Tuesday, August 05, 2003

David has also compiled a power curve for incomes in the US.  Very well done.  That skinny red line on the left and and the bottom are the plots.  BTW:  That vertical line to the far left is Bush's core constituency.  A group that is willing to sacrifice the fiscal stability of the whole for accelerated personal wealth in the short term.  The Ken Lays and Bernie Ebbers of the world that are, as of this writing, still accumulating income unmolested. 11:57:27 PM    Comment_ Trackback []

David Pollard over at Salonblogs has built some nice K-Logs demos.  Here is a large jpg (view full screen to read the labels) of the elements that go into the display of a K-Log.   Here is a mock-up of an employee K-Log.  11:21:04 PM    Comment_ Trackback []

The-Numbers.com  A site jammed packed with financial stats on movies.  Great for trading on the Hollywood Stock Exchange (HSX).  The success of  HSX implies that Blogshares will have a long life. 4:15:46 PM    Comment_ Trackback []

The New Yorker.  "Now there are more than thirteen hundred talk stations, the vast majority of which are relentlessly right-wing."  Will weblogs become an extension of this but on a much larger scale?  Adam Curry talks about weblogging being akin to running your own radio station.  He thinks music.  I think talk radio. 4:06:48 PM    Comment_ Trackback []

O'Reilly.  Mark Finnern on side comments made at the AlwaysOn Summit. 2:35:33 PM    Comment_ Trackback []

I really like the way Persianblog.com has taken off.  There are lots of Farsi weblogs out there now and they are very active (I don't mind the @persianblog.com element they added to the weblogs.com ping). 1:01:42 PM    Comment_ Trackback []

Marshall Brain riffs on Asimov's vision in "Robotic Nation."  Here's a Wired article inspired by the Slashdot post on the topic.  Service industry automation is the Holy Grail of Moore's Law generated productivity enhancement.  Once service industries fall under Moore's Law, the rapid inflation we see in the sector (which isn't improving productivity and must raise salaries to retain workers from joining industries that are going through rapid productivity increases -- for example, the PC industry increased productivity ~66% last year) will slow, stall, and reverse.  Every inch we climb up the exponential curve of technological improvement will yield productivity improvements and price deflation (not asset deflation which is the bad form) across the economy.  Will it happen?  I wouldn't bet against it over the long term. 12:33:29 PM    Comment_ Trackback []

Newsgator 1.3 (an RSS news aggregator) is out.  Nice Microsoft Outlook integration and support for newsgroups (an area of declining interest).  It does require that you download .Net (20 Mb). I suspect the next step with Newsgator is to add publishing to a weblog via e-mail (Manila, Blogger, and MT).  Despite what people say about MS Word, the primary text editor people use is their e-mail system.  Given the direction of Newsgator, e-mail posting to weblogs is a natural evolution of the product. 12:15:13 PM    Comment_ Trackback []

Three things I would want next for Radio (I am independent from UserLand but I use Radio as my publishing platform): Wiki publishing (Paolo agrees). Photo album creation and publishing. Modular templates.  This would allow me to select a module from a list (a second blogroll, a subscription list, a photo of the day, IM contact info, etc.), configure its use, select the side of the weblog it will appear on (depending on the template), order the module among the selected modules, and publish it.  9:59:11 AM    Comment_ Trackback []

Dann Sheridan.  Pleading for Storage Weblogs. 9:47:07 AM    Comment_ Trackback []

Newsweek.  Pros and Cons of Dean.   Good baseline coverage.  My question:  Can Dean provide us with the confidence in the future that Clinton manufactured with ease?  That confidence is essential for economic advancement in the face of rapid technological change.  Without it, people don't invest in the future and out economy stagnates.  Why?  The uncertainty and risk associated with rapid change is too great to overcome without it.  This restoration of confidence is the key to victory in the fall of 2004 and 2008. 9:44:37 AM    Comment_ Trackback []