I always envied Stewart's subtitle I AM SHARING THIS WITH YOU, it perfectly captures the essence of blogging. Now that Anil has stolen it, I can too. I've been real sick the last week, bedridden. So all I have today are links, but it's still good blogging.
- Stewart's sharing energies are probably directed internally at Yahoo! now (I'm guessing, not knowing). Apparently Mena's are too. Somewhere there is a spreadsheet that reads RSS, and it is tracking the number of days since Mena and Stewart have updated their company blogs (Flickr phone "snaps" don't count). The X-axis "days since blog updated and the Y-axis is "total awesomeness of Flickr 2.0 and Typepad 2.0". The Y-axis (in this spreadsheet of the mind) is growing higher and higher, as Mena & Stewart's respective companies absorb the wonderful creative energies that we are being deprived of.
- Caterina's "blathering" response to the "Yahoo! throws in the towel" meme is wonderful. Who else can shame the CFO of one of the biggest web brands in the world in a post, and then go on to school her audience on Simpsons trivia in the comments? That's good blogging.
- Last Tuesday I handed over the reins of the Eyebeam reblog to Mr. Evan Roth. You can view my author archive going forward if you ever want to revisit those posts. I really had a tremendous time. Blog readers fall into habits very quickly, and reading much more news from a wider diversity of authors was exciting and eye opening. "Watch this space" for more reblog news, and thanks again, Michael, for the opportunity and kind words.
- OGLE is Eyebeam's latest software release. It captures 3-D data from software like video games and Google Earth which can be easily imported into Maya, the Photoshop of the modeling world. I love the image of the Secondlife dragon-thing eating its way through lower Manhattan. This means we'll probably see those 2-D Google mashups working in 3-D pretty soon, and beautifully.
- Pauline Oliveros will be performing at Eyebeam January 26 (tonight).
- I have an idea for the Contagious Media contest. It's "play"ful. There's a 5% chance I will actually have the time to implement it. Now that I've blogged it, 7%. It's mobile! 8%. 8%. You'll need some major luck on the 5d5 to see this happen.
- On Brain Training is the next Electroplankton. It looks to be yet another DS game that threatens the very definition of what a "video game" is. I do have to say that some of those exercises look a little menial. Wario Ware and Puzzle League were also groundbreaking games that challenged people to think in different directions and at different paces, and I think that's just as important as remedial math and shape transformation. Still, my hopes are high.
- Loyal readers get an awesome reward for reading this far! Chaka Kha playing the drums, 1976. From J. Smooth's exceptional "best of youtube" blog, tuberaider. Kenyatta - add this to the unmediated reblog feed list!
- It's pretty geeky to be reading Google's "Web Authoring Statistics" at this hour, or at all. I plead the fifth. But "Of the top twenty most-used attributes on body, fourteen are purely presentational." That's depressing.
- Adriaan's Kung-Fu is still strong. His web service "Info balloons" how-to is clearly written and immediately useful to anyone with a weblog and a
Delicious,Flickr,Upcoming, yahoo! web service account. The thing about all of the amazing javascript hacks coming out nowadays - it's always done in, like, 12 lines of code.
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