Silicon Valley

Spending the day traveling again.,

Schiavo and Liberty

I was glad to see that the husband of Terry Schiavo was vindicated in the autopsy results. Whether or not the results had come out the way they ultimately did, I still find myself terribly disturbed by the erosion of personal liberty in this country and the apparent lack of a voice standing up for personal liberty. I say to the government, I will pay my taxes and obey the laws. Just stay out of my house and my personal matters. Does anybody else miss this emphasis? Democrats? Republicans? Somebody?

Painfully Busy

Unfortunately I have been so busy with Rabble that I haven't been blogging regularly or reading my feeds or even letting a podcast fly. I expect that I will get a breather soon, but in the meantime I definitely plan to put out a new $250 Million Radio Show today or tomorrow. More commentary on Edge of the Network media very soon.

Travel Log - Redmond

The rain cleared and revealed a gorgeous day for Seattle. I spent the morning in town in meetings and headed out to Redmond for our afternoon meetings. Redmond has such a weird vibe. A beautiful setting which is the headquarters of the most successful company in the US in the last 30 years or so. Its amazing to see the lush malls popping out of the forests. It feels like today is going to be a good day. I fly home later tonight.

Rain?

I am in Seattle. I was shocked when I landed. It was raining a little bit. Hmmm. Seems unusual for spring. Oh well, I love this town. I'll forgive it...

Product Launches

Product launches are really cool. I guess I mean objectively cool because something came from nothing. The hardwork and time and all the stress and other stuff isn't very cool. But it's clearly a part of the process. Rabble turns a week old in a couple of hours and it has been an awesome week for us at Intercasting. I fly to Seattle tomorrow for a couple of days of meetings and hope to blog about some of my normal stuff during the downtime.

Channel Derrick

I forgot to say, if you are on Rabble subscribe to me on Channel Derrick. Shortly we will be rolling out integration from Rabble to Blogger and Live Journal, so look for some Rabble posts here later.

Seattle

I am spending a couple of days in Seattle this week for meetings. More later.

Mobile Homesteading

When we set up the Intercasting site I had intended to start migrating more of my posting to our company blog. I think I am going to try to do that more and more when talking about our specific company issues that may bleed over into the usual stuff I like to blog about. So without further to do, my first Intercasting post can be found here. Please check it out - a small slice is below:

"With that in mind, we embarked this week on the creation of a mobile community built around the premise that at the intersection of all types of user generated content and sophisticated personal media devices are the elements of a new and exciting community of users willing to create and share their media."

Rabble

Rabble launched on Verizon earlier this week on a subset of our handsets. You can see the information on our site. More to come this week! Check out What's New or Get Messaging to get a copy of the application.

A little news...

We launched. We are keeping it a bit quiet because we haven't rolled out all of our handsets (11 of 22). We will make some noise next week. Have a nice weekend.

Rabble at BREW

We are showing people Rabble at the BREW Conference in San Diego yesterday, today and tomorrow. If you are in town come by and check it out.

Travel Log - SF and Silcon Valley

Got back last week on Friday from the East Coast. It was a great trip despite the horrible weather. We have been doing a quick and dirty VC trip in advance of our launch and it has been a generally fun experience getting to know a bunch of smart people and trying to understand how you would include them in your company.

The weekend involved a lot of family time as my wife is returning to work after six months at home with the triplets. We spent a lot of time with the kids and took the triplets out to their first party at our friends Bruce and Darcy.

We spent the last day running around SF and Silicon Valley for part of our west coast trip and again really enjoyed the conversations and the people. Somewhere in the middle of this I got a nasty cold that isn't helping considering how busy we are.

Today is BREW conference which should be really interesting as we have a lot of interest in our product.

Podcast Wars

Don't miss the latest installment of the Podcast Wars between Dave Winer and Adam Curry. In this episode Dave gives his side of the behind the scenes dealings between the two of them.

Travel Log - Boston

All in all a great trip so far. I am sure I will have some good reflections on the flight home. One problem though...

in·som·ni·a (n-smn-)
n.

Chronic inability to fall asleep or remain asleep for an adequate length of time.

I have had a historical problem with this when I travel. It seems over the last six months or so it hasn't been an issue, until today. After getting to bed at just before midnight, I woke up wide awake at 4 AM. Several hours later here I am. Fortunately today is a bit light, but I can't tell you how nasty it is to be tired and not able to sleep.

In Boston

NYC was fast and furious. Got to hang out with Eli Chapman one night which is always fun. We got into Boston late and got to hang out with CC Chapman who is a damn fine podcaster and a great guy. The next two days will be busy before we fly back home. Two Chapman's in as many days. Funny.

Dallas Skylink

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The DFW airport finally got rid of the Disneyland era Peoplemover with the cool and quick Skylink. Now you can make those really short connections in Dallas. It's a big upgrade.

In New York

We have a full day in NYC and I don't expect much blogging this week, although I am sure something will strike me along the way. At any rate there should be some pics occasionally here.

BitTorrent economics

Check out the following article entitled Mindjack, Is Piracy good? The story highlights the BitTorrent release of the new version of BattleStar Galactica and how a time gap between the UK and the US created intense interest that made the debut of the show one of the most highly watched things on the SciFi Channel in the US.

The author also briefly touches upon how scarcity has created the control necessary to prop up the legacy economics of television, which is something I like to comment on frequently. Its almost funny when they speak of how broadcasters are barriers rather than conduits for the flow of content, which is painfully true but also understandable given their business model.

The author goes on to highlight how use of on-screen icons may be a good way to capture value for advertisers. This is definitely one way to deal with capturing value in a world of distributed hyperdistribution, but I don’t think that the multiple models required to create the necessary economics for big media content are imminent or practical at this point. Rather I think that the pattern of lawsuits initiated by the RIAA will be continued in the near term by the MPAA while producers of content at the edge of the network will try to create economic value for ‘right priced’ content through low cost production, hyper-distribution and the development of audience on a scale that supports their endeavors. Periodically big media will see the value in this edge generated content and will try to re-purpose it in ways such as Adam Curry broadcasting podcasting, or in harvesting the seeds of this content and putting the big media stamp on it for a increasingly departing audience.

Bayosphere

Dan Gillmor announced the birth of Bayosphere this week. Dan wrote the great book We the Media which I enjoyed a lot. I was excited to see what he was going to do, and I guess I expected something a little more broad than a grassroots site focusing on the Bay area (hence the name). I guess you have to start with what you know. I am assuming he is going to use the parent company to branch out after they get started ala Craigslist.