mine is jack dejohnette. he paints stories with sticks. he is the blogger of drums.
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October 03, 2006
who's your favorite living drummer?
October 02, 2006
First Comes the Conference, Next Comes the Camp, Then We're RICH!
Alright, so that's not the point at all.
And that not being the point, as they might say, is the point.
I love that the first person to happily co-opt the PhoneCon idea for her own purposes is Ronni Bennett, who I had the pleasure of guffawing with during PhoneCon 2006. Ronni immediately saw the potential of the telephone-as-backchannel-to-blogging as a way to add another layer to our online relationships as we make fun of ourselves, technology, and our world in the process.
Introducing, then, The First Annual Elderblogger-PhoneCon ‘06, invented and run by Ronni Bennett to be held later this month:
…to take place on Tuesday, 24 October. That's four weeks from today.
Now don’t get put off by those six hours I referred to. Only Jeneane, as host and referee of PhoneCom, stayed on the telephone for the duration - although she did get all her laundry folded too. The rest of us called in and dropped off as our schedules permitted throughout the conference. I stopped in for an hour or so twice.
The conference is free. The only cost is a long-distance telephone call, but any of you who are on Skype or VoIP will pay nothing extra, of course. There will be local numbers for ten European countries so non-U.S. elderbloggers can join in too.
So mark your calendars for Tuesday, 24 October, get out your party hats and stay tuned for weekly updates. I’ll be posting telephone numbers, instructions on how to call in and announcements of special features as they occur to me.
How cool is THAT? And how elder does one have to be to attend, or at least lurk, because I'm jonesing for a good talk and have some laundry that needs folding. Elaine, be there or be square. And is Frank singing?
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October 01, 2006
when live is not live anymore...
"Eras most often fade out so gradually, that they are only noticable by long hindsight. That will be most people's awareness of the loss of real, live orchestral recordings in their media." -- Peter on the closing of Paramount's Stage M.
...and the live orchestra is just the tip. the live musician is the iceberg.
makes me want the t-shirt:
i've got yer media hangin'.
I thought I saw a puddy cat
In the tradition of Web 2.0 updates, surprise feature introductions rolled across the webby web today, especially in the land of feed readers. I knew it! When I opened Bloglines today I almost posted that something smelled different. I thought the font had changed on the list of feeds--or "feed tree" as they call it--and then I noticed this little black box at the bottom announcing some kind of intermittent updating of feeds. AH HA! I said. Enhancements!
This is all well and good--still, I come from the old school where we find it unnerving to wake up and find the furniture with new upholstery and an electric toothbrush where the Oral B used to be. I like to check into the Springfield Inn during renovations. Or the Betty Ford.
I'm not sure what else Bloglines did. But the font is definitely clean and more webby.
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encounter
on the wind
your scent, expensive & designer holy,
the black mole on your forearm
wasn't there when last
i saw your sleeves rolled just so,
your knees i see are
aching still--how many steps
to go up and down in that mansion?
and yet we are as natural together
as left arm and right,
and so i
look away, avert your eyes
turn the mirror over
drive my self home in the other
direction.
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Be Well, Will, of Be the Boy
Be. Be okay.
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Dear everyone who has to leave blogging for a while because running into yourself online is just too much given whatever it is you're going through:
We understand. Please don't worry about us while you're gone. That you left us your debit card was REALLY REALLY cool. You shouldn't have, but on the other hand, you'll probably be too busy on your break to spend money, and after all, this way you can take your break knowing that we'll have enough to eat, some good porn to watch, and for once we'll be able to buy what's in our treasure box on amazon.com.
While you take a break, please also know that there is a cat with worms resting on my pillow.
The other thing is, although we will water the plants at your request, we cannot guarantee you that we won't smoke them all while you are away. You may call it old fashioned ingenuity, or you may call it boredom without your blog to read, or you may call it desperation, or you may call it vandalism, addiction, or even plant murder. But the fact is, you're not posting right now, so what you call it doesn't matter to us. No linky, no mattery.
Also, know that we are thinking about you while you are on your blogging break--for like two seconds. And we will think about you again when your feed gets bolded in bloglines because you've returned to blogging. So there you have it: We will think about you twice while you are away. That should be enough to sustain you. Hell, it's more than your great aunt Myrtle has thought about you in 22 years.
SO shut down your browser, take your break, and take heart in knowing that the net isn't going anywhere without you.
Fact is, it wasn't so much going anywhere with you.
Although it's much more fun sitting here in front of these plastic keys knowing that you're there.
Tidings,
Your Fellow Bloggers.
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oh how i remember...
dance to it, baby.
remembering the waxy.org remix contest.
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half way to 18.
My baby turned 9 yesterday--that's where I've been.
Not every kid shares Buddy Rich's birthday.
Or his mood swings. Or his uncanny time.
You know me. An emotional amusement park sometimes. My kid. 9. So that's where I've been.
Between having a half-grown child and rescuing a stray puppy from the highway (and then having to give it back to the less than scrupulous owners), then re-inheriting two cats from our newly married neighbor who is moving back in with his ex-now-current wife--and did I mention I have re-decorated the hamster cages in pink and blue bedding, pink for mom and blue for the boys?)--life has been a river, not of news, but of heartbeats.
New life, old life, life moving.
At the speed of me.
At the YMCA a few days ago a woman had her newborn baby with her--precious tiny baby girl in pink. I said to her, "She is so beautiful," and then ducked behind the drape of the changing room to cry quietly.
Every now and then I remember that the ablation I had means I can't carry anymore babies. In my mind fact that we weren't going to have any more babies is completely unrelated to the fact that I can't.Part 1 does not lessen the grieving for Part 2. That's how estrogen works.
Driving past Jenna's school the other day I realized that her turning 9 means she is now halfway to 18, noticing how fast the first 9 years went, realizing that the next 9 will go at least that fast.
Will I make it? Will we? And then what? Where does my heartbeat go? Do I keep it? Or send it out from me?
Of all the layers to my identity, being my daughter's mom is the one I think about the most, where doing it right means every day is one day closer to being left. That little fact is not lost on me.
In my family, we have a hard time raising children to send them out into the world. We don't like letting go. We are smotherers, keepers, hoarders. It takes conscious reminding every day for me to keep from doing what I know.
Ah fuggit. I'm not sure this is making sense. I hear her downstairs now, laughing with her dad. They are watching a show. Her voice rises and falls--fits and jags--loud guffaws, she is nothing if not intense. I am re-amazed so often. heartbeats.
I had coffee with my mother today. Something I haven't done in 4 years.
Nothing is for sure.
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September 26, 2006
Noticing my De-Evangelizing about BAU in Virtual Worlds
Ed Kohler was kind enough to notice and note some (what I thought were) keen observations (and a hell of a headline) that I made the other day about PR pros implying that they have the key to second life, and that the key is replicating first life, except shinier. Ed's article asks an important question: "Should businesses in Second Life mirror the real world?" I don't think so--because doing so is recreating an avataresque version of business as usual (BAU) that will repel human beings in these new worlds just like it did the first time around.
The push toward private relations--social relations among individuals and coops of individuals as organizations--isn't going to disappear inside of virtual worlds; it's going to strengthen. Like never before, the demand is for outsiders coming in to these micronets to adapt to the culture, to interact in context with those who are already there.
Businesses, you are entering a land of people who have already pushed westward and settled vast territories in a quest to be freer. What are you going to do--set up Parliament all over again? And think that they'll LIKE you?
Think again.
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Last but not least...
As I wrap up my fifth year blogging and head toward number six (in November), I've been thinking more and more about why we stay. Never mind why we start--a lark, curiosity, anger, the possibility of making a difference, whatever--but what keeps us here? And even when we leave, why do we keep coming back? About blogging, a certain raging boy once told me, "Just don't quit--there's something in lasting, in hanging on."
That was during a time of great personal drama and trauma in my life, when I wanted to walk away from everything--especially this blog. To delete it. To send it away. To show I still had control of something, I was tempted to turn this space to dust. By hanging on to this blog, I think, I held on to myself--and in the undoing of so many things, I reconstruct myself here. Still.
It is so simple what we're doing here. And yet, it embodies layers and layers of complexity in relating.
People have asked me so many times, why do you stay with Blogger? Why do you stay on blogspot? Why didn't you move everything over to jeneane.net on Wordpress? If you're using Qumana, what does it matter where you post to?
These are all very good questions. I rarely have a way to answer them that satisfies the asker or me. True, I have stayed here for five years although I've gone off and tried starting a typepad blog and wordpress blogs. Although I use a blog editor to post the majority of my posts. Even when Blogger has given me the most of its trouble, I have stayed. And each time I stay, the resolve to stay is stronger.
I can't say exactly why. Maybe Blogger was my mama goose for the Internet--imprinting itself on me with a homing instinct that drives me back. Or maybe it's because Blogger was and still is an accessible, free service--not just for me, but for people I care about, or because blogger's user interface is still superior to the other blogging tools for non-techs, or that blogger has gotten more of my friends and even a relative or two blogging who would not have blogged otherwise.
Yes, you can "set a noob up" with a wordpress or typepad blog, but if they're your aunt, or your aunt's priest, or your kid, or your friend, you can simply say: go to www.blogger.com--it'll tell you what to do.
When Ev coined the Blogger tagline, "Pushbutton Publishing for the People," which is still the best description of what we're doing here six years later, it was no joke. That's exactly what Blogger was. And something about it's never trying to be MORE than that appeals to me.
I still think about the first time I hit the publish button and saw how much faster, easier, and powerful Blogger was for writing to the Web. I was no longer designing web pages. I was WRITING ONLINE.
So I guess that's why I stay. I stay because I came.
And because my staying helped other people come, I stay still.
And the easiest way to say Come, for me anyway, has always been: go to www.blogger.com and follow the directions.
I accomplish MORE while I'm here using Qumana, which has turned me into a posting machine and makes editing and offline composition so much easier--and it can post to my blogs no matter what platform I'm on.
But I stay with Blogger because it's home.
I used to bitch about never getting a Blogger Hoodie when Google bought Blogger. I've bitched quite often when Blogger pisses me off. I've also stood up for Blogger and Blogspot to those who see this space as a Low Rent District.
I figured, if I'm not a good billboard, who is? In Gonzo Engaged, I started the first team blog ever on Blogspot. I was on BloggerPro the second day it came out, and I bought the highest subscription rate for Blogspot hosting in 2001-02, for both Allied and Blog Sisters. Blog Sisters was the first women's team blog on Blogger.
With all of this pretty well known, after the Google acquisition, when I saw all the old-time Blogger bloggers with t-shirts and Hoodies, I was like, "Why not me?" Folks were like, "You were supposed to request a Hoodie on the site." I said, "I DID request a Hoodie. I just never got one."
Well after a few years of wondering why my Hoodie never came, today it arrived.
And, to be honest, I cried when I opened the nondescript box and saw what was inside.
No, Really. I mean, I didn't sob. Tears simply came when I read the note: "Hi Jeneane, Thanks for all your years of blogging."
I finally got my welcome home.
Thank you, Blogger.
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September 25, 2006
You tell me what is a gig?
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Taking Care / Care Taking and getting away
Ahh -- Elaine finally got away on vacation. I'm glad to hear it. I can feel the autumn air - and time passing - in her post:
Sunday was a deliciously fattening breakfast at the newly opened Cheescake Factory in Albany. It's amazing how much has changed since I moved a year ago. New mcmansions being built where the nursery was where I used to buy my plants; the strip mall where I would hunt for bargains at TJ Maxx, empty.
And we are changing, too, as each, in her own time, reaches retirement age. Four of us had careers with state government, so our pensions are better than most. The other two are worried that they will never be able to retire, since their work histories are different. One, for example, works for the post office. Her retirement pension will be only $7000 a year.
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We may say this about the Valley, and we may say that about the Valley
and we may be right about the valley -- nonetheless, the clips here (especially Marc's) make me want to buy the In Search of the Valley DVD. I just might spring for it. If you do first, let me know how it is. Hope there are some womenfolk in it too. Or maybe that's the point. ;-)
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Techmeme Goes Meta Taking Ads from Its Own
Wow. I felt all whiplashish visiting techmeme this morning and noticing "sponsor" posts -- or ads -- over on the right. Now I may not be the smartest cat in the bag (what?), but seems to me that the kind of sponsors ought to be paying to post on techmeme at $3K - $5K a month are sites that have 'getting a life' or 'living life as a normal person' as their central theme, not more web 2.0 sites, like Socialtext, ODesk and Wink, which are likely to end up on techmeme one way or the other for free.
Maybe camping or cooking out related sites or blogs. Or perhaps dogster or catster or pet sales sites. Anything that connects techmeme's passionate geeks with the realworld. Bridge their gap for them, eh? Even BlogHer, you know? Ah well, we'll see how it all comes out in the wash.
UPDATE: oh okay. Gabe has talked to a bunch talked to a bunch of savvy guys about it -- the Gillmor Gang, Jeff Jarvis, Nik Cubrilovic, Phil Sim, and Brian Oberkirch, among others. So, you know. Thank w00tness for that.
UPDATE 2: Vern over at TheGoodBlogs.com -- a service that makes possible what techmeme's sponsorship section is doing -- has a great offer over at his place for Web 2.0 startups who can't afford to shell out a few grand this month.
For the next two weeks, if you're a Web 2.0 company or tech. startup and have a blog, we'll circulate your blog in our advertising slot at the bottom of the TGB widget. All we need you to do is contact us with your name, email address, url of your company blog, a short description of your company and the company url and we'll put you into our pool for consideration.
I'm also offering to add any women-run startups to our Blog Sisters goodblogs widget for a month. It's free. See Vern for the how-tos.
COME ON, come over.
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Did he say I edit wikipedia?
I'm too behind. I missed this. Thanks, wag. I needed that.
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PhoneCon 2006 -- They Came. They Talked. They Hung Up.
What happens when you plan a conference in 24 hours that no one has to attend about nothing in particular with a skeleton agenda and a six-hour day to fill?
Conversation.
Thanks to those who de-attended PhoneCon 2006. I can't remember when I laughed so much with so many different people at one time. First one to bring Hood Cam -- the hood-of-your-car-mounted-webcam (tagline: Images from the Hood) into production wins the PhoneCon Innovator's Trophy. That doesn't exist yet.
Next year we promise to innovate NOTHING at PhoneCon. HoodCam was a mistake.
I know I missed some folks in the list below--for no other reason than I'm a lame organizer/moderator and I didn't take a single note. SO, please feel free to add your link in comments if I forgot you, and I'll put you up here with these Solid Citizens who were in attendance.
THANK YOU ONE AND ALL -- CAN YOU HEAR ME NOW?
PhoneCon 2006 Roll
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September 24, 2006
Text 100 Misses the Second Life Boat
Nice clean world presented by Text100 in their video on how companies can do better brand building and build stronger customer relationships all while "marketing their products much more efficiently" (the old fashioned way, except as good looking avatars), on Second Life.
While PR ass kissing goes on about what a good idea the video was, I have to say, What?
What a waste of a high quality video effort. I've got it! Let's say we're going to demonstrate the power of virtual world interactions so that we can build islands for OUR clients right? And show them how they can invite their customers to do business with them the same way as before, except, it's fake, right, so let's replicate the meeting rooms, dress up in nice suits that only Kenny with the earrings can wear "that way" in our real office, and drag our clients into a virtual world meeting where they can stare at a virtual CEO at a virtual podium talking about the power of brand building and marketing in a virtual world with our virtual logo installed in the virtual background.
Nice production value, okay, but WHAT? I think I even saw a PowerPoint Pie Chart.
I don't know what Second Life you're in, but in MY Second Life I'm still building cubes out of wood, wondering what the hell THAT creature is, how I kiss it, all the while mistakenly getting on (and booted off of) other people's vehicles as I look for my realworld friends in their Second Life forms. A good night is sitting on a bench chatting up the virtually buff Michael O'CC about how cool it is that we can both smoke in second life as I struggle to figure out what keystrokes = INHALE DEEEEPLY.
You see, an Island doesn't a strategy make. And don't let them fool you, my friends on the other side of the isle. The REAL power is in human beings inhabiting worlds where they are not who they are, and who they are is not who they become, and what they do may -- just may be -- who they really are. Within those nuances of play and passion and aggression is where we connect.
For example, if you're a major maker of floor coverings, you'd do better to connect with your market as an EXPERIENCE inside of a virtual world -- not on your own island or your PR firm's island, or on a pixelated repeat of Madison Avenue or your showroom. NO. Get to the context of the thing. Meet me in a seedy virtual jazz club where I'm tapping my feet on your hardwoods (what sound does it make? can I hear it?), or snapping my whip on the easy-to-clean linoleum of a BDSM hideout (is it really tough on stains?), NOT standing in a virtual demo kitchen staring at a virtual floor with a virtual pattern made up as a Carol Brady avatar in a post-modern suit.
You get?
Tell me you get.
(Hat tip for the little jig at the end of the video. Next time strip or somethin'.)
Love,
Sandy
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Social Servings?
The Daily Plate - I think I like this. It can compare what you chose with some other choices that JUST MIGHT have been a WEE bit better than that triple big mac with gravy and cheese fries.
You can be the "me" who uploads healthy recipes too and link up with other getting-healthier people. Social software? How about Social-Take-All-My-Excuses-Away. I'm going to the Y (insert favorite Y joke) again tomorrow. It isn't doing a damn thing, but I sure can take a great nap after two hours of frolicking fitness. Okay one hour of fitness and a kickass sauna and whirlpool sit.
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Denise Heats it UP
I see Denise shows no fear of using the Pod word, so that's good enough for me. PODcast, PODpeople, PODipedia.
Mostly, when I read Denise's recent post, I found myself longing for the days of water and sun, which are long gone from these parts and have been for weeks--school started 6+ weeks ago in Atlanta.
I'd rather be floating.
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People who write for a living...
...get pee-on-thyself giddy when the opportunity to write a headline like this presents itself.
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George Clinton Sunday
"The defense department created the Internet," proclaims Clinton. "I know something’s got to be wrong with it. You don’t get anything that good for free." Clinton further expounded that the information age is merely a digital preparation for the masses. (here)
"After communism fell, they needed another war, so they went to Columbia and brought drugs in so fast they were on every street. The same people that were supposed to be protecting me from it are doing it to get more money for the fight." (here)
"Why the Funk?? Wow, that’s a hell of a question. That’s sacrilege." (here)
"It is a family. Aint nobody stay together this long and go though the things we do without being a family. You fight, fuss, kiss, love, and make up and start all over again. It ain't no virtual family. It’s reality." (here)
"When I hear music that parents hate, or older musicians hate, I know that’s the new music. When I hear older people saying, 'I hate Rap or Techno' I rush to it." (here)
"Sometimes we get so caught up in language, and “this” word and “that” word, that we lose site of the bigger problems in the world. At one time, the word “Bitch” simply meant female dog. Now, it has a negative meaning. Many negative words in one time and/or culture are meaningless in another. We’ve got to stop wasting time fighting over nonsense. I’m still waiting for aliens to come." (here)
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Calling all Libriarians, Authors, and Book Collectors, and Biblio Geeks
Rageboy has discovered some serious shit in the way of simple yet catastrophic cataloguing of books using his i-whatever webcam, Mac, maniacal brainpower, and some barcode scanning software somethingorother.
FREAKY.
I can't say that I have a Mac, his kind of patience, or quite understand what is going on, but the resulting bibliography-cum-steroidal-manifest-destiny-of-books is IN-FUCKING-CREDIBLE.
I believe somewhere there was an accidental scanning of his own face. I'm not sure how healthy that is. For any of us.
These books (most of them anyway) were listed on the Mystic Bourgeoisie blog.
This collection contains 704 books and was last updated on 24 September 2006. It was generated (semi-)automatically by Bookpedia.
You can thank the publishers and (in some cases) reviewers for the crappy formatting and execrable spelling in many of the Summary sections -- which are pulled directly off Amazon, not written by me. I am not endorsing all these books -- by a long shot. Some are extremely valuable resources. Some are here precisely because they're utter crap. It is left as an exercise for the reader -- that's you -- to decide which is which.
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September 23, 2006
Some blog, some write, some blow my mind
Madame, she reminds me.
Though he is fascinated by music theory, he is suspicious of any construct of thought. Standard Western notation and harmony is a big problem for him, particularly for the fact that the notation for many instruments (including his three instruments — alto saxophone, trumpet and violin) must be transposed to fit the “concert key” of C in Western music.
the pen starts moving the dream stops
a kind of dismantling
“Put your clothing back on,”
“I don’t want to see this acting.
I hear that.
September 22, 2006
You have a friend in Jesus...
...on MySpace?
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Mike Arrington Gets Serious
With TechCrush fever burning up the blogworld, I mean, how can I help it?
thanks tara.
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September 21, 2006
There's no place like phone.
From Ronni:
"When I took part yesterday in the first PhoneCon, organized and conducted masterfully for six hours by Jeneane Sessum, we noted at several points that unlike about 98 percent of in-person tech and blog conferences, women on the telephone were the majority. We should be far enough along by now that numbers of men versus women in attendance anywhere is not noteworthy."
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September 20, 2006
Memories....are so beautiful and yet....
whistful. nostalgic. remembering. PhoneCon 2006.
thanks to: michael OCC (yah you know me).BONUS LINK:
Michael performs the train sound from Kevin MARK's live PhoneCon commute.
Tell me which kevin, somebody?
PhoneCon Intermission: Madame Levy - Some Women
For my kid too.
"Image dans son contexte original, sur la page www.persephassa.com/empire.html":
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September 19, 2006
mmmm...fresh croissants!
| live cooking blogging during phonecon - Amie Made Em! First her daughter pushed a hole through each one while Amie focused on PhoneCon, then she baked them. It's her BIRTHDAY!!!!!! HAPPY BDAY AMIE! |  mmmm...fresh croissants! Originally uploaded by Aimka. |
PhoneCon Rocks Wrap-Up!!
Six hours on he phone with the coolest folks I know and don't know is wow--a throat bender of an experience--and WHAT A WONDERFUL day PhoneCon has been--transforming even. My brain is now just shy of a kitchen stove!
Now, for your enjoyment as reports come out across the globe:
PhoneCon Flickr Photo Pool - Conference Photos
Audio Clips courtesy of Ken:
Susan Kitchens performs ladlerredrottenhut live in the Anguish Languish.
Jeneane can't talk like a pirate, so she gives some Southern Belle.
Frank sings the closing keynote, and his baloney has no middle name.
Various Links
Links from a 2-hour chat segment of PhoneCon, in order of appearance, proving once again that hyperlinks subvert everything.
Leslie with something the cat dragged in.
- http://angiereedgarner.livejournal.com/http://www.damomma.com/
- http://community.livejournal.com/ebsq/
- http://www.ebsqart.com
We had upwards of 50 participants, but didn't hit the 96 mark. Most people on the call at one time hovered around a dozen, and slipped down to 3 once.
Amazing. Laughter. Joy.
PLEASE PLEASE IF YOU WERE AT THE CONFERENCE LEAVE YOUR NAME AND BLOG LINK IN COMMENTS--I will update the post to include everyone's links.
Key Take Aways
New Product: HoodCam - "Images from the Hood" - first wi-fi & GPS-enabled web cam mounted on the hood of your car to let others know where you're at and where you're headed.
Ronnie says NYC doesn't allow garbage disposals?
Amie makes the best croissants in Pittsburgh.
Leslie lives in a Presbeter(SP?) near Paris that used to be a cemetary--her dog digs up the dead.
Frank's baloney is worth singing about.
Phonecasting is the new Podcasting
GEORGE!
Doug, don't be scared.
It's Talk Like a Pirate Day.
JP JP JP
McD shudded over RB
Freeconferencecall.com's record feature DOESN'T WORK.
New Product: HoodCam - "Images from the Hood" - first wi-fi & GPS-enabled web cam mounted on the hood of your car to let others know where you're at and where you're headed.
Ronnie says NYC doesn't allow garbage disposals?
Amie makes the best croissants in Pittsburgh.
Leslie lives in a Presbeter(SP?) near Paris that used to be a cemetary--her dog digs up the dead.
Frank's baloney is worth singing about.
Phonecasting is the new Podcasting
GEORGE!
Doug, don't be scared.
It's Talk Like a Pirate Day.
JP JP JP
McD shudded over RB
Freeconferencecall.com's record feature DOESN'T WORK.
THANK YOU!
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PHONE CON IS ROCKIN'
LESLIE - whoo! bike riding with big dog, the gate came down and there are six dogs standing there. so they ducked into the cemetery to protect themesleves until the farmer came home. so there was a dead family in the cemetary named rackelboom -- 20 of them. From like 18 something til present day. Near Paris. Live in the presbeter where the priests used to live.
This is where they used to bury the people--and the dog will dig up a femur once in a while.... OMG.
OH MY FUCKING GOD! LOOK! we're talking TORSOS, not fingers!!
And Peter Dawson just joined. And so did Nick Nichols from Philippines.
The dog ate a poison rat in the field last week. She had weird convulsions and went to the vet and she was fine the next day. She tried to go and hide.
LIVE CHAT AVAILABLE: at http://www.chatcreator.com/chatap/rooms/PhoneCon
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okay maybe someone will get ON THE PHONE NOW so I don't have to listen to this on-hold music!
Joey DeVilla and Wendy Koslow, Ronnie Bennett, Amy Gillingham, Ralph Brandi.
FAVORITE HUES:
Jeneane - Mauve. Tie-dye shirt, sweats.
Joey - Navy Blue. Trouble-shooter, wearing t-shirt and boxer shorts with bear pix.
Ronnie - Midnight Blue. Loose cotton pants. Jacket. Portland Maine.
Amy - Muddy Green. She has a new baby and a two-year-old (flickr pix) who crushed her croissants this morning, she is wearing a brown shirt and left-over maternity shorts.
Ralph - Shade lighter than midnight blue. He is Red-Green color blind. Traffic light green looks white. Ronni's bedroom, which is white and green, which would look unicolor to Ralph. Joey's boxers would look brow to him. Ralph is wearing a Ass Ponies t-shirt and a pair of shorts that are purple but look brown to him.
COLOR BLIND UPDATE: On the Apple Airport Wi-Fi hub, there's an LED that shows working as green and not working is red. Red-green colorblind people like Ralph can't tell the difference.
OMG WE ARE HAVING FUN!!! Pressing 9 to record does NOT work. That kind sux. Here's how freeconferencecall.com's recording feature works:
You press 9 to leave the conference so you can enter the pin.
You don't leave the conference
Everyone laughs because you are still there
You try entering your pin
The first number of your pin is the SAME number used to exit the conference
DOH!
You then call the 1-800 support number and left a message.
Someone call and record this motherfucker.
thanks,
j.
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OMG I'm getting ready to open the lines for PhoneCon!
Well, the tables are shaped in a U, the Wi-Fi is cooking, and the water pitchers are clanking with ice.
At a minimum, please be prepared to discuss what you are wearing and what you are eating.
Dial in after 8:30 a.m. and before 2:30 p.m. EST USA
(605) 772-3200
Participant Access Code: 619136#
Weeee!!!
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September 18, 2006
GET YOUR PHONECON BADGES!
Less than 12 hours away--time to get your badges and tell the world your fingers are coming.
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September 17, 2006
WHAT TIME IS IT!!!!!? PhoneCon 2.0 Fall TIME!!!!
RINGALINGALING!
IT'S TIME FOR
PHONECON 2.0 FALL -- Teh w00t!
Prerequisite: Understanding PHONECON History: CLICK HERE.
PHONECON 2.0 FALL -- Teh w00t!
Prerequisite: Understanding PHONECON History: CLICK HERE.
WHEN IS PHONECON 2.0 FALL?
TUESDAY SEPT 19th. (AKA DAY AFTER THIS) Starting 9 a.m. East Coast U. S. time. Going until we get cut off. Supposedly we can talk for SIX HOURS.
WHO?
You and 95 of your closest bloghorts or people you have never heard of.
Call yourself Conference Attendees. Premium Registrants. Dingos Who Like to Shoot the Shit. Just don't call yourselves billable! (BLAHAHAHA--I slay me.)
WHY?
Morbid curiosity. To test out the true scalability of freeconferencecall.com -- a remarkably free service that I've used for four-person conference calls with no probs, but now I'm curious about what happens when you get 96 people on the phone for six hours -- okay or 20 minutes -- and try to record it. Is it true what they say you can do for free?
Each account accommodates 96 callers on an unlimited number of 6 hour conference calls. Long distance charges may apply. However, there are no additional charges from FreeConferenceCall.com.
FreeConferenceCall accounts also come with FREE conference call recording! Not only is the recording service free, it's accessible by phone or computer, with no additional charges for downloading. You can distribute, archive or even send recordings to your listeners via RSS and podcast...
Well HELLO, DOLLY!
To talk--per-chance to connect, to glean, to gufaw, to add context to hyperlinks. Sort of.
WHO'S INVITED?
1 woman and 52 men--NO WAIT, that's O2.0TM.
EVERYONE! If you want to talk on the phone, don't mind being recorded and casted if I can figure that out, and if anything interesting happens; if you are one of the 95 to make it on sometime during the day; and if you feel like it, well then you can participate. Live blogging is encouraged because I have no idea if the recording thing works and why would I discourage you from something as sacred as live blogging a phone call?
P.S. A special conference organizer shout out to all the Web 2.0 Womens: That means YOU.
TENTATIVE AGENDA:
Introductions
Conclusions
BLAHAHAHA!
Okay, no, seriously, you're in charge. But I was talking with the Co-Vice-Honorary-Capital- Advisory-President this evening, because the Chief Evangelist of the Chairman of the Bored whom I originally made this shit up with last time was 'sleep, and we came up with some ideas to kick around. Please bring your own topics.
Some Topics and Estimated Runtime:
Are you experienced? - 3o minutes
Favorite Hues - 3 hours
Wikipedia--"fixed" or free to procreate? - break out groups: 5 minutes.
What makes the web (AKA: meaning making 101) -- ongoing
Frank Paynter: A song - 2 minutes
Conclusion - 30 seconds (AKA: Bye!)
Charge your battery
Dial in after 8:30 a.m. and before 2:30 p.m.
(605) 772-3200
Participant Access Code: 619136#
See what happens.
DRESS:
Business Casual, Sweats, Naked, or the 2004 Boys and Girls Special.
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Valleyitis Myosis
Dear Valleyites,
You are not that cool.
You are not the smartest people in the world.
Many of you are not very street smart--if you came to where many of us live, you would be afraid of the shade of an integrated neighborhood. You might also be afraid of the lack of asperger's in the gene pool and the high number of female species representing mating possibilities.
Yes it is cool that you live in a Big Hub of Innovation, but please do not forget that just five years ago it was a Big Hub of Unemployment. Don't forget that nature is watching you. And what the fuck is this "Teh" thing all about? Can you people not type? Can you STOP with the "in crowd" lingo? I'm going to start speaking Pig Latin and pretend that all of the cool webby Canadians are doing it.
And does Mike Arrington dress you?
Maybe the answer is not to Flock to the Valley to "be part of what's in the air" (in addition to Dave Winer getting DSL service--jesus you'd think someone in Darfur just got a steak dinner with that problem solved), but to instead flock ANYWHERE ELSE, to Europe, to Toronto, to Macau, to Idaho, to Rome, to Schenectady to anywhere a conversation can be had by people who don't wrap themselves in hipness and lingo that hope to make them seem hipper and wealthier than their unemployed asses were five years ago--that is if they were out of high school five years ago. (Love you kids--now get outta my yard!)
Signed,
Grumpy in the ATL
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It's a Monkey Thing
Now THESE are cool necklaces, from one of our Canadian sisters, who should head on over to Toronto's Chick Advisor and share the monkey love. I can also relate to Miss Melissa's abandonment issues around publications.
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