Oh, and by the way: Metatwittergram

Is it just me, or have all of the recent anti-marijuana commercials in the US seemed like the sort of thing one might come up with while partaking? And, I have to be honest, they seem pretty goofy and don't actually me think ill of the stuff.

Speaking of geeky and gawky, I'm still sort of working how this whole tumble / OPML blogging thing works in terms of published thought order. Do I post in reverse-chonological order? Sometimes it makes sense to read the day as a whole in narrative sequence. Sometimes it makes sense to tail a log. This is a little different than "normal" blogging.

I like how Christian Neukirchen's Anarchaia tumbles out a day-at-a-time on the feeds. I wonder if an option like that for this blog would be good? Something a little more "published" and a little less fluxxy than a direct view on my mental foam.

Stefano Mazzocchi: "good ideas and bad code build communities, the other three combinations do not"

Dave Winer: "Writing a spec and asking nicely if everyone would implement it gets you nowhere. The only way to get something to stick is to put up a compelling app, and let the market drive a standard. Tech people don't play nice unless the market forces them to."

Catching some of Dave's buzz about a new cobbling-together of technologies. It's fun to watch him start spinning up on an idea. This time, it's Twitter and little MP3s. Not sure if TwitterGrams will take off, but podcasting looked like this at one point.

Still in a bit of a creative / hacking slump, but I wonder if it would be fun to lash something together out of some scripting, some S3, some Twitter API, and some other bits and bobs? Could be like a real ambient stream of coffee-shop background chatter. I wonder if it would be annoying or strangely engaging? Text is easy to do at work, audio's harder. Hmm.

I remember in part of Joi Ito's 23C3 presentation on World of Warcraft that he mentioned he sometimes leaves the We Know guild TeamSpeak channel streaming into his house speakers in the background, even when he's not playing. At the time, I was reading Vernor Vinge's Rainbows End, which has lots of scenes of near-future internetworked human collaboration and lots of ambient presence through wearables.

It's all kind of geeky and gawky right now, where things exist or work at all. But, I remember when I was really gawky - and am less so now. I'm even more geeky, but I like to think I've matured. Hopefully this stuff all will too.

Kent Newsome: "Scoble could write a post about arm farting and 30 or 40 people would immediately link to it, hoping he might link back."

If I were Scoble, and I read this, my immediate response would be to write a nice, long essay on arm farting. :)

Hello world. Breaking radio silence to see if I got anything to say.