Entries from May 2008

May 18, 2008

Wilco in St. Louis

I saw Wilco in St. Louis on Thursday night with Donna. It was the first of three straight nights of shows at the Pageant theater in University City. If you’re in St. Louis and didn’t get to go, they’ve recorded two of the shows and will be posting them shortly. Highly recommended.

May 18, 2008

The “news is in the noise”

Robert Scoble: “I like the noise. Why? Because I can see patterns before anyone else. I saw the Chinese earthquake happening 45 minutes before Google News reported it. Why? Because I was watching the noise, not the news.”
This is one of Scoble’s best posts since he left Microsoft. Robert is a student of journalism and [...]

May 18, 2008

Staring into a bright future

Steve Gillmor ties together a bunch of disconnected thoughts, ideas and trends in a post that snidely refers to Bill Gates getting a gold watch and retiring. Steve is a savant of sorts. He spots patterns and trends that others can’t see but struggles to articulate why they’re there and what they’ll lead to.
But there [...]