Tom Morris

30 May 2006

A pungent mix of programming, philosophy, pedanticism, procrastination, perplexity, peripheral political polemic, and platters of preposterousness.

Andrew Ian Dodge has a superb article about campy, Finnish Eurovision winners Lordi.

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Kent Newsome has some ideas on how to improve the blogosphere.

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PR Week has an article on OPML (via Steve Rubel). Interesting, but I think - as I said in Steve’s comments - that the marketing opportunities with OPML are not do well. Yes, OPML is used 99.9% of the time to move reading lists around. But it’s the 0.1% of the time where the really interesting stuff is happening.

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Yesterday, I put up a new cartoon called What are the Nerds Doing? It features a star-studded crowd: Mike Arrington, Bill Thompson, Adam Curry, Patricia Pye, Cory Doctorow, Steve Rubel, Steve Jobs, Jason Calacanis, Steve Gillmor and me. “;->”

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Cathy Young in Reason: “On the right or the left, reason-based and reality-based politics are increasingly hard to find.”

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I just got Valleywagged. Damn you Steve Jobs, for giving me the gift of Comic Life. “;->”

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Glad to have helped!

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Jeff Attwood is asking whether developers still need to accommodate dial-up? Yes, because large chunks of the world still use it, and the leap to 3G/EVDO isn’t going to be that smooth because of pricing - meaning that lots of folks like me are going to be GPRS users for a while. GPRS is really Dialup 2.0.

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On the Valleywag vibe, check out these facial comparisons. Mike Arrington as John Rawls 2.0? You’ll gasp in surprise at who Jason Calacanis is compared to…

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Stephen is trying out the MP3 Outliner.

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