Wired has an interesting article in their latest issue, about 6 machines that changed the music world. Its all about how technology made to do one thing, ends up doing something completely different and at the same time makes a small revolution. Almost like some other technologies I am involved with..
Wired 10.05: Six Machines That Changed The Music World

James D. Miller writes about weblogs and their future. In many ways he talks in the same way about weblogging and indepentent writers as other have before him about free and/or open source software, claming there is no economics in weblogs. I tend to disagree, still beliving in the economics of attention, best described by Michael H. Goldhaber in Attention Shoppers! in Wired's decemeber issue 1997.

James also makes the mistake of arguing that multimedia will be the killer of weblogs, since the flashier video/sound sites will take the attention away from the regular weblogs. I think he is wrong on two fronts:

1. Text is still a killer medium, and will be for a very long time to come.
2. Bandwidth is a commodity which will only become more available in time. Hosting multimedia sites are becoming easier and easier by the day, not to mention cheaper. The launch of Sorenson's Vcast network for instance, has made hosting streaming video sites a commodity most websites can afford. And its only the beginning.

Blogging: An Economist's View

John Dowdell has picked me up on his radar, and found some of my comments about the FlashForward conference and the lack of wireless connectivity, he also linked to a very interesting article I should have mentioned here, by Esther Dyson regarding the use of Wi-Fi/Wlan at PC Forum and what it led to. (See one of my past blogs)

I really think that conferences can gain a lot from adding Wireless internet access in getting a new dynamic to them, and actually using the brain-capital available. I have a hundred ideas of how Wi-Fi/Wlan could help super charge conferences, together with the right colaboration technology..

This is great news, Samuel Wan, one of the great Flash developers that adds so much value to the Flash community has put up his own weblog. Looks like he has been at it for a little while, but he has passed by my radar screen. And now it turns out he has his weblog up and running, and not only that, he is using Moveable Type and he has made a Flash MX interface (source here) for his weblog! (Its still a prototype, so you might want to wait for the release version).

Samuel Wan : News, Information and Resources