Thursday, January 13, 2005

4:30PM: Arrived safely in Washington, DC. 

I was driving at sunrise this morning in southern South Carolina. It was foggy, the light was incredible. I had to stop and take some photos. The first one may be the most beautiful picture I've ever taken.  

A quick movie, shot at the foggy sunrise location. 

Adam Curry update: Still no broadband.  

According to this eWeek article, Microsoft is getting a centralized RSS aggregator ready for testing.  

Three years ago: "You probably aren't old enough to remember Madge." 

I found a McDonald's in North Carolina off I-95 that has wifi. I recorded a second podcast for the day. Really feeling the magic pull of the north-eastern vector. Great weather, great vibe. Can't wait to get to DC! The Wayport user interface totally sucks. There's no way to buy more than two hours at a single location. So I bought two hours then used that connection to sign up for a month at $50. Once past their poor design, the service is quite fast. I'm lovin it.™ 

Susan, I'm not proposing a centralized directory, rather a single way to subscribe to feeds that's vendor-neutral. Yahoo is trying to be that, and if successful, lock all other vendors out. Since their aggregator is just one of many, and users are not served by lock-in (and other vendors aren't likely to let Yahoo own this without a big ugly fight), it's in all our interest to try to solve this, I think even Yahoo's because there are other vendors who are even bigger than they are, and I'm sure they wouldn't like it if they tried to muscle them out of the market.  

Today's podcast is in preparation for next week's Harvard conference on blogging, journalism and credibility, I discuss integrity in the media, at much greater length than I will get a chance to at the conference. 

NY Times editorial on Apple's pricing.  

Google is going "mini" too, according to this News.Com article. "The blue box, which plugs into a corporate intranet and searches up to 50,000 documents, will go on sale Thursday at Google.com for about $5,000." 

The Triangle BloggerCon grows. February 12.