Author: Walter

The conversation continues… THE WI-FI PEANUT GALLERY

“… All this happened last month in Scottsdale, Ariz., and will be happening again and again as more conference venues get “wired” with wireless.”

“… What’s going on here?

“As always, the phenomenon is happening first in a reflexive way — as you may expect, at conferences where the subject is computers. But such phenomena have a way of spreading.”

Esther Dyson is reporting on the PC forum – I think it is the first time i have read a report on the mooted shift happening – a room full of people f2f and online at the same time. The future is not being old & bloated & fed intraveinously while we are yourthful online. We will be fully physically alive, solitary or social and mixing the virtual into our actual with ease.

And yes – it happens reflexively at techno events but will soon be ubiquitous.

O’Reilly Network: iBooks Love Linux [Mar. 29, 2002] iBooks Love Linux
by Edd Dumbill

03/29/2002

“It feels a bit like a homecoming. After years wandering in the cranky wilderness of mix-and-match PCs I’m working again on a computer that feels like it has a soul. The reason I feel like this? The other week I switched from an Intel-based laptop to an iBook.”

I have a Dell laptop running Mandrake – and while there is sometheing extra soulful about Debian on the iBook – I have a machine that has plenty of soul! 15″ 1600×1200 playing K.D. Lang DVD while I work must be up there… or down pretty deep into soulful. The thing is that hardware aside, to be out of MS is bliss. I feels like being in a good restaurant after hanging out at Mc Donald’s for years.

They Rule

Josh’s project – you will need Flash 5.

They Rule

Josh’s project – you will need Flash 5.

E Y E B E A M | atelier SOCIAL NETWORK SOIREE: DISCUSSION, CHAMPAGNE, EXPERIMENT

‘Eyebeam, the not-for-profit organization dedicated to art and technology, will host an interdisciplinary panel discussion entitled Social Network Soirée: Discussion, Champagne, Experiment. The event will take place on May 14, 2002 at 6:30pm in Eyebeam’s space in Chelsea located at 540 West 21st Street, between 10th and 11th Aves. The discussion will address the social dynamics that drive fashion trends, enable salacious gossip, fuel Internet crazes and sustain corporate power structures. Each panelist will use social network analysis to explain a transformation in art, technology, or culture. A cocktail party will follow the discussion, where guests wear wireless badges called meme tags that track and analyze social interaction in real time. To participate in the experiment, guests will mingle, listen to freshly spun electronica, and sip complimentary mini-Moet champagne.”

I mention this cause it is interesting and also being the Josh On parent.

Ducks on the Avon

Took this years ago – it was the first digital picture i ever took – and i stumbled across it while tidying up. I like it.

Anita Konkka Literary Web Site

“Anita Konkka is a Finnish novel writer. She has published since 1970 eleven novels, essays, radio-plays, and a dream-book. She is a tireless scholar of love and love relationships, problematic ones, too. However, she doesn’t portray her characters as enervated by love or otherwise with furrowed brow. In these Finnish latitudes she is able to write about love and its troublesome and unhappy aspects humorously and as though smiling, not derisively or with pity but friendly and understandingly.”

Nice to hear from you again Anita!

DaveNet : In rebuttal to Glenn Davis

“Davis says that the gee-whiz hello-world days of the Web are over. It’s true it was fun (for a few minutes) to watch a fish tank on a webcam. But that was not the promise or purpose of the Web. Maybe he thought that’s what it was. If so, he missed the point. It’s about publishing without middlemen.”

Dave Winer also wrote something about Glen Davies… see my post below.

Publishing without middlemen – reading without middlemen – can this happen? It is happening now – but new media wil not replace old, only transform it.

Stupendous Links The Links of John Morgan

A really nice page of links – backs up the notion “show me your links and i know who you are” – i have a sense i know John Morgan from links and nothjing else.