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Gore on the media Al Gore talked on the Daily Show about the war and about the media, calling the internet "the single greatest source of hope that we will be able to fix what ails the conversation of democracy." Shoot I'd vote for him again, though I wonder if he could bring himself to stay as real as he seems to have become since getting out of the game. He probably prefers where he is, this place right here where people sigh and say they wish he'd run. It's not TV Michael Moore and Ron Paul will be on Bill Maher's show on HBO tonight. Aww... thanks, Kent Kent Newsome is building a new subscription list. Let me think for a day or two about some good additions to it. Thanks, and right back atcha. Got it backwards? Somebody tell me if I'm full of shit. Could very well be. Thing is, I don't care enough about Facebook to read all about it, but the two or three items I have read make it sound like the new API allows developers to make things to put inside Facebook, and that's it. Since I don't care about Facebook over much, that doesn't interest me, just like all the great stuff you can do with Salesforce.com or Second Life won't interest you if you don't care to capitalize on their existing user bases. If you want to parasitically glom on to an established community it's great, but there's greater potential for a higher level of connectedness with APIs like Google maps or Flicker or YouTube that let you bring features out of a big property on the web and put them anywhere, not the other way around. That's a big part of what the web is all about. It's definitely the greatest appeal of widgets -- taking things outside the building into the fresh air, not cramming more stuff into somebody else's big hermetically sealed office building with windows you can't open. (But everybody else seems downright giddy about helping Facebook build its property.) Later: I scrawled this out pre-7 a.m. before leaving for work this morning, worried there must be something I wasn't seeing (besides millions of FB users; I do see them). Once at work I checked my feeds and saw that Kent Newsome, who often says things I like, also was scratching his head. Then fellow smart outlinerheads Les and Dave agreed that things looked inside out, and I'm, like Whew, perhaps I'm not a moron. This time. Suggestion for Reference.com: link to other forms of the word I use the dictionary on Reference.com a lot. One small enhancement would make it a lot more useful. For example, I just checked the word "parasitically" to make sure it's a word, and glanced at the definition while I was there.
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