I would have called you crazy if you told me I’d miss Amanda. But I do.  I hope she’s back on the tiny screen soon. Meanwhile, if you’re just jonesing for that lip gloss like I am, here she is on the RichardShow.

Richard Bennett offers his assessment of Net Neutrality advocates as members of a cargo cult led by those charismatic Davids, Weinberger and Isenberg.  Since meeting DW for the first time in 2024 and DI a year or so later, I’ve sat at their feet, signed over the farm to them, gone on a pilgrimage to Haight Ashbury and I have to admit that I am no closer to understanding why the Telco monopolists should be allowed to operate as if this were a free market than I was before I met them and still believed in QoS as the mystical method by which streaming traffic would ride in the fast lane while print jobs and FTP transfers would be shuttled off to a siding so the video could go through!

I was raised in the church of switched voice, paid homage to the gods of scarcity, mumbled prayerfully regarding the avoidance of contention on the thin copper strands.  However the gurus David have shaken my faith in QoS as a meaningful concept in a network with abundant bandwidth.  BigCo, the corporate outfit that buys a chunk of VPN throughput sweetly parsed via MPLS may be interested in chopping up its traffic using a QoS model, but us hippies just want access to a big pipe that’s always on and the stinking telcos can just get out of the way.

End to end…

Sgt. Pepper…

Amanda’s Last Boom

I think this is important.  I’ll be interested to see what the Happy Tutor has to say about it.

One of Soros’ most interesting points in the top level presentation relates to markets.  “You can’t leave everything to markets,” he says.  Markets are very good at allocating resources among competing private needs, but they do not address common needs.

Ms. Congdon has four “extra interview clips” augmenting her daily RocketBoom presentation. I’m heading back there to check them out.

Amanda and ze Frank remind me of Josh and Donna.   First they go on like that for years and years, all that tension and everything, then she gets a great job in advertising, and he still does the same old creative stuff, but in the end where do they end up?  On some beach.  Naked.

Dave Winer wishes they wouldn’t cancel the West Wing.  I think if we did the Peter Pan “do you believe in fairies” thing we could restore the show’s light.  Do you believe?  Well do ya punk, do ya believe in fairies?  Hunh? Do ya? Do ya?  And speaking of fun couples, well there’s me and Richard Bennett, slow dancing, and I blame that all on Doc; but, also in family court today, there came a final parting of the ways.  Control/Alt/Delete dudes.

And Happy 51 Dave!  They named a highway after your age.

At this time of year, I like to watch the birdies fighting. They fluff their feathers at each other and then comes the squawking and close-in pushing and pulling and then, and then… well not much happens then, but all that feather ruffling and pushing and pulling is quite exciting for me. I like to watch it.

Today I was gratified by that same push and pull in the vLoggerverse… Amanda and ze sitting in a tray, k-i-s-s-i-n-jay… you know?

Sure, they both look good in a pink sweater, but what else do ze Frank (the show) and Amanda Congdon (Rocketboom) have in common? My assignment was to compare and contrast two of the current crop of America’s favorite vLoggers. Okay… I picked a poor day to compare and contrast. Amanda’s hair was great. ze Frank’s was not.

Content:

ze: world of warcraft, bush, sliding, polls, tony snow, power move, logo, immigration, poop

A: interactive north america gas price map, the all terrain wheelchair, black light tattoo, evil genius chronicles and amigo fish, sheep as billboards, walmart

Maybe tomorrow there will be something to compare. Today’s winner… ze Frank. Totally. Rocketboom was totally neither boing boing nor engadget. the show was totally… the show!