Preliminary reports are coming in from SRO (see the entry following the one I've linked here as well, although he mentions sighting me—or another xian?—there when as far as I know I was still here up north at the time):
Dear Bloggers:Dude, we're geeks! (Most of us anyway.) This is still a very fringe activity, even if the statisticians have already called "game over" on the race for fame and fortune.
Well, the jig is up. I've seen you. I went to the Live at the Blogosphere and I have to say, you were, well, different than I imagined. It's funny how you picture people and then meet them and they're a little shorter? Pudgier? Dressed weird? I dunno, but You were different.
You were a star, I'll say that much. The place was packed. Outside was someone looking at the Webcast on a computer while someone else took a picture of them while I watched. I was watching someone take a picture of someone watching a webcast of something that was Ten Feet Away. All of this on the street where they filmed part of Bladerunner. That, of course, pretty much sums up Blogging.As the cliché goes, "Read the whole thing."
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Why am I always the last to know? Dan Gillmor reports that Google is buying Pyra. In the short term, the main effect will be greater stability for Blogspot users.
Over at his blog, Dan is also collecting commentary from bloggers about this move. Most seem to think it's a good fit.
I wonder if this will spur Google to start indexing down to the permalink level? This would be a major shift from the web-page indexing paradigm that's been used by all major search engines thus far. I've been working on an essay called "We're addressing the wrong level," but I never seem to get it done. Maybe this is a good time to get those thoughts out and onto the record.
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I think I can safely file this under "blogging too much lately." I had one of those long, convoluted dreams last night, much of which I can still remember even as the internal dream logic has started to tatter. Near the end, I was in a motel room with Mark Pilgrim.
We were discussing Shirky's power law article and I was telling him that people were going to continue to cite his dramatic "success" (in terms of popularity in a relatively short time) as a counterexample to Clay's point, even though it's more complicated than that.
We agreed that the fact that links (or probably any other currency of the net) would be distributed unequally among sites says nothing really about where any one individual site will end up on the power law curve.
Then Mark headed for the dresser and said, "Would you like to smoke?" I was taken aback, as I've read his many fascinating entries about addiction, and though I am not an abstainer myself, I said No, trying to impress him (and a little shocked about his flouting his public persona here in private).
Then I woke up.
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