What I’ve Seen

This e-government conference looks interesting and is just far enough away to be a target time for me to get something up, running and buzzing in the Public Service Conversations area – whether I go to it or not.

Dave reminds us of what we still don’t know about Odeo. And Adam talks about advertising and making money in podcasting. What bugs me about Odeo is that they’re a “podcasting” company without any podcasts! How much credibility does that show – would you have bought blogging from Evan if he didn’t have a blog…

I’ve been using these inkernets for more than ten years now, so perhaps I’m a bit jaded and not in the target audience, but I can’t actually see anything of use in the UK Government’s launch of ITsafe. It looks like someone’s GCSE coursework project It has very little information – None of its publications…

Lessig is podcasting … in his own way. He reads aloud from his latest published work in Wired – a good piece on public funding of wi-fi – but the fact that he’s “just” reading it gets a lot more comment than the content of what he says. He does explain up front, on his…

Just saw the first instalment of the UK version of The Apprentice. I didn’t see very much of the Trump original, but from what I did see, our version (with Sir Alan Sugar in the megalomaniac [err… shurely giant of modern commerce] role) seems a little less theatrical but the format comes through, although the…

Update: Note to self, shut gob till know what talking about. The way I describe that the stream should work is exactly how it works – it just doesn’t do that on the first batch of stuff when you import your subscriptions. From then on, it’s working fine. Still would like an enclosure link and…

Jack brings another angle on tags/folksonomies “tagging is personal. My set of tags for this blog only make sense within the context of my blog and my interests. Sure, I try to come up with tags that are sensible to the visitor, and I even create short descriptions of what I mean by “theory of…

On the Wikipedia:Community Portal page there’s an exhortation to help with the Collaboration of the Week. “Help edit Soviet Military History“, it says. Good God – hasn’t it been edited enough in the last 90 years??!!!?!!

Dave points to a bit of scaremongering about publically provided wifi and says: Citiwide wifi systems will make new products possible. Imagine an iPod that had wifi built-in. While you’re walking around NYC it could check if any of your feeds have updated. This is one of those things you gotta know we’re going to…

Great pictures on AKMA’s flickr stream of the fun today in Chicago – I miss having enough snow here for snowballing. Two aspects obviously differentiate the Chicago event from the European predecessors that I’m sure will have affected the conversation subtly – fewer women (Lilia, I think was the only one!) and a higher proportion…