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September 27, 2003

NYT Customer Care

We get home delivery of the NYT, and our delivery person gets the paper here pretty late every day, so much so that we've taken to reporting an undelivered paper for credit. Yesterday I did it by phone; today I did it online. Or at least I tried to:

No undelivered reporting for you

Posted by John at 8:38 AM |

September 23, 2003

Seen on ebikes

A promo for the Better World Club, an alternative to Triple-A that offers roadside assistance for both cars and bicycles:

Car Talk Says: "We're signing up [for Better World] immediately. We had no idea that part of our AAA dues were being spent on lobbyists who op-pose just about everything having to do with public transportation. If AAA thinks that it's a good idea for every single person to get to work in 3000 pounds of iron, we sure don't want to help support such a silly idea. Cars stink. Everybody knows that."

Tom Magliozzi, co-host of Car Talk on NPR

Posted by John at 5:35 PM | | Comments (1)

Goddamn hippie utopian pie-in-the-sky bullshit

Photos of Car-Free Day

Posted by John at 5:30 PM |

September 11, 2003

Blogged in blood?

Scripting News

In no way minimizing the suffering and grief caused by the crashes, it was also a day of incredible growth for the weblog world, and emphasized the need to continue to develop decentralized communication systems that route effectively around outages.

Just the very fact that this needed to be qualified gives the entire statement the lie. For shame. A simple statement of commemoration and sympathy would be preferable to this thinly disguised advertisement. I wonder how the victims' families feel knowing that their loved ones died so that the weblog world might experience "incredible growth."

Posted by John at 10:22 PM |

September 10, 2003

And (s)he is us

Halley's Comment

Halley Suite on why bloggers will elect the next president:

Bush has created a country of HAVES and HAVE-NOTS, based on an arrogant media and elite of KNOW and KNOW-NOTS. They think they KNOW everything and we know nothing. Bloggers say, "Hey wait a minute, maybe we DO know something."

But wait, isn't she just describing a classic Shirky power law distribution? One man (or woman's) power law distro is another's elitism. It's all context, and the more I read the A-list yammer on and on re: itself and its importance, the less I like it. My reading tastes have changed lately, I find myself reading more progressive weblogs and fewer technical ones. If you're at all willing to elect someone based on their having a weblog, as far as I am concerned you're just another lobbying special-interest group.

Posted by John at 8:57 AM |

September 3, 2003

We'd all love to see the plan

Scripting News in Manila

Two years ago today we were planning a session for Seybold on Sept 26 about The Next Technology Revolution. It was cancelled because we had our revolution, on Sept 11.
(Emphasis mine)

I don't understand this. What revolution is Dave Winer referring to? Is he a Muslim fundamentalist?

Posted by John at 9:26 PM | | Comments (1)