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email delivery Read Weblogsky via email:itinerary EFF-Austin Cyberdawg Social, November 2003. Austin: Wireless Future, ongoing project / meetings; conference (March 12-16) SXSW Interactive, Austin (March 12-16) Polycot Polycot helps organizations determine how to build and use effective web technologies to solve problems, build loyalty, share knowledge, and organize projects. For more information, email consult at weblogsky.com, or check out the Polycot Consulting web site. projects CEO, Polycot Consulting. Polycot is a network services company: network consulting, installation and administration, as well as web solutions (architecture and development). Member of the blog team at Another World (worldchanging.com) Co-Founder of the Austin Wireless City Project Manager of the Wireless Future Project for IC² Institute Associated with Rheingold and Associates, Online Social Networking Moderator and co-administrator at the Dean Issues Forum Writer of various interviews, reviews, essays, and articles. President of EFF-Austin Member, Board of Directors, Austin Freenet Local advisor for South by Southwest Interactive Steering Committee Member and Webmaster, Austin Clean Energy Initiative Member of the blog team for Howard Rheingold's Smart Mobs weblog. Cohost of The WELL's Inkwell.vue, discussions and interviews. Webmaestro for Viridian Design Co-instigator of Austin Bloggers Member of Mindjack's Board of Advisors. links worth traveling weblogsky archives Email jonl at weblogsky.com 
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Saturday, June 30, 2001
I was interviewed once by R.U. Sirius, and on revisiting that discussion I found this bit of prophecy: Paradoxically, I've done some consultancy on the business uses of the World Wide Web, since I seem to have developed some expertise in that area, and that brings up another important aspect of the "boom" phenomenon, which is its vulnerability to collapse. There's been quite a rush to develop companies to provide various Internet services: connectivity, Web servers, html encoding and Web design, etc., as individuals and corporations rush to develop an online presence. One of the points I make when I'm doing consultancy is that it's hard to assess the commercial impact of the medium at this point in its development, before the fever breaks.... We still don't know, for instance, how effective online presence will be as advertising, or how well "online storefronts" will work. We don't know how well the public's fascination with the Internet will hold, once the novelty's worn off. And there [are] other strange attractors. I wouldn't, for instance, want to be an Internet service provider right now, because the day may come when the phone companies will blow those guys right out of the water.Yikes! Don't remember saying that, shoulda paid more attention to my own ramblings...! Friday, June 29, 2001 Declan McCullagh: How Thomas Penfield Jackson screwed the pooch. "Thomas Penfield Jackson is not merely a federal judge with a soft spot for government prosecutors and an undisguised contempt for Microsoft executives. "He's also a media blabbermouth, whose private chats with reporters wound up costing the Justice Department its biggest victory in a generation." Travel! Drove sixteen hours from Boulder, CO to Austin, TX yesterday... I've made this drive several times following different routes, each one a little different. Whole different landscapes and cultures whiz by. We're all so connected via computers and television and fast food chains, we lose (at least I lost, for a while) our grasp of America's diversity. I find myself wanting to ditch the house and take to the roads, live nomadic in a tent or RV. (With improved wireless 'net access I might just do it). Monday, June 25, 2001 Net Authority proves that Rudis Muiznieks has too much time on his hands! Took us a while to get the joke.... So Pharoah said "Go fly a kite!" Next thing ya know... Saturday, June 23, 2001 Completing a website revision... new architecture. Hope you found your way back to the weblog! Wednesday, June 20, 2001 Da Vaughn Bode Site A collection of the late, great Vaughn Bode's work! (Thanks, boingers!) Even better, you can buy Vaughn Bode model kits. (If you don't know who Vaughn Bode is, click here. Refresh Art Project The refresh that pauses! Join the refresh ring... or select a link and take a ride! Theory action figures Be the first kid on your block to own the Giddens and Foucault action figures! "A must for serious collectors and theory-loving kids alike." Wednesday, June 13, 2001 Netmogul: "The step-by-step guide to your startup millions! .... True, gone are the days when dropping '.com' after a random grab of Scrabble tiles leaves you counting your millions in 'stock options' after the all-but-inevitable "IPO." But there's no telling what a well-placed "wireless," "broadband," or 'You can't sell a buck for 95 cents and call it a business!' might land you. Supercaliphuckingexpialidocious!" Friday, June 08, 2001 RIP FeedFeed chisels its own epitaph. Some are asking if this signals the death of web culture, but that concern is probably premature. What's clear, though, is that it's the cryogenic freezing (possibly not the death???) of a terrific culture zine...Janelle Brown in Salon: The music revolution will not be digitized: "The dust is clearing from the online entertainment wars. Who won? The record labels. Who lost? Consumers." Another telling piece, from the L.A. Weekly: Independent Music's Right to Fight: Jiga sent one final e-mail, on June 4: "I am a little person," she wrote. "I am a musician. I'm not a lawyer, or a professional industry person. I know very well how to operate synths; I know how to rock the house in raves. I can take a cello connected to flanger-distortion and play weird melodies on a fat beat.(Thanks to David Hudson for the pointers via the rewired email list. Suck.com takes a summer vacation! Whether the sucksters wander back again is moot; even a respite marks the end of the adrenaline era! Thursday, June 07, 2001 Slashdot reports on EFF's anti-DMCA (Digital Millennium Copyright Act) in behalf of Ed Felten et al. Wednesday, June 06, 2001 Donna Higbee on Human Spontaneous Invisibility. (Thanks to memepool!) Monday, June 04, 2001 Weblogs: A New Source of News. Not bad, though his contention that the first weblog was Dave Winer's in '97 is questionable. (We were blogging at FringeWare as early as '94, and we weren't the only ones.) But the point isn't where the practice started. Other J.D. Lasica considers the probability that weblogs will supplement traditional news sources. Sounds like the Internet to me! Ian Buruma on Pearl Harbor (the movie). "...apart from the bang-bang, which, I repeat, is seriously good bang-bang, there is nothing but cheesy melodrama and a lot of sugary, unashamed American patriotism." Well, heck, Ian: the bang-bang is what film's all about, no? Friday, June 01, 2001 Along Came George W by John Shirley...
Reminds us of... Okay, we left town for a while and connectivity was spotty, so the site's been without juice. We took a long road trip from Boulder, where it's cool and dry, to Austin, where it's hot and wet, and that was a welcome change for yours truly, though several people questioned my sanity when I said I really like the humidity down in the Texas tropics. Guess I figured there was enough to gripe about, what with the gloss black beetles splattering yolk-yellow on the windshield and the spooky Texas thunderstorms sneaking in and the ugly traffic situation in Austin, unmitigated so far by the massive layoffs in the tech industry there. (Those of us who are practicing the layoff mantra will find little help in the Austin of the moment; I think they're passing a blacklist of known dotcommunists around.) But to me it's great to feel the hot air hanging on your body, feel the sweat forming, then dive into the cold waters of Deep Eddy or Barton Springs and emerge ready to drink Tecate and lime...  |
interviews Interview with David Weinberger for SXSW Interactive Conference's Tech Report Discussion with Bruce Sterling at The WELL, January 3 - 17, 2003. Jon L. interview for South by Southwest Interactive conference's Tech Report. Jon L. interviewed by Adam Powell (5/13/2002) jonl interviewed by R. U. Sirius (A version of this interview appeared in The Austin Chronicle) Conversation with Bruce Sterling at the WELL's Inkwell.vue Forum Interview with R.U. Sirius at CTHEORY interview conducted by Yoshihiro Kaneda in conjunction with the publication in Japan, in the book CyberRevolution, the essay "Inforeal." interview with Allucquere Rosanne Stone. No Stone Untenured: May '98 Interview with Sandy Stone Bruce Sterling interview for bOING bOING #9 The Tedium is the Message, Assholes: Interview (for AltX) with R.U. Sirius and St. Jude Don't Believe the Hype (Austin Digerati Roundtable published January 28) Why We Listen to What They Say: Interview with Doug Rushkoff Interviews with Projecting the 21st Century: An Interview with Gary Chapman Information Junkie, an interview with Reva Basch (Researching Online for Dummies) Wired to Virtual Reality: Interview with Howard Rheingold Interview with Carla Sinclair, author of Signal to Noise Making Movies on Cyber Location: an interview with director Doug Block (Austin Chronicle, February 1998) Untangling the Web: interview with Gene Crick of MAIN and Sue Beckwith of Austin Freenet reviews Review of Paulina Borsook's Cyberselfish, in Whole Earth Magazine. review in HotWired of David Foster Wallace's Infinite Jest. Cyber Top Ten for 1997 (Austin Chronicle, December 1997) essays
What Happened to the Cyber Revolution? A Few Points about Online Activism in the March '99 issue of the UK journal Cybersociology ZapSpace, published as A Fistful of DOS in the Australian magazine 21C The Cyborganic Path from the April '97 issue of CMC Magazine Essay: Are We a Nation? We Are Devo in The Ethical Spectacle. articles Little Nemo in Slumberland (bOING bOING, February 1998) Technopolitics, a 1997 essay on cyberactivism originally appearing in the Australian magazine 21C. Your 15 Minutes Are Up, Mr. Gates!1998 Top Nine List from the Austin Chronicle! Dungeons and Draggin's: a look at the Ultima Online phenomenon "We Do Cool Things": a profile of Austin's George Sanger, aka The Fatman, and Team Fat The Opera Ain't Over 'til the Cyber Lady Sings: Honoria in Ciberspazio (Austin Chronicle, November 1997) Shout Spamalam! The Austin Spam Suit Who Are You? Who Owns You? A consideration of Amazon's privacy policy. Amicus Brief filed with Supreme Court regarding the "Communications Decency Act" 11.25.96 Freewheelin' in Austin 1.7.97 Cyberdawgs and CyberRights: EFF-Austin 2.25.97 VR in 3Space: Brian Park 1.28.97 Going Native in Cyberspace: Bob Anderson 3.25.97 A Parisian Spring in Austin: Joseph Rowe and Catherine Braslavsky 4.22.97 On a Rock and Roll Firetruck: Shawn Phillips  |
