November 2004

I love the “tags” feature at flickr. This is a photo from phactiondc’s Nebraska 04 photo set.

Exploit Boston! is alive. Oh, I know. You’ve heard that before. I started to write a long, personal, blathering entry about the past three years (I first registered the exploitboston.com domain about three years ago) but decided to keep the personal tidbits out of this little alert.

Needless to say, I’m thrilled this project is back. My favorite writer is co-publishing it with me and Exploit Boston! Radio is returning in a few days with a super cool sponsor.

Ha!

Will trade DELL MP 3 40 G Harddrive/ Complete Docking Unit/remote control/tungsten earbuds to any open minded woman……

Yup, it’s a “barter” ad on Craig’s List.

I’m selling my Linksys Wireless-G Notebook Adapter on Craig’s List for $30. I don’t need it anymore since I’ve got my iBook. My old Dell notebook computer is barely usable. I should probably find out if I can get the case replaced cheaply. And I’m giving away the box of Howard and Judy Dean on ABC’s Prime Time Thursday tapes that have been collecting dust in a closet. One day when Michael and I were volunteering for the Dean campaign in January we drove around New Hampshire dropping off the tapes. It sure beat canvassing. I did canvass once because it was the right thing to do but … ugh. I really hated doing it. At least the people whose doors I knocked on were friendly. There are additional tidbits about why I have a box of those tapes on the listing over at Craig’s List.

I noticed last night that Web Design World is coming to Boston next month, December 6-8. I have to confess, I’m a little surprised. Not just that there’s a web conference in Boston (in 2004) but the price tag is also $1495. If you know anyone who is going, let me know. My freelancer budget doesn’t seem to have room for $1495 but considering the speaker roster includes the usual suspects of very smart web people, I’m sure the content will be excellent.

NewburyOpen.net, the free/open WiFi network along Newbury Street that Tech Superpowers sponsors, has a new endeavor called the Boston Music Project. Using iTunes music sharing, anyone with a notebook computer with WiFi will be able to listen to streaming music of Boston bands via servers along Newbury Street. The idea was inspired by the Austin Wireless City Project’s collaboration with the South by Southwest Music Festival in Austin, Texas. The project’s info page mentions that it started broadcasting music in September. That hasn’t happened just yet. They need to collect more CDs first. So, if you’re in a band, check it out and send them your tunes!

Gregor attended the Accelerating Change 2004 conference at Stanford this weekend and wrote about several panels extensively on his website. The first entry starts here and there a bunch more including Doug Englebert speaking about large-scale collective IQ, Will Wright (Sims creator) on sculpting possibility space, etcetera.

Remember all those friends and celebrities who insisted they’d move out of the country if Bush won in 2000? No one I know ended up moving. And now it’s time once again for those people and some new ones to start up the talk that if Bush wins, they’ll move. My eloquent response? Whatever. Kos has perhaps a slightly more eloquent retort, though not directly about people fleeing the country but an appropriate response nonetheless.

I’ve always said today was merely a battle in a long war. The GOP built its electoral dominance over 40 years by building a massive, well-funded message, training, and media machine.

We started putting ours together last year.

You all have much to be proud of. But please don’t think your job is done, or that your hard work was all for naught. It’s not, and it wasn’t.

This is just the beginning, not the end. Regardless of who takes that oath next January we still have a war to wage. We won’t wage it with violence, but by building a solid foundation for a new progressive movement.

One of the audio blog posts I tried to record earlier today found itself in the wrong blog so I moved it over to Hear Here!. I’m at Tealuxe and the nearby (open) wifi network is not happy with letting me download the MP3 to see if it really works. Hmm …

Earlier today while standing in line in Davis Square waiting to vote for John Kerry, I decided to revive my audio blog. I suppose all the cool kids these days are calling this podcasting. I don’t quite get that since it’s moreso about the audio and less so about the device you download it to. And I don’t have an iPod. I’ve got 12 unused posts in my audblog.com account and set up a seperate site for my audio ramblings at Hear Here!. Alas, the recordings aren’t showing up on the site and I’m not able to log in to my audblog account. What’s up audblog? I’ve been thinking about setting up an account with audioblog.com if they’ll let me pay with Pay Pal.

The story I thought I was telling via audblog this afternoon was about the crazy lady a few people behind me in line going on and on about how Bush is great and Kerry is an opportunist. Yeah, right. As if Bush hasn’t taken ample opportunity to misuse his authority, etc. She lost her cat while standing in line, too.