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Friday, June 23, 2006

Ze Amanda on Net Neutrality

by Frank Paynter on June 23, 2006

Amanda Congdon has a bright, simple, persuasive vlog on Net Neutrality today.  She includes links to Net Neutrality sites to make it easy for you to write your congress-critter.  So go there. Enjoy Amanda’s presentation, her excellent lip gloss, her – you know – “production values.”  Then write those congress-critters!

(Amanda’s vlog beats the heck out of information like this upbeat mainstream media number on how to profit from diabetes.  But, while perhaps more acceptable in a mainstream context, more socially aware, less offensive than a dead tree publication shilling for big pharmcos, she still ain’t as fucking funny as ze Frank, and that’s the truth, strange rangers.  But my god, what a compliment to be compared to him all the time!)

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Emotional Life Blogging

by Frank Paynter on June 23, 2006

Chris Pirillo is discussing living his life publically online.  Terry Heaton discussed the loss of his wife.  Lisa talked about the loss of her father, and everyone is being open about the challenges of public inspection versus the support of the community.  I think Tamar would have a lot to offer the group in this session.

People are sharing all these personal stories and I’m thinking about all the people I don’t write about out of concern for what effect my thoughts might have on my relationships.  Thinking about my dad, my brother… there’s so much to explore there, but I’m not going to explore it in the blog.  Lisa says that when she moved from paper to pixels the volume of her complaints went down.

Jory says that her blog has helped her clean up her relationships… these are incredibly MINDFUL people, mindful like Tamar, like Ronni, like Liz Ditz.  Jay Rosen says that blgging is emotional, it’s about freedom… he calls blogs “the little first amendment machines.”

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Lisa Williams said “frisson”

June 23, 2006

Lisa’s boyfriend violated her privacy by reading her diary and leaving comments.
                 

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Back-up

June 23, 2006

Back at BloggerCon after an interesting morning in Judge Walker’s court. More about that later and AT&T, and the US Government… is Joho really working for AT&T? I love him anyway. More aqbout that – as I said – later.
Right now there’s a heated discussion about backing up our images before [...]

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Zap your PRAM

June 23, 2006

another conference….  thanks to the IRC channel for the nudge.
Marc Canter is now filling this corner of the room, btw.  All these super heroes of the first wave.
                 

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Technography

June 23, 2006

Doc is at the front table writing up notes that are projected on the screen.  It’s an OPML outliner kind of thing.
Jory des Jardins is the microphone person.
Phil Torrone will be talking tools in just a bit, after we sort out the singing thing.
Anil Dash is here… Dan Farber, Chris and Ponzi…
Song suggestion… Bruggeman suggests [...]

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Cranking up the con

June 23, 2006

Luminaries in the room…. the laughingsquid, jay rosen, dave, doc, terry heaton, rex hammock, marnie webb, bruce bruggeman… the room is filling up and McD is on the IRC link.
Sylvia Paul – I think Britt Bravo just wlked in – the room is slowly filling up and there is nice music . Dave is calling [...]

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Hepting versus AT&T

June 23, 2006

James Bond’s old nemesis SMERSH (from shmert shpionam, or “death to spies”) may file a brief today on behalf of the ironically Stalinist US Government in Courtroom 6 at 450 Golden Gate Avenue at the 9:30a.m. hearing on the Hepting vs. AT&T suit. Or they may not. How would we know, since the [...]

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