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John Perry Barlow: “The Emotional Life of Weblogs”

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JPB’s Page – Blog.

JPB: “I always wanted to know what bloggers looked like. I’m not suprised. You’re a congenial bunch, I find you easier to be with rather than the content protection association”

JPB: “I feel like such a bloggish neophyte that I’m really here more to learn from you folks.”

JPB: “The topic that Dave and I agreed upon about five minutes ago…

JPB: “Shortly after I began blogging, a very close friend of mine disappeared. Spalding Gray.”

JPB: “What i didn’t know is that I was creating a space where people could write about him, and their feelings about losing him, but also about depression and suicide and madness, and things that people generally don’t write about…”

JPB: “this white middle class world is impoverished in its ability to be collectively and emotionally open. there’s not alot of space to do what people who were posting to my blog were doing”

more to come…

Bob Woodward: Plan of Attack

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I Love Bob Wooward’s books, from today’s New York Times:

Two months before the invasion of Iraq, Secretary of State Colin L. Powell warned President Bush about the potential negative consequences of a war, citing what Mr. Powell privately called the “you break it, you own it” rule of military action, according to a new book.

“You’re sure?” Mr. Powell is quoted as asking Mr. Bush in the Oval Office on Jan. 13, 2003, as the president told him he had made the decision to go forward. “You understand the consequences,” he is said to have stated in a half-question. “You know you’re going to be owning this place?”

The book, “Plan of Attack,” by Bob Woodward of The Washington Post, reconstructs that and other private conversations between senior Bush administration officials during the 16-month period of planning and preparation that ended with the attack on Iraq last March.

This will be great reading for the coming week.

Personal TV Networks, Part 2

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Ole: “any comments on rss enclosures v. other ways to do this?”

Andrew: “Look at how tivo handles what it downloads – has a well-managed quota, and after while stuff goes away, it gets deleted. I don’t know what the enclosure support is yet…”

“tv is linear, it’s a program that you watch”

From irc: “loujosephs: drm while it’s easy to wrap on content, is very easily hacked. Yeah it will work but for how long?”

Bit Torrent example: http://live.curry.com/torrents/ntr09.mov.torrent

More Coming

Personal TV Networks, Part I

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Ole Eichhorn sitting in for a missing Adam Curry who was to lead today’s discussion about Personal TV Networks at BloggerCon

Ole asks: What do we want our televisions to do?

Best answer: I want to see what I want – on one channel – when I want it the way that I want it.

“What makes us think that ‘blogtv’ or something similar is going to be any better than what’s already out there?”

“The talent pool is way deeper out there – we know this from what’s in the blogosphere”

dave winer: “is my good different than your good? i like the flaws in things, because then I know a person wrote it.. your good isn’t mine”

ole: “if I took a page from the NY Times website and put it on the page, that’s not cool, but if I excerpt it, that’s acceptable…”

“video production at its root is about storytelling”