Thursday, April 29, 2004

BBC: Google files for IPO.  

Report from Geneva. Great room, great view, friends, food, geekfest, birth place of the World Wide Web.  

There will be a Thursday night meeting at Berkman, at 7PM Eastern. They will discuss many things, including doing Thursday night meetings after my fellowship is up, at the end of June. I will be at next Thursday's meeting, Murphy-willing.  

Thanks to Widmann Associates, a local venture capital firm that generously let me use their Internet connection this afternoon.  

Adam Curry: "I don't want to fight about who owns what, I just want to broadcast." 

Scott Rosenberg: "A president who pulled family strings to get a berth in the Texas Air National Guard, and then couldn't even show up for that cushy job, sends out a vice president who won multiple draft deferments and candidly admits he had 'other priorities' more important than fighting under U.S. colors, to attack the 'judgment' of a Democratic candidate who both fought for his country and had the guts to turn against the war when its folly became evident." 

Steve Rubel interviews Robert Scoble. 

Stanford student Dan Kreiss interviewed Meg Hourihan, one of the founders of Blogger. 

Odd thought on a train in Switz today. Whether blogs are journalism begs the question. Go deeper. What's the point of journalism? Information. Can blogs get you information? Without a doubt. 

Postscript to post about SMS. Apparently my source was talking about fractured standards above the level of SMS. I've gotten dozens of SMS messages from all kinds of places and (presumably) devices indicating that interop with SMS is good. I haven't figured out how to send an SMS message efficiently, so if you haven't gotten a response, here it is: Thanks. 

Jay Rosen gazes at his navel.