sj's Longest Now [v.1]

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All transcripts and some audio files are now out.
Status: basically formatted, not proofread. Don’t use yet for direct
quotes; word-for-word transcripts coming late Monday.  

Let me know if you see anything wrong… or have good quotes to add.

• Friday morning   | text | audio (26MB) | All manner of things, keyed off of presentations.
• Friday afternoon | text | audio | Ditto, with big media finally starting to speak out in the last third of the day.
• Friday evening    | text | audio | Weinberger’s brilliant “stand-up philosophy” on a trio of subjects
• Saturday morn   | text | audio
  (32MB) | On podcasting, and an open discussion about scenarios by Dan
  Gillmor and Jimmy Wales and (at the very end) tools.
• Saturday lunch   | text | audio |
• Saturday open session | text | audio
  (22MB) |  Final session.  Informal, moderated by Dave Winer in the
  spirit of the BloggerCon wrapups, with audience members from the
  community.  (Only 5+ people from the community came… and half of
  the invitees had to leave after the previous session, partly due to the
  incoming blizzard).
• Many short podcasts from Andy Carvin, before, during, and after the conference.

I began to say on IRC that I wasn’t going to post the last session’s
transcript right away, b/c it needed editing… couldn’t believe myself
🙂  The trouble was just that the two Dave W’s got a bit
confusing, and one or two sections were out of order.  Smoke that
in your reliability pipe… I did a quick 5-min pass
over the file to correct glaring confusions, but take the last
transcript with an extra grain of salt.

I will clean up the transcripts a bit later tonight, but they should be referencable now.  And I’d like your help:
there are a few sections of the transcripts where a speaker’s name is
unclear (for the new speakers at the open session), or where a
paper/website is referenced but not spelled out… if you can tell me
what those are, I would really appreciate it.  I’d also love to
know about early news articles on the conference… anything before
tomorrow afternoon counts.

There are some delightful new tools for wikipedaholics, though full-scale social tools are still nowhere to be seen.  Six degrees of Wikipedia is cool, and the live RC is a real joy.  What I want to see now is a Wikiclippings service that shows me all recent changes that match a certain string.  What do you want to see? 

Here I am in Palo Alto, sitting nezt to Shimon and Bruce at the
Accelerating change conference. There are about 300 people at the
conference, and we just enjoyed a rare presentation by will wright
(talking about second life, among other things)

waiting to hear
his debate with jaron lanier later today. and, of course, posting from
the ipaq… still about 40wpm, but havent migrated to touchtyping yet.

Steve Mann… Thad Starner… both long gone, off on their own personal quests.  Why don’t any of the orbiting Media-Lab advisors have any gear on them? Neither the people currently in the Wearables Lab, not even Sandy Pentland or Neal Gershenfeld, keep on them more than the universal wristwatch and maybe a set of contact lenses. SAY WHAT???

IT conversations is a lovely site full of audio interviews with the technorati  (including our very own aegrumet!), and this week focuses on the 48-hour conversion of Larry Lessig‘s new and spellbinding work, Free Culture — released under a CC license — as audio recordings made by various interested individuals.

For the discussion of who is recording which segments of the book, visit AKMA‘s afterthought on the subject (where some of the aggregated playlists of multiple chapters can be found), and the original post that started it all (where the latest list of contributors lies).  

Awesome.  Realtime commit logs, broadcast on one low-overhead channel.  A great improvement over the old CIA Mailing List Server.  I wonder how easy it is for log-browsers to filter out only those messages relating to operatives you care about…

WebWatcher for tracking site updates; thanks, Alps! And a portable Hamlet for the adventurous. Two things every digital nomad needs.

Nothing warms the heart like a last-minute pull-through.  Kerry’s victory yesterday is just what he needed to rally his troops…  what I’m more interested in, however, are Edwards’ buoyancy and Clark’s quiet coalition-building.  Edwards manages to lift my spirits… can’t quite put my finger on why, but I’m thinking about it.

happens every day.  no need to cry…

This is a very short list of bookmarks… some of them still useful; no longer linked in the sidebar.

What was with that rumour that friendster was going to start charging?  Seemed like an ugly version of viral marketing for whatever the replacement service was supposed to be.  Anyhow, I find it useful for stalking old high school classmates.  Like Josef Ro bey!