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I sort of wasted my night last night reading old archived posts put up around the time Kathy Sierra quit blogging, and try to draw some conclusions on the differences in blogging style from 2007 to 2009.

Actually, just go to the page and hit '?'... full instructions there.

It's a P2 based theme.

It operates just like Google reader. j/k go up and down the page, hit r to reply to a post. No Twitter needed.

Twitter comments are pulled in via Backtype.

Post includes a whitepaper from the MIT crew who built it describing the hardware and software involved.

I really don't think that's how supply and demand works.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Supply_and_demand

HP's Senior Veep Marius Haas had some strong words for Cisco in his interview with John yesterday evening (post 3Com acquisition announcement).

Corporate exec interviews admittedly aren't that interesting, usually. This one is definitely an exception to the rule.

You want Uncov's product Persai. Or whatever he ended up calling it.

It pretty much did that.

Not that I'm aware of.

They're doing some funky stuff with that Auto-sort and Magic options, but I don't think they do what you say.

I get that. It's always difficult to migrate data, no matter how easy it has been made to move.

That's why I always go with different categories - I track an unusually large number of feeds, so not everything is of equal importance every day. On slow news days, though, I make my way down the categories I have organized in order of priority.

I intentionally subscribe to more feeds than I need so I'm never without, but don't feel guilty about not reading them all.

I've always felt that Google was a benevolent overlord. That may change at some point, and at that point I'll leave. Until then, I'm ok with being dependent on them for almost everything.

I'm sorry, but I agree with almost everything in this post. Not to start a platform war or anything, but Drupal seems like the best CMS in the world until you figure out that you can do it all in half the time using Wordpress.

.. in which I rehash my theory as to how a federated microblogging network could supplant Twitter, as well as correct the truly puzzling analysis from Erick Schonfeld.

Here's the problem with oversimplifying it to client/server mainframe terminology - people get all caught up in the fact that client/server stuff isn't "new," and thus since it went out of vogue some time back, it's disproven technology.

The fact is, whether or not the "average user" doesn't understand the difference doesn't mean there isn't one.

The average user doesn't understand the difference between a lithium ion battery and a nicad battery.. The average user doesn't understand the difference between an internal combustion engine and a hybrid electric engine. Just because different technologies appear different on the surface doesn't mean that there aren't fundamental differences under the hood.

It's important to clearly define these differences, particularly for those who are choosing to participate in cloud punditry but can't be bothered to look up the wikipedia entry on cloud computing.

Steven's post: www.inquisitr.com/44153/the-new-dial-tone-a-snapshot-of-of-bloggings-future/

Apologies. Didn't know it had been submitted at the original source. FWIW/FYI. We have permission to syndicate Mark's posts to SiliconANGLE. Moderaters, feel free to downvote or hide this entry.

No worries, chief. A truly well constructed piece, and particularly cool given it was ready for release only a few days after the event.

When's the sequels coming out?

A pretty technical article discussing the benefits and risks associated with owning the supply chain in hardware manufacture.

That sounds a lot more boring than the post actually is, though.

I hadn't looked at it that way, but my cloud section editor assured me it was very funny to other cloud guys. shrugs, goes back to programming

That's not the point. Not the point at all.

Sachin defends his service Posterous because non-geeks can do everything with it without knowing how to walk and chew bubblegum.

I can't name five members of my immediate or extended family that has a lot of experience using a search based API. Hell, I'm a coder, and I don't have that much experience using a search based API.

I code when I hafta, and I don't want to write a whole set of libraries just to export my data. Creating artificial barriers to the exit door is the exact opposite of the spirit of Data Portability.

Edit: Incidentally, it isn't that I didn't read the API that thoroughly, it's that the API isn't that well documented. Pretty much what is screenshotted is what exists. It's not very well explained.

I've been around since the whole Data Portability thing was conceptualized. Everyone nodded and stroked their beards pensively, but it's been what? Two years? Three years? Data is still effectively locked up under the guise of portability.

John Furrier sat down with Michael Schoepfer, FB's Veep of Engineering, and talked about operations at great scale, and how they've avoided the fail whale thus far.

We most certainly could catch up - as is often noted in just about every post on evolution v. creation I've read, evolution is a very inefficient process in terms of time required to accomplish change.

Kurzweil's graphs on the human and machine acceleration of evolution spring to mind as well (the logarithmic curve).

And as we know, our governor here in Texas is very anti-Federal regulation (he recently intimated at a press conference that we once were and could go back to being an independent nation, a not-unpopular notion amongst Texas natives).

Post I did on the absurdity which is the new Finnish right to broadband.

Seems to me that @ruv's statement could be refuted by a quick scan of the Wikipedia article on cloud computing.

When half of your initiative involves reading the man pages for Amazon and Google's public cloud programs, I say it's pretty easy to call that a "launch." :-)

In seriousness, though, the program launched today, not the cloud computers. Government launches are much different than biz launches.

Except that it happens a lot quicker than it ever did on Wikipedia or blogs, and reaches a much wider audience now.

Here's the thing people like us tend to forget - the power of Twitter is mobility. Yes, blogs and wikis are powerful publishing platforms for people viewing them on computers.

Twitter is viewable on the most common device in the world, mobile phones. There are very few mobile phones in the world incapable of getting access to Twitter, making it potentially the most widely available social network on the planet.

No computer required.

Add in all that other media democratization stuff, and that's why you get a lot of the hoopla around it you never saw with Wikis and blogs.

18 minutes isn't live. It isn't real-time.

Live and realtime is instant, as in less than a second or two and at most a minute (in certain contexts).

Friendfeed, for instance, is a live search engine. Update your GChat status or share something on Google Reader. The time to update and be indexed by the main search engine on Friendfeed is seconds.

There was one part of this that stood out to me, where Mark suggested that it might be worth it ask for token investment from those on the advisory board:

"Get some skin in the game. I know it sounds crazy that you’re approaching industry luminaries that you would die to work with and you’re asking them for, gulp, money! But if you approach them with a very fair valuation and ask for a small check (say $10k, which should be nothing to someone in this position) I believe you’ll have a reasonable shot at it provided that you actually have an interesting company."

It stuck out to me, because it harkened back to a post John wrote a few weeks ago - "An Entrepreneurial Counter Culture is Looming" (http://siliconangle.net/ver2/2009/09/18/an-entrepreneurial-c...).

In the post, as was backed up by several HN commentors and commentors at the site, John said: "I’ve estimated that the required amount for a "real" seed round in today’s open source environment for tech ventures is about 200-300k – that is unless you are young and can do the coding yourself."

Obviously, fundraising isn't the goal of assembling an advisory board, but it is interesting that should you not be able to get angel or seed funding in the amount you're looking for (not millions, but not $10k or whatever), the advisory board might be a middle ground to look at.