Saturday, December 04, 2004

Hey I just signed up for a free serivce called K7 that gives you a phone number where you can leave me a voicemail, which it sends to me via email. I've wanted this for some time. I just recorded a message myself. You can send me a message by calling 206-338-3143. Nothing to it.  

New photos of prisoner abuse in Iraq. "An Associated Press reporter found more than 40 of the pictures among hundreds in an album posted on a commercial photo-sharing Web site." 

Five of the photos on the San Diego Union-Tribune website. Check out the comments from readers below each picture. 

Scoble's writing a book on blogs, on a blog, with Shel Israel. 

EthanZ needs help with a name for the last 4.8 billion people on earth. 

Ed Cone says that Wired did carry the message of change created by weblogs in 2000, in a profile of yours truly. Last night I (more or less) said that this had not happened. 

Julie Leung on the emotional life of weblogs. The MP3 of the BloggerCon session is up. 

Adam Curry, our fearless, broadband-lacking podcaster, may have found a wireless service provider to SOA. (Save Our Ass.) Does it reach his house in Gilford? 

The feedmesh group at Yahoo is working on a distributed system for weblog pinging. It wasn't started in a very nice way, but now they seem to have turned the corner. If you're interested in pinging systems like weblogs.com, check it out. At some point we're going to need a distributed system, and this may be a good way to get there. I monitor the list through its RSS feed. 

And thanks for all the interest in helping with the weblogs.com rewrite. I got over a hundred emails from qualified developers. That's totally amazing, and totally appreciated. We were able to fix the existing system, so we can now easily handle the flow of pings (there was an unobvious performance bug). If you want to participate, I recommend joining the group, above.