Monthly Archives: December 2007

Open the Pod Bay Door HAL

By Frank Paynter | Published: December 28, 2007

I can’t do that, Dave. Why do I miss all the transformative moments in Web technology? (I ask because I’m sure you had to be there…). [tags]parking in goofy, the long hike in from left field[/tags]

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Musharraf opponent assassinated…

By Frank Paynter | Published: December 27, 2007

On BBC… “What could he have done? He could have arrested suspected terrorists instead of civil liberties activists.” Bhutto was a threat to extremists on both sides. She would have mobilized a moderate center if she were to have been elected next month. Dina Mehta twittering from India… – Musharraf says political parties should be [...]

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Benazir Bhutto

By Frank Paynter | Published: December 27, 2007

(Xinhua/Reuters photo) Meanwhile, back at the ranch… [tags]didn’t anyone read 1984, makes the january elections almost moot, kissinger ties up loose ends, the medellin cartel could learn a few things from that boy[/tags]

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Tempe twitterology, where the tweeters meet

By Frank Paynter | Published: December 26, 2007

Ran across this meet-up, which heralds a great step forward in the online world of twittering. The locative nature of community will be reinforced by the party in Tempe on January 12. I wonder how many of these folks will be meeting each other for the first time? [tags]tempe, twitter, uptown toodleoo[/tags]

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Facebook and Twitter

By Frank Paynter | Published: December 26, 2007

I’m a blogger, and on some modest level a web publisher, a designer.   I have mixed feelings about both Facebook and twitter.  I think that they are places to gather clues about current affairs, but they have a tendency to attract advocates like iron filings to a magnet, and I’m not all that convinced that [...]

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Howard Rheingold on Facebook Friends as “a public”

By Frank Paynter | Published: December 25, 2007

I just never felt right about refusing friendship to a stranger who claims to have been influenced by my publications. Although for the first year or two my Facebook “social graph” mapped in some not terribly accurate way with personal relationships that I maintained on a face to face basis — or, if virtually, over [...]

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Merry Christmas

By Frank Paynter | Published: December 24, 2007

Shelley has a wonderful prose picture of a Christmas time in Vermont. Brian links to memories of Oscar Peterson. Jesse displays tasteful toys suitable for any gift giving occasion. Judith shares a joyous wish. From Tamarika, hummingbird joy! JR’s granddaughter reminds us that, “You have to be very good and go to bed early or [...]

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Scripting News Blogger of the Year

By Frank Paynter | Published: December 24, 2007

Dave Winer had a Blogger of the Year contest in 2001 and got so much negative push-back that he dropped the idea after that. Too bad. We need more places where people get positive strokes. This year he’s renewed the idea. Dave’s pick for Blogger of the Year — 2007 is Naked Jen. Congratulations, Jen! [...]

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