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To those struggling through the lengthy posts today, I put an archive of all the posts about Dave’s speech at Microsoft on a single page, in proper reading order (or what you might consider “reverse reverse chronology”). Enjoy, all.

Finally, my driving-home impressions of Dave’s talk today:

It was interesting seeing how tightly tuned the Microsoft crowd was to issues of blogging platforms (e.g. SharePoint vs. LiveJournal vs. other platforms) and less to the social impact of blogging, both inside the organization and on society as a whole, which seemed to me to be rather [...]

That is, why go to events like Dave Winer’s talk today at Microsoft, MacWorld San Francisco 2002 or BloggerCon and take notes about everything that’s going on, and post them in real time to your blog?
Two reasons, at least for me. One is that taking extensive notes helps me to pay attention. I’ve always [...]

Clancy Ratliff at CultureCat points to threats from the James Joyce estate to enforce copyright through lawsuits if there are public readings of Ulysses during the 100th anniversary Bloomsday festivals this June.
For the uninitiated, Bloomsday marks the anniversary of the events of Joyce’s brilliant novel, which all occur on the 16th of June in [...]

Before I tuck into follow-up thoughts from Dave’s talk today at Microsoft, a brief pause of appreciation for a really fine porter. One of my monthly beer selections, Ridley’s Witchfinder Porter. Color when poured is a deep ruby-black, with a big (albeit shortlived) thick white head. Nose is malty, toffee-ish almost, with hints of chocolate. [...]

Questions?

Difference from a departmental home page? It’s not different. The two are converging. The technology and user interface are now boxed up in the concept “weblog.”

Sounds a lot like the Sharepoint vision? Dave says, how’s that doing? We have two competing visions, one coming from one company–I don’t know that about it. Does it use [...]

I came to Harvard a few months after a conference where they said, “The dot-com thing is over. What do we do with the Internet?” And they decided to share information across the schools using weblog technology. And that’s how I got the job.
Think about it this way: In every workgroup, there’s one person [...]

I should mention that this is my paraphrasing of Dave live. I can’t type verbatim that fast, and I’m posting real time rather than recording and returning later.

It doesn’t have to be president, in fact it was least likely that it would be a president. Because it mean confronting the power of television head on. [...]

I got in late. Dave is on stage now talking about evolution of RSS as a format:

…aggregators both on web in channels and reverse chronological order. We now have “thousands and thousands” of feeds, both big pubs and small publishers. And through this same interface you get both. And you can get triangulation.

Which leads [...]

Consider this a “reader request” posting. I don’t do reader requests as often as I should, but I noticed that there were quite a few people coming to my pages with questions about the MyDoom worm and realized I hadn’t included direct pointers to any worm removal tools.

Microsoft has posted a removal tool for MyDoom [...]

Today is Dave’s talk at Microsoft. It looks like it will be an interesting discussion, bridging the work he’s been doing with RSS and OPML with his observations of weblogs and the 2004 presidential campaign.