i’m at BloggingWorks which is put on by the fine folks at coudal partners and 37signals. right now, jason from 37signals and jim coudal are tag teaming on their presentation. i have to say, they are running through a load of business-related blogs that i didn’t know existed.

anil is here representing
typepad [ with brenna from typepad, but i don’t have an url for her ].

how’d i sneak in the door? facefive is providing wireless. we worked with jason and jim to provide a tasteful splashpage that wireless users will see when they access the network.

congratulation are in order for dave sifry.
technorati passed the “million weblogs watched milestone” recently. amazingly, dave claims that, “… a new weblog is being created approximately every 12 seconds.”

mailbucket

is an interesting attempt at “crossing communication-mode
boundaries” as

jon udell so aptly put it

. jon also did a nice job of pointing out the primary flaws in the
current incarnation – namely the lack of any way to limit the
ability to spam a “topic”. i suppose one could quickly put
together a system that limits posts to subscribers of a particular
topic. and i guess it wouldn’t be too long before you found
yourself reinventing a mailling list manager.

looking through the

mailbucket technorati linkage

i discovered that
chris is
ruminating

connecting
mailbucket

with
era

, which monitors rss feeds and then emails you any changes. how
long before some wiseacre sets
era

to monitor and email a
mailbucket

topic on changes to that topic, thusly initiating an endless loop
of emailing madness.

not that i would do anything like that.

despite my best attempts to avoid any “action shots” during my quest to live through my first marathon, i discovered recently that i forgot that i allowed a family friend to shoot an amusing photo of me around mile 18.

your guess is as good as mine as to what i’m trying to accomplish with that pose. perhaps i was influenced by the strange power that a terry cloth headband can have over your better sense of judgement. hi. ho. i look a lot more happy than i did around mile 24.

the firebird 0.7 release candidate is
available for your downloading pleasure. if i’m not mistaken, the about:mozilla page has been updated:

“And so at last the beast fell and the unbelievers rejoiced. But all was not lost, for from the ash rose a great bird. The bird gazed down upon the unbelievers and cast fire and thunder upon them. For the beast had been reborn with its strength renewed, and the followers of Mammon cowered in horror.

from The Book of Mozilla, 7:15 ”

update: jeez. thunderbird 0.3 release candidate 2 is also
available.

while
glenn reynolds

is
suspicious
of the “revenge” motive for the plame/wilson story passing the
smell test

:

“First, if you want to “intimidate” someone, committing
a felony at which you can be caught — and which doesn’t hurt the
target — doesn’t seem to be the way to do it. What possible
benefit was there to the Bush Administration in saying that Valerie
Plame worked for the CIA?”

rafe colburn

reminds us that
revenge was
not what was being served

:

“The purpose was not to discredit Wilson nor was it
revenge against him, rather it was a way of substantiating White
House claims that they hadn’t seen Wilson’s report.”

i can’t tell if this is some sort of elaborate spam, but i just received and email from the seller of a purported
method of human cloning for sale on ebay that’s already bidding for over $87,000:

“This method is novel and original, and I will turn over all claims on it, including my share of the Nobel Prize, to the highest bidder.
The main improvement over current methods is that in this case, genes turned off (or on) in the somatic cell which should be turned on (or off) in the zygote will be corrected by specialized extranuclear RNA in the gametes, reducing the incidence and severity of defects in the clone.”

as enticing as it sounds, i think i’ll have to sit out this round of bidding.