Is Obama black?

Yesteray at breakfast at the Sunnyside Cafe in Albany, we arrived late, all the indoor tables were taken so we sat outside. It was frigid cold, for California, in the low 50s. I wasn’t really dressed for it.
We started talking with the man at the next table about how cold it is, and I said […]

Boostrapping a decentralized Twitter

Overnight Mike Arrington weighed in on the decentralized Twitter discussion. I’m glad he is getting involved, he’s a smart guy and is now using Twitter as an integral part of his communication system. But I have to disagree with the way he characterized my thinking.
I always work in bootstrapping mode, addressing the first big issue, […]

Breaking news on Twitter

Read this post from John Borthwick, my partner in Switch-A-Bit.
http://www.borthwick.com/weblog/2008/05/06/future-of-news/
Breaking news covered by a loosely coupled ad hoc group of Twitterlings.
Update: Reuters was watching too.

IRC for Indiana/North Carolina

I started a chatroom for tomorrow’s primaries.
irc://irc.freenode.net/#indianaNorthCarolinaPrimary
Please join if you want the firehose conversation!