Stupid bagels

Eating bagels with David Isenberg, Esther Dyson, Geoff Cohen. Interesting people rock. Discussion ranges topics wildly as usual; we've been through simple networking, the simplified POE server/client, etc.

Nanotech is going to need simple networking, because a billion nanobots need a way to self-assemble a network, and you can't hope for complexity to work as well as simplicity. I mentioned POE's simplified server/client TCP components, as well.

I know two Russian jokes now! Now, three! No, four! Five! AUGH!

Esther Dyson's this awesome person, friendly looking and with a cool personality; today's quote, "her mother gave her a kilo of butter". A conversational thread observes that in old Russa, it was more important to have things than money.

The bagels are good.

Blogs seem to be useful for light-to-moderate level content; useful for tracking partial thoughts, or throwing them out to the public at least. Also useful for blogging :)

Live site feedback! My real name is now actually present on my blog; before, it was only coming up in Google searches.

Talked briefly with Lisa Rein, from the Bookmobile; apparently there's talks in progress with publishers to get non-copyright-freed content published through the booikmobile. Apparently they're also working on getting children's content publishes, even through copyright would normally interfere. Woot!

The Register is talking about us, so we're apparently deserving of a "counterpoint". Interesting read. Did someone really say "The agenda is so boring that I just can't be bothered [...]"? Gah. (someone else notices this, too.)

From another thread, the Internet is a meta-community in need of a low-impact governance; overlaid on top the the existing individual-site governances. "The partipants in the Internet have been ignoring the governance of the Internet" -- Isenberg.

Who could you take in a fight? Submit answers via email or IRC!

"Let's Get Killed" is an interesting music album, made out of recordings of New York; thanks to JC Hertz from Wired, also enjoying a bagel. I already have three of his songs from other albums, all chillout. Cool.

The table changes every time I leave it and come back. Weird.

Is Rendezvous service auto-discovery and -broadcasting beneficial? Is it useful to advertise services when you're in such a large group that you can't just ensure distribution to people close by, because you're close by a thousand people. Hm.