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We discuss: the government, technology,the Mafia and spam,and poptarts at the recent Supernova Conference.

Other than Scoble and Goodnight Burbank, I was the only person I know i=of in the room actualy making stuff, and the only one making it long-form net-first. This point of view changes my interests and what I see:

I'm bl/vlogging a geek / biz conference with a strong media twist this week. I'll let you know when I'm doing some live streaming commentary. I'm not sure how quickly Ill post video. For now, I'm blogging and twittering (twitter name - heathr)

So my headline is a little long and not as pithy as I'd like. I bow down to my dear friend Owen Thomas, the king, er queen of headlines, who has just taken over Valleywag, leaving b=Business 2.0. Valleywag is the gossip rag, er pixelshmatta of Silicon Valley. It's dubiously admired and rumored to not pay very well leaderNick Denton filled the hole left by Chris Nolan when she left the San Jose Mercury News.

I love Owen. He is pure joy and wit. It will be interesting to see if that affects a business built on venomous snark. I prefer playful snark myself. A good joke doesn't require mean-ness to be good (just truth) and Owen doesn't have a mean bode in his bear-ish little bod.

That's my Prayer for Owen (not) Meany.

Fantastic post by Jonathan Coulton on his success as an indie artist on the Net. He is living the dream of the middle class musician many of us had working on music in the early Web days (I thinking specifically of my time in Apple's early music and webcasting group in 96).

I feel that the talk show will continue to grow in a similar (but not exactly similar) way. Although I envy the simplicity of pure performing sometimes. Just you and the audience. The talk show takes a lot more organizing, multiple cameras etc. But I love it so much. I love bringing people together. I love a mind/heart jam session.

How do you see creative growth online happening for things other than music?

Tip of the hairs to Derek Powazek for the link.

If you have a hard time getting it to load, it's probably because half the Internet is reading it.

Stowe Boyd kindly loaned me a Nokia 93 cell phone which is pretty tricked out, most notably with a very high quality video camera.I plan to use this to vlog at the Supernova Conference in a few weeks (with the goal of making a tech/biz conference highly entertaining and insightful) and in general.

This is my first Bluetooth, infrared device and i am very thrilled to say that I was able to sync all my contacts and calendar very easily with Apple's iSync. Before a few moments ago, I was under the Applr-y impression that I'd need an iPhone to get that.

No longer. Yay.

The thing about loving Apple is, like many Jews with Israel, we need it to exist, celebrate its excellence and want it so much that we avoid acknowledging our own bad experiences with it.

For example my Airport Extreme died while we were away Memorial Day. The Apple Store where I bought it couldn't help me. Too bad for me. Its onla few years old. Why expect it to work?

Related Link: MSFT=XIANS / APPL=JEWS. Listen. Buy.

Mark Buchanan uses interesting scientific analogies to understand our social self-creating order (bigger than free will) and Abu Ghraib. He did this in the NYT and you can read it easily here.

today a few more women
people of colour
at least 4 yarmulkes

on stage:
1 woman
only white folks

working party at night:
1 guy dealing poker
1 guy tending bar
2 women in low-cut dresses
4 different video games

attending party:
1 guy who told me that he threw ice down the dresses of the women working there and that they loved it
1 guy who decided to caress my back before
dozens of fun geeks and vloggers
1 bubbewho played Guitar Hero
There is a picture somewhere

My notes on Jeff Jarvis' talk. This stuff< > is my observations.

what blogs didn't do to get advertisers. happy that video can do

find us
authority
ads track perf

end blockbuster hit economy
vastness that matters
conversation
quality

Creative

find the right voice
direct, blunt, new roughness
less slick

never decide a new orthodoxy says Jeff
300,000/hr is the cost on non-fiction TV

it's about recommending

find things only by recommendations.

about giving up control and figuring out how to make money out of that.
trust

viral is hard. "like a magnesium fire"

the good stuff is made in series by people who care by peopel who care to watch

creators distributors
ad sales
ad agencies
technologists
clients

determine standards for us all

metrics-advertisers need it across all platforms, demos and patterns
>value links and embeds more than just plays
>need context of where they appear
>trust and identity: how to identify who stuff comes from
>how can the advertisers find us

-simple need he saw when he came up w EW. we need new kinds of guides

we're all critics and we're all networks

I love how this is on the front page of the New York Times. I think they've got it up as news. That seems to make it that much funnier.

The banner ad on the page (the one I saw for eBay) also popped becasue it has a nice flash interface than the NYT does. The NYT seems to be unconsciously subverting itself as the elements on the web page laugh at the internal self-image of the paper.