Do we need a "maximum wage"?

Greed and Good is a new book about the outrageous wealth and inequality. Heard of the trickle down theory? Try this quiz and see if you change your mind. Then buy Sam's book. Then take action. I plan to buy it as soon as I see Sam. Disclaimer. Sam Pizzigati is my former boss who retired to write this book.

Washington Takes The Lead From Kansas City

Ben Forta Visits DC Again

Kansas City held the user group attendance lead (for this tour) for a few weeks, but Washington D.C. took the lead this evening with 100 attendees. About 1/3 of those present had attended my CFUN keynote, so I varied the presentation somewhat (different examples, additional content), answered lots and lots of questions, and listened to all sorts of suggestions and comments. Next stop, Philadelphia.

I was there. The attendance was good as was the FigLeaf pizza. Ben said use your own words and I will. Blackstone is the code name for the new version of ColdFusion expected early 2005. Hightlights:

• Lots of tools and wizards to make it easier for newbies.
• Support for XForms to improve management and style.
• Lots of ways to create Flash forms like Grids and Trees.
• Binding of form fields. Example, disable field if others are not completed.
• Printing and reporting including on the fly PDF format as well as FlashPaper.
• ColdFusion Report generator that looked powerful.
• Able to bundle into JAR file and run on other J2EE server.

Overall, it was great. A long night with lots promise.

Market States

John Robb's commented that "Joe Reger is on the right track with his understanding of my work on global guerrillas."

First, Joe has a very good summary to what John has been posting. This is not about Iraq, but a global change to our world.

Second, John's global guerrillas blog and upcoming book should scare the shit out of you.

While Bush's team doesn't get this, I hope a Vietnam vet's team will. Yikes! 

Vacation

This vacation will be with my laptop and BlogJet. So maybe some posts, maybe not. Starting with Father's Day, kids making breakfast and a great day a boogie boarding ahead. Ahhhhh... vacation.

Dave Winer Is Not a Murderer and the Lack of Patience

On Halley's Comments she headlined the problem with blogs at weblogs.com as Blog Murder. I left the following comment (typos corrected), but did not post here until now.

Just listened to Dave's audio file and got an understanding from his side. But change is hard and it looks like without notice it is harder. I'd like to hear from some of the bloggers.

It also looks, without spending a lot of time and trying not to point fingers, that he did his best given it was a free service and his coming move. However, readers of the blogs never got notice and I think that is where the problem is.

Sure there was a solution, but I'll take him at his word.

Since that initial comment I've read a lot of other bloggers and comments. You've probably seen more. Also there now appears to be a reasonable transition plan, but again we'll have to wait and hear from the bloggers. So I now have an observation and I'm not pointing fingers at anyone.

Regular bloggers make several posts every day. This is the best practice of blogging and a proven technique for making a blog popular. This is not to say that all bloggers are slaves to this practice. Additional evidence of the daily nature of blogs is that several bloggers have taken vacations from their blogs. My observation is that the nature of blogs as a media (in the McLuhan sense) puts bloggers into a daily mentality.

Thus the outrage that some bloggers would not be available for a few days. These bloggers that want to continue blogging will be back. Unlike the results of dot.commers who disappeared, the archives of these blogs will be restored. These bloggers could still continue to blog off-line everyday. So the outrage appears to be fueled by the daily need to blog and read blogs.

Can't we as bloggers rise above this daily nature of this media and have a little patience? 

ReJoyce Bloomsday

Today is the hundredth anniversary of the day detailed in James Joyce's Ulysses.

• Read it on Botheration, page by page or get the RSS feed.
• If you want a short version, a parody, see Ulysses for Dummies.
• Joyce's Schema for Ulysses outlines each chapter
• Even Google is celebrating.

 

Lyris Does RSS

Lyris, the great email list manager software, just announce beta for version 8.0. Among several nice features is full support for RSS. This is absolutely great news. But because the content of an email is not microcontent like an RSS feed, I'll hold judgement until I see the product in testing.

Findory Blogory

Not sure which blog lead me to try the Findory Blogory. This is a very interesting alternative RSS aggregator as it personalizes your items based on what you've been reading.

I think it is more of a novelty than useful, until they open it up a bit. For example, can I get a OPML file of the RSS feed that it thinks I'm interested in? Can I upload my OPML file to set its "intelligence"?  Can I send my "preferences" to someone else to try and then have them start over? Can I work with a community of common interested - sorta like a group aggregator? Open it up and you might have something here.

Hello from Picas

Maybe I'm in a tool mode with my new laptop. I was reading about photoblogging on Blogger. Then Halley's Comments mentioned the new photo tool which tipped me to download Hello and Picasa.

Hello is very, very interesting. You upload pictures to your blogger blog. But you do it using your Blogger buddy. Yes, it is an IM application! So not only can you send pictures to your blog, you can also "send" them to your Hello buddies.

This should be interesting when I'm on vacation next week.

Backlinks by Bloglines bookmarklet

Another interesting blog tool This bookmarklet is by Sebatien Paquet:

I've whipped up a Bloglines Citations bookmarklet which should prove even more useful than the Technorati Anywhere bookmarklet. Drag the first link to your link bar, and click it while viewing a page. You'll get all the backlinks Bloglines knows about in no time flat.