Thursday, July 31, 2008
So, today we’re blogging in the mode that once was the norm for gulker.com, back when we used Radio as our blogging tool (and before that, a collection of hacks in Userland Frontier). For a while, in the mid-late 90s, the blog was served from the Frontier database, a primitive (in the case of […]
Editing is not becoming a commodity
Last April, Linda sent me a link to Sara Perez’ post “Content is becoming a Commodity” on ReadWriteWeb which focuses on the problem that modern bloggers have hanging on to their words and other content. I’ve finally finished an 800-word piece in response (though some kinks and bugs may need a revisiting.) Content has always […]
Senator Kennedy’s glioma
The Gulker household has an unusually deep, if understandable, interest in glioma - here’s a description of the disease I wrote for a post on one of my writer’s email lists. So, naturally, we’ve been reading accounts of Senator Kennedy’s bout with glioma with interest, even as we wish him all the luck in the […]
Sunday evening in Berkeley
Daughter-in-law Julie Getze and I attended the James Taylor concert at the Greek Theater at UC Berkeley last night, the tickets being a joint birthday gift to us both from spouse and stepson. Julie hadn’t been born when Taylor’s ‘Fire and Rain’ and ‘Sweet Baby James’ were hits on those groovy ‘underground’ FM stations in […]
A ‘dash’ through Baylands
None of our usual Baylands companions, neither cormorant nor egret nor blue heron were around today, so I had to make do with this snap of the ‘pole forest’ and a couple of joggers.
I did manage two new personal bests: I walked the 1.8 mile loop in an hour and 10 minutes (10 minutes faster […]
15 minutes of Silicon Valley fame for the ‘Influential Blogger’
We were sitting at lunch at the AlwaysOn Summit yesterday, talking to IBM Capital’s Drew Clark, when Alexandra Johnson, a partner at Draper Fisher Jurvetson sat down next to us. I’m running a digital voice recorder, capturing Drew’s ideas, so it looks like he and I are in some sort of heavy discussion.
Most of the […]
Live from AlwaysOn Summit at Stanford
We just finished community platform session… Technology enablers coming up… Wyndstorm is presenting its Socialframes product…
Everything, it seems is moving to the cloud, including the office switchboard, according to RingCentral, a Voip-based virtual PBX that can be set up from a web page…
Bumped into IBM Venture Group’s Drew Clark, who we talked to at […]
Monetizing culture
Some unexpected delays in San Francisco curbed our Stanford Summit plans today, but two of the participating companies that pinged me and caught my attention, are both in the second wave of social networking. With Facebook and MySpace well established as the way many choose to interact with the net, there are opportunities both to […]
Stanford Summit 2008
Always On’s 2008 Stanford Summit kicks off tonight, with the major happenings commencing tomorrow. Naturally, my neuro-oncologists scheduled my latest round of chemo to start tomorrow as well, so we’ll be doing our best to follow Wednesday’s events remotely, probably on the iPhone (though I’m not sure we’ll have live, streaming video this year.) This […]
The good and bad about transparency
We recently wrote about our latest health news, which prompted a minor flood of concerned email from friends and colleagues, though I wasn’t quite sure why. One comment was that it ‘didn’t sound like Chris.’
I’ll repeat that the news was very good for a person with glioma. The tumor is stable, indeed a faint shadow […]