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Short attention span theater with Sony cutting Charlie's Angels into small bits. A friend of mine created some short versions of the A-Team which were very funny but he thought that the idea would run into the rights issues that Sony being the studio versus the network seems to be avoiding.  Still the music rights could jump up and bite them. Anytime you take something and cut it into  say 403 new products everyone wants a cut.

Calcanis posts new link baiting rules

Jason Calcanis, the charming and controversial Brooklyn born martial arts black belt, and Internet journalism pioneer (knew him years ago when he hung out an at agency I worked at) publishes  a list of tips on how to get him to link to your blog. (via TechMeme)

one one thousand, two one thousand, three one thousand, four one thousand,...... oh I forgot to add, thinner than ever.

Back in Dec I linked to an app that had Alec Baldwin put a message on your phone to promote 30 Rock.  you can listen to the message courtesy of TV Squad. Some irony given his more recent phone message. 

Our drive up Rt 1 - LA to SF

I've been creating a Google Map of our trip up the coast. I really love MyMaps. My only real complaint is that I can't reorder the placemarks to make a linear account of our drive but no matter you can click on the placemarks if you want to start at the beginning.

I've also just realized that you can search for addresses and then add those to your map. I expect this trip log to grow.

The text of a speech Rham Emanuel gave today at The Brookings Institution " it's a broad indictment of the Bush administration that argues that all-pervasive partisanship, not incompetence, is the common thread linking all of the administration's manifold failings." (via Talking Points Memo)

Odds that life exists on other planets cut to 100-1 from 1000-1

Outside.in redesign

Outside.in redesign launched a redesign and lists the top 10 bloggiest neighborhoods. I'd  like to see a longer list.  Clinton Hill takes first place. Brownstoner certainly is prolific. (via kottke.org)

Earth day in Prospect Park involves a lot of cars

It seems in order to celebrate Earth Day it is necessary to enlist a lot of cars, trucks, large plastic play areas, electronic equipment, and a number of extra park employees to route joggers and cyclists around the cars. Arghh.

Earlier in the week, I bought carbon offsets for our recent trip to California (which will soon be online as a Google MyMap), my car, and our apartment from Terrapass. I really like the concept and the service. They have several calculators which let you know how much carbon dioxide you are putting out and then recommend plans to offset it.  I feel good about this and it makes sense to do something on a personal level until market forces take hold for things much bigger. Here is a really nice post from have fun do good that explains what carbon offsets are and how to judge the different companies vying to help you help the planet.

Google's logo for the day spreads the message to millions.

View from Nepenthe

View from Nepenthe
Originally uploaded by bromptonman.

Back from vacation, where I was offline and unable to share the amazing scenery we drove through on our Rt 1 road trip from LA to SF. This is a view from Big Sur. I'm putting together a mymaps version with some key stops.

Video of the NY Tech Meetup

Link to video from last Tuesday's NY Tech Meetup. I had to miss it because of a meeting with my landlady. While we may have a new stove, oven, and backyard fence coming I was still sorry to miss it. So thanks to Rich for sending me the link. One note though that this only seems to work on a IE on a PC. I want to see the flickrcash, and collegewiki apps. There was also a great mashup from DayLife. As a inside highlight for those who know and love him, Mark  Graham was visiting from CA and sure enough as is his way, he asked the first question.

Google's MyMaps

Google Maps MyMaps - Stealing a great deal of thunder from Platial's Mapmaker, Google introduces a make a map feature. Just beginning to play with it but am really impressed. Here is what Platial has to say about it on their blog.

This morning Google launched MyMaps and with typical blogospheric drama (which I adore) predictions of the fall of mash-ups were made. Here's my take...

This kind of disruption was inevitable.
There is a rapidly growing geospatial web and they have in many ways elevated the importance of it.

While no entrepreneur is excited about potentially competing with Google, it had to happen. This is an indicator of something very interesting in new kinds of collaborative business models. For example; apis in and out and remixing. There are a number of friend/foe relationships that spring up when you have alliances and markets with rapidly evolving needs. Our business will be disrupted too in some ways but it was time.

We needed a new conversation to get us beyond the limiting concept of mash-ups. A year ago many of our services looked the same but now you see differentiation start to emerge. As well Google has (for now) carved a small/clear piece of this and hasn't entered into the community aspects. For now, we need to count ourselves among the Google friend/foes which are rapidly increasing!

They haven't (yet) touched the core of our business model, audience or product path. So, here we go onward (but faster and better). :)

They also have some criticism off the new product. I had always thought that Platial would just be bought by Google.

I have a small one as well. It won't let you embed   audio or video (at least I can't figure out how). I signed up with Hipcast this morning so I could create a tour of the Tenderloin putting up the CityReads tracks we recorded three years ago, but it won't let me embed their player.

This morning Google launched MyMaps and with typical blogospheric drama (which I adore) predictions of the fall of mash-ups were made. Here's my take...

This kind of disruption was inevitable.
There is a rapidly growing geospatial web and they have in many ways elevated the importance of it.

While no entrepreneur is excited about potentially competing with Google, it had to happen. This is an indicator of something very interesting in new kinds of collaborative business models. For example; apis in and out and remixing. There are a number of friend/foe relationships that spring up when you have alliances and markets with rapidly evolving needs. Our business will be disrupted too in some ways but it was time.

We needed a new conversation to get us beyond the limiting concept of mash-ups. A year ago many of our services looked the same but now you see differentiation start to emerge. As well Google has (for now) carved a small/clear piece of this and hasn't entered into the community aspects. For now, we need to count ourselves among the Google friend/foes which are rapidly increasing!

They haven't (yet) touched the core of our business model, audience or product path. So, here we go onward (but faster and better). :)

They also have some criticism off the new product. I had always thought that Platial would just be bought by Google.

I have a small one as well. It won't let you embed   audio or video (at least I can't figure out how). I signed up with Hipcast this morning so I could create a tour of the Tenderloin putting up the CityReads tracks we recorded three years ago, but it won't let me embed their player.

Something is amiss with this template. If anyone has an idea please let me know. In the meantime I've asked for some tech support.

Parking nirvana

Like a rare solar eclipse a confluence of events has caused alternate street parking in NY to be suspended for crucial days allowing me to find a spot that will be good for the next two weeks. The NYT has a nice article about it.

Couples Baby Showers

Couples Baby Showers This article is written by JD Lasica. I had no idea that the such a huge champion of citizen journalism was in an earlier life the Managing Editor of babycenter.com

A life documented as a series of pie-charts - fantastic (via Kottke)

Trump keeps his hair. Did anyone think this wouldn't turn out this way?

(Hmm - two wrestling posts in a row. Now back to our regular programming.)

R.I.P Hebrew Hercules

NYT obituary of Abe Colman age 101, a professional wrestler, known as the Hebrew Hercules. 5'3" 200+ pounds, drop kick copied from kangeroos. At his 100th birthday party, The Queens Chronicle said that a nephew asked him if he wanted to wrestle, “Get my tights and jockstrap,” the Hebrew Hercules growled.