Thomas Freidman in this editorial, Global Village Idiocy, says «thanks to the Internet and satellite TV, the world is being wired together technologically, but not socially, politically or culturally. We are now seeing and hearing one another faster and better, but with no corresponding improvement in our ability to learn from, or understand, one another.»
From megnut.com - a weblog by meg hourihan comes this announcement:
When I saw this article at Wired.com, I thought of my friend, Anthony Morris over in Bavaria. (He's about to start a corporate blog and recently asked my opinion of one of the available blogging tools, Radio Userland. At the time that he asked, I was thinking only in terms of Userland's other software product, Manila, which is a more expensive product designed for coporate use.) It appears from the article referred to below that more large corporations are «getting» the fact that blogs may have uses within the corporation.
Yesterday in Dan Gillmor's Sunday column, he presents an interesting interview with Tim Berners-Lee, the man who is credited with giving birth to the World Wide Web. Here's a sample of what I found interesting in his column.
It's Mother's Day, so «Happy Mother's Day» to all you «muthas» out there. My mother, God rest her soul, died in 1985. So today I pause to think about how much and in what ways she influenced my life. In a sense, I am a reincarnation of some aspects of her behavior and approach to life, and I consider that a good thing.
As I read Dan Bricklin's description of his experiences at the Nantucket Conference 2002, the following recommendation led me to purchase the book he is describing below.
Today I begin two weeks of vacation -- much needed after a year of working almost every day without a break. Last night I received a most gracious invitation to visit San Diego and my friends, Stan and Georgia Herman. If I can make the trip without inordinate expense, I may just take them up. Stan and I have «worked» together over the last three years via the Internet, but we've never met. I think a few days together would be useful in getting to know each other better and probably improving our ability to collaborate. I may just take them up on their kind invitation.
I received a call today from The Eye Group. My new glasses are ready to be picked up. This is the first time in about four years I've gotten my eyes examined and updated my prescription. The shock was the cost of the glasses -- $523.00 -- for only one pair. I should have had my head examined instead!
The last couple of days have kept me away from the keyboard.
In an interview with Evan Williams, the prime mover behind Blogger, he made the following comment about how weblogs differ from other kinds of online communities.
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