Friday, July 21, 2006
Will YouTube eat the Tube? (Monday's Yi-Tan call)
We're up to episode 94 of our weekly Yi-Tan tech community calls, and this coming Monday's promises to be extra fun: we'll be mulling the effects of YouTube, which now draws 100 million visits and 60,000 uploads a day.
Read the call description (with some fun links) here, and ping me if you'd like the call-in info. (I'd like to keep it from Web crawlers.)
Read the call description (with some fun links) here, and ping me if you'd like the call-in info. (I'd like to keep it from Web crawlers.)
Tuesday, July 18, 2006
My life's story? Ask Gordon Cook
Gordon Cook has long been a thoughtful, connected and prolific writer on the telecom scene. His Cook Report on the Internet (not to be confused with the Cook Political Report) chronicles the inside games of telecom as well as its offers, politics and market forces.
A few weeks back, Gordon took the time to interview me at length, then write up the results for his newsletter. With the luxury of some time to talk and an interviewer who didn't have an agenda but was instead interested in hearing what was going on in my head (beside the voices that control me), the resulting interview nicely reflects how I got where I am and what I care about. Thanks, Gordon.
Now he's put that interview on his new consulting site. (My story's in the sidebar, with a link to the full text below the intro.) Or you can follow this direct link.
A few weeks back, Gordon took the time to interview me at length, then write up the results for his newsletter. With the luxury of some time to talk and an interviewer who didn't have an agenda but was instead interested in hearing what was going on in my head (beside the voices that control me), the resulting interview nicely reflects how I got where I am and what I care about. Thanks, Gordon.
Now he's put that interview on his new consulting site. (My story's in the sidebar, with a link to the full text below the intro.) Or you can follow this direct link.
Tuesday, July 11, 2006
Chilavert! or, What was Zidane thinking?
I really enjoyed the World Cup games, which ended for me with two memorable bits.
The first is the exclamation "Chilavert!," shouted by one of the game announcers on Univision, which I was watching instead of ESPN's milquetoast coverage.
I'd never heard of Chilavert, but it turns out he was a goalie in Paraguay, famous for being especially good at shooting penalty kicks. The games are over, but I still hear a joyously shouted "Chilaveeer!" echoing in my head.
The other memorable bit was the now-iconic head-butt that Zidane launched in the final game (FIFA is trying to remove it from online video sites, so it's a moving target, but a search like this should turn it up).
What got in his brain? In the last ten minutes of overtime of the biggest game in the soccer world, the last game of his normal professional career, a billion-plus people watching, he goes and does something so blatant that it still amazes us in replays.
He's been playing forever, earning a reputation as a classy, solid player -- one of the best of his generation. Surely he didn't expect to be off camera. He knows that the other guy's job is to goad, cajole and insult if he thinks it'll get him off balance somehow. That can't be unusual to him. And yet he blows his reputation in the last minutes of his last match. Sad, and weird.
Fortunately, the Net has been riffing wonderfully on the headbutt.
The first is the exclamation "Chilavert!," shouted by one of the game announcers on Univision, which I was watching instead of ESPN's milquetoast coverage.
I'd never heard of Chilavert, but it turns out he was a goalie in Paraguay, famous for being especially good at shooting penalty kicks. The games are over, but I still hear a joyously shouted "Chilaveeer!" echoing in my head.
The other memorable bit was the now-iconic head-butt that Zidane launched in the final game (FIFA is trying to remove it from online video sites, so it's a moving target, but a search like this should turn it up).
What got in his brain? In the last ten minutes of overtime of the biggest game in the soccer world, the last game of his normal professional career, a billion-plus people watching, he goes and does something so blatant that it still amazes us in replays.
He's been playing forever, earning a reputation as a classy, solid player -- one of the best of his generation. Surely he didn't expect to be off camera. He knows that the other guy's job is to goad, cajole and insult if he thinks it'll get him off balance somehow. That can't be unusual to him. And yet he blows his reputation in the last minutes of his last match. Sad, and weird.
Fortunately, the Net has been riffing wonderfully on the headbutt.
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