Dave Winer:
So, ironically, all these people who tell us to shut up have one thing in common, they’re fighting for freedom, but don’t see the contradiction that freedom has to be inclusive. If you fight for your freedom by supressing someone else’s, well, the math just doesn’t work. Freedom isn’t exclusive, it has to be […]

From Google Blogscoped:

W3.org, makers of all web standards, created a highly accessible design on a beloved Netscape 3 gray background. The flag is still a draft and comes with an audio version for the sight-impaired.
The flag for the RIAA is pretty good, too.

This morning, Doug Kaye of IT Conversations and The Conversations Network announced the founding of a for-profit arm partner for those not-for-profit organizations, GigaVox Media Incorporated. You can read the announcement here (pdf file) or listen to it here. Doug’s also announced it on his blog, and there’s likely to be some discussion […]

I generally try to stay away from anything political here (aside from the fact that pretty much everything is political), but here’s a worthy cause for which I will break that informal rule.
This isn’t just a bipartisan effort, it’s a multipartisan one, and is one of the most important issues facing the US today. […]

Alex Barnett:The middleman won’t go away, he’ll just move.
referencing this by Matt Terenzio (who’s been active in the OPML Editor community recently as well)
Good points from both Matt and Alex in this interchange.
I see Matt’s point that eventually we’re going to be pushing all of this stuff out to the edges and that connections between […]

Cory Doctorow’s posted an excellent comparison of the distinctions between incorrect (or false) statements in Wikipedia and a Mainstream Media source, the Register. Quotable quote:
“The Reg is the Wikipedia vandal you can’t revert.”
Real takeaway:
“Wikipedia’s transparent approach to the truth lays out all sides of the debate where all can see them and judge for […]

Seth Godin:

“Five thousand years ago, every human was a hunter. If you were hungry, you got a rock or a stick and you went hunting.
The problem was that all of the animals were either dead or really good at hiding.”

One could argue that the problem wasn’t the change in the animals, but instead in the […]

Some readers may know that I’ve been working with Doug Kaye and the team at IT Conversations since May 2005 or so, as a show description/website editor and Series Producer.
The next step in Doug’s (and the team’s, but mostly under Doug’s guiding hand) broad vision for open audio on the web is now live. […]

Saw this last week on my drive to work:

Didn’t have a camera until this morning, so I had to pull off and take a snapshot of it.
I don’t know what it means, really. Are they “delivering blogging” meaning content? Tools?
Searching their corporate news site I see the following links:

SBC Companies Offer New Platform […]

By which I mean those silly lists that plague the end of every year. Having taken a partial break from the Internets over the holidays I’ve been fairly successful at avoiding them and at keeping my desire to toss my laptop out the window fairly low as well.
Is it safe to come back […]