Social Networking Gets a Sanity Check, from GigaOM.
Visiting Houston
Visiting home in Houston.
WordPress / Yahoo Brickhouse Meetup
If you’re in the San Francisco area join us at the Yahoo! Brickhouse for a WordPress meetup this Wednesday. This’ll actually be my first time at the Brickhouse, but I hear they have some mean Wii players.
Sphere Wrap Party
Sphere celebration party at Phil’s house.
Jenna Wortham has a good piece on How an Archive of the Internet Could Change History, bringing together some interesting threads from Keith Haring to quantum mechanics. This is part of the reason I’ve been fascinated by the inter-planetary file system, which I mentioned on stage at WordCamp Europe on Friday.
It’s a time-tested strategy for social networks to pay influential early adopters to use their service, in the hopes of convincing regular folks to create content on it for free.
Mark Armstrong asks you to think about What to Consider When the Platforms Show Up with Money.
Theme Directory Interview
Pre-WordCamp Dinner
A dinner for speakers and Automatticians at Jack Falstaff preceding WordCamp SF 2008.
Anker has come out with a pretty cool new USB charger that also supports USB PD, which is the USB-C power delivery standard which means it can fully power a Macbook. So you can take the USB-C cable that came with your Macbook and use this instead of the white brick that Apple makes and other things as well, so fewer things to travel with. It will of course charge any USB-C devices like your Nexus phone super fast as well. I really hope everything uses USB-C PD in the future
SxSW 2009 Panel Vote
Riding the Crazyhorse: Iterative Testing and Design of WordPress. If that sounds like something you’d want to see at SxSW 2009 presented by Liz Danzico, Jane Wells, and yours truly then vote early and often. Polls close soon.
Mark Cuban, Jason Calacanis, Hackaday, and Royal Navy
Mark Cuban, Jason Calacanis, Hackaday, and the Royal Navy all now have WordPress-powered blogs. The first three switched from Blogsmith. Hat tip: Automattic Publisher Blog.
Om’s Birthday Dinner
A True dinner for Om‘s birthday and guest of honor Kara Swisher.
Buenos Aires Day 1
Empanada dinner and Obama election party at Sacramento in Buenos Aires, Argentina.
Wall Street’s Boom
“The era that defined Wall Street is finally, officially over. Michael Lewis, who chronicled its excess in Liar’s Poker, returns to his old haunt to figure out what went wrong.” — The End of Wall Street’s Boom.
WordPress Installfest
Berkeley Coworking and cog motive are hosting a WordPress Installfest on January 15 to help folks get going with WordPress 2.7.
I joined in for the James Altucher podcast in an episode that covered a lot of ground. One clarification was the point of the story about my Dad not making much at his old job was that companies should be thoughtful about compensation especially for the people who stay with them the longest, not that loyalty is a myth or something to be avoided. It just needs to be two-way.
Albert Lea WP
Must-See WPTV
Venture Destruction
Asleep at the Wheel of Creative Destruction. Umair Haque’s thoughts on venture capital and the current crisis.
Erlang, PHP, WP
Persistent PHP processes in Erlang/OTP. “It’s so easy, in fact, that I now use it to debug WordPress functions from within Erlang.”