Dana's Blog: AMA Blog Discussion Recap.

Fellow I-man fans, do you miss the chemistry between Paul Ben-Victor and Vincent Ventresca from THE INVISIBLE MAN series? Damned if I don't. How'd you like to catch some brand new banter between these two great actors on NBC? It turns out favorite I-Man director Greg Yaitanes (and director of Children of Dune) has just cast them in an upcoming episode of Las Vegas with James Caan. How cool is that! I'm psyched (I got an early peek at the script and I can honestly say it will be perfect!)

Nice, I just republished all the entries of supertectonics labs to blogspot since the domain expired long ago. Maybe supertectonics labs will once again begin declassifying information and taking questions.

A few Mac news sites are reporting that Apple is offering blogging as a new feature on .Mac accounts. But Lifli Software, makers of iBlog have been around for years. Whatevah.

To Boldy Steep: "I've always loved tea, and recently I decided to become serious about it. It's fascinating stuff; hundreds of varieties, all from the same plant, and all so different. I've ordered a bunch of samples from uptontea.com, and am discovering just what sort of drinker I am."

Until Doteasy.com tells me why Blogger can no longer publish to Bizstone.com, I'm having my URL redirected to this blogspot account. Effing Doteasy!

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Space Art in Children's books 1950's to 1970's. I love this.

Blogging at TeacherHosting.com: "Host a blog to share your thoughts and opinions with other teachers around the world. Create blogs for each of your students for use posting their schoolwork, or start a community for subject matter experts to interact with your students."

What's it like to be an intern at Disney? Moblog will tell you. (via shellen)

What Else Was Lost in Translation? Nice! Now I know this going in and I can chuckle to myself pretending I understand Japanese as I drain the rest of my two liter cup of diet coke.

Blogger Forum: Blogger users helping each other. This is fantastic.

Google Personals - Coming Soon? This enlightening article features a modified Google logo that I created a while back. I don't assume that my image inspired the article, but it does remind me how important it is to have access to Photoshop, fonts, and other graphics software when it comes to kick-starting ideas and concepts. Photoshop rocks Natick.

Frownland » Archive » Blogs and Dogs Nice! A potential list of titles for my new book. Actually, the title now is a working title that my editor chose based on one of the chapters in my preliminary outline. I think it's best to title the book after most of it is written.

Hurricane Blog is a compilation of "live from the scene" Isabel reports.

This is my contract! It’s official: I am writing a second book about blogging. It will be in stores “throughout the world” sometime in 2004. This next book won’t be in the tech section of Barnes because it’s a trade paperback with NYC based St. Martin's Press. I still suggest (and use) my first blogging book, and I hope to update it one day (eh-hem). Nevertheless, my new book is tentatively titled Who Let the Blogs Out? and is more about... well we’ll see. I really don’t know what I’m going to do, say, or write from one minute to the next. It's a different audience, one that I am happy to reach. I’m really excited about this new project. I continue to be obsessed involved with blogging four years later. Amazing.

THE POOL HOUSE is the official blog of FOX's The O.C. Nice! We will see a lot more entertainment blogs in the near future. I love that this blog is hosted on blogspot too. (via being jennifer garrett)

8 Simple Rules to Live On as a “SitDram”: "Future episodes will take viewers into the Hennessy household as they experience the loss of a father ... We will not be recasting John. We will play out the situation as real life." I loved this show with John Ritter. If they really do continue without him, I predict that this will be the first popular “SitDram.” A whole new genre of half hour programming.

Jen and I took over the first part of Carlos' class today. As far as I know, Professor Ramos is the first professor to require that his students blog. They will be given "blogging assignments" and they will be graded. Very cool.

If Google AdSense offered an ad layout of 150x60, it would be great for bloggers (for me!) and it would be especially great for some blog services. If every little pop-up comments box carried a Google ad, services like Haloscan, YACCS, and Blogspeak could cover costs. Speaking of AdSense, they could offer an RSS version too: some code you add to your template so the ads only show up as text and links in your published feed.

BlogPulse is "automated trend discovery for weblogs." A new and sophisticated window on the blogosphere.

Joi Ito: Ordering of letters don't matter:

"Aoccdrnig to rscheearch at an Elingsh uinervtisy, it deosn't mttaer in waht oredr the ltteers in a wrod are, olny taht the frist and lsat ltteres are at the rghit pcleas. The rset can be a toatl mses and you can sitll raed it wouthit a porbelm. Tihs is bcuseae we do not raed ervey lteter by ilstef, but the wrod as a wlohe."

Weird and cool.

Every other midnight the Starbucks Muffin Men deliver their shipment of baked goods to the ‘bucks. This all happens across the street from my apartment and the lousy mugs idle their loud truck. Nevertheless, I have become accustomed to the disturbance. But the other night I heard a new noise: CRACK! They backed into a streetlamp. Bent that sucker at a thirty degree angle. By lunchtime, the authorities had removed the lamp. Its like the time I was walking to the college early one morning and saw “sweatshop” graffiti sprayed across the GAP—gone by lunch. Strangeville.

Call him drunken Ira Hayes. Great times.

There's a Xanga review at WebUser. Also, Xanga makes a new partner.

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Thirdblog.com is your friendly neighborhood hosted cms. Or will be.

Christopher Lydon Interviews+CafePress Audio CDs=Good stuff.

My last post was 377 characters. My RSS reader is set to 255 characters. Maybe 255 is a new blog standard? The point at which post becomes essay? Seems limiting but if people are going to read many blogs a day on iPods and cell phones, maybe it's a good standard. Kind of like that old web safe color palette.

Now that hundreds of thousands of bloggers have been upgraded to Pro, its time to start thinking about cool new projects. How about something that works with BlogSend (posts forwarded to an email address)? What if everyone entered the same email address in their BlogSend field? Seems like you could effect some kind of social change or sway some local government. All you need is a cause, and email address, and a few thousand bloggers on a 24 hour spree.

Let them have Pro. Now everyone is going to be a Blogger Pro. Nice! Update: Official announcement.

I am currently hosting a month long email discussion about blogging for the American Marketing Association. Scrabblog will be posted tonight. Great example.

Dilberito from Scott Adams Foods. Vegan food products from the creator of Dilbert. Nice.

I've got all the Christopher Lydon Interviews on my iPod as of tonight thanks to Dave. I'm listening to "weinberger1" right now. These recordings are historic. When Ken Burns' grandson produces a documentary on the true democratization of the Web and how blogging launched a second renaissance, these recordings will be prominent. Good stuff Chris.

The email feedback I got about my book tonight totally rocked Natick:

To: biz@bizstone.com
Subject: your book = da shit

Thanks for the book. I have been tweaking my blog for a few months, I think I got it all set up. I bought your Blogging book and the one from the company with the animals on the cover. (What's with that? Gr Animals for the tech world?) Anyway the other book sits and yours is all tore up with notes in the margins etc. Thanks again.
http://www.bigrick.fm/blog/blog1.html

Big Rick Stuart
KFOG FM San Francisco
listen online http://www.kfog.com
KITS,KNAC,KQAK,KUSF
http://www.bigrick.FM

Thanks Rick!

X1 searches files and email on your hard drive. I wish Google offered a hard drive search. I think I've wished aloud about Google as an OS before, but I would settle for just searching my Mac as a first step.

It would be so cool if I could sync all my RSS feeds up with my iPod but instead of reading them, my iPod would read them aloud to me in one of the 26 different Macintosh voices. That would rock for my commute (a fifteen minute walk across the Wellesley Campus).

Oh man. I am going to get obsessed with RSS now. I blame Eric and Charles. With Eric more to blame because he actually gave me step-by-step instructions on how easy it was and made it very clear that I was obviously slacking.

At the urging of fellow bloggers I have finally accomplished the amazingly complex task of making available an RSS feed of Biz Stone, Genius. When I say "amazingly complex" I mean clicking Settings > Site Feed > Publish RSS? > Yes! from my Blogger Pro account. At Genius Labs, no task is considered light. While I was at it, I downloaded Shrook: RSS for MacOS X so I can get in on this party. Before long, I may have staRSS in my eyes! Little visual pun for you there. Hello? Wait! Hello? Damn puns.

Effing floating car is a pint sized duck tour. It's almost "the future" dammit, where's the personal space ships and stuff? The blogosphere is a strange, non-corporial omniscient beast that lives among us but somehow in another dimension. That's kind of futuristic and cool. But still. Floating effing Mazda. C'mon!

Bloggers' Congress: "Of the bloggers, for the bloggers, and by the bloggers." Nice!

Traffic Zoology: "Watch the roads, and see the zoo for yourself. There is no denying its patterns of insectile purpose, its myriad variations in anatomy and configuration, or the orchestrated madness of the low-cost petroleum feeding frenzy. Your own mind, honed by thousands of generations of natural selection to recognise life from non-life, will tell you it is true; the disciplines of careful observation and meticulous classification will tell you how, and why."

PhoneBlogger. Cool. Thanks Steve.

United States Patent: 6,615,226: "A method and system for placing an order to purchase an item via the Internet."

Jen Garrett and I are kicking Blogging at Wellesley into high gear in the next two weeks. We're setting up Professor Ramos' class with blogs, comments, blogrolls, the works. And Carlos is making the blog a big percent of the grade. Yikes! This is great though. We're gonna learn a lot about using blogging in the classroom.

Is there a way to hack the IndyJunior Flash Mapping Module so that it doesn't read "past" or "future" before the locations? Anyone know?