Podcast Industry Validation; Choice, Beautiful Choice

Disruptions 2005 (pic) today was good fun, many thanks to our moderator Hank Barry, and copanelists David Thomas, VP/General Manager of the SIIA's Software Division, and Glenn Magala, VP and CIO at Atari. Thanks too to Deloitte for a great event, still in progress.

A couple of notes to the Gillmor Gang (who've touched on both subjects recently) from my travels today:

• There's an article in Southwest Airlines Spirit Magazine about techie trucker Tom Wiles. Too bad it's not online, but his blog and podcast are.


• Yeah, the Internet operating system is just about here. My tidbit of proof: blogging from Oakland Airport's Laptop Lane; traveling light today, no computer, but they've got 'em if you need 'em. All I need is a browser to check in and get things done, and the icing on the cake are the options you're given when checking in: "IE, Firefox, or AOL?" Ahh...

From Open Origins

A reader emailed to point out that Apple now seeks to trademark "iPodcast". It's interesting and important to bear in mind that the whole burgeoning podcasting industry — it's got conferences, venture capital, trade publications, business models, it's an industry — grows directly from open source and Creative Commons licensed roots.

Speaking of Disruptions, that's where I'll be this afternoon. Greetings and welcome to any first time B&B visitors from there.

Remaking The Grade

Matt Homann rethinks law school, in part by assigning a key role to RethinkIP: "I'd also farm out the entire Intellectual Property department to the ReThink(IP) guys (who'd find a way to deliver their grades via RSS)."

Next Stop OED

Wikipedia on blawgers.

Splog World

Google's beta blog search hasn't quite got the whole spam blog situation solved yet.