/07/impressions_and_links_from_opening_day... First impressions of Day One of Etech 2006- March 7, 2006 ETech is big, much bigger than 2003 or 2004. Someone said that there were a thousand people in the room for the opening keynotes, and I believe it. I guess the industry is back (or another bubble is forming). There were lots of familiar faces, people like Doc Searls, Phil Windley and Robert Kaye, who I think of as the grey hairs of the conference set, as well as the people like danah boyd, Joel Spolsky, Scot Rosenberg, Kevin Burton and Rohit Khare, whom I have seen at lots of previous...http://www.thebishop.net/geodog/archives/2006/03/06/first_impressions_of_day_one_of_etech_... |