Caught Live on the Scobleizer Qik-Cast

At Hollywood and Highland, Outside Community Next conference, which is oddly being held in a nightclub, in a mall.

UPDATE: Check out my interview with Scoble, where I drill him on everything from the iinevitability of Microhoo to ideas on the next Twitter… HERE.

In the first video, I show off my Sierra Wireless 881U AirCard for AT&T that I just picked up. Hopefully bandwidth won’t be an issue when I use this, *ahem* but I’vebeen very impressed with it’s 1-2Mbps down and 1Mb up speeds on AT&T’s 3G network and it’s Mac compatibility. All I really want for Christmas is an N95 (or 96) but they don’t appear to be falling from the sky at H&H. Not yet at least.


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Twitter Updates for 2008-03-28

  • without warning, Live365 emails me to say I now have to pay 50% more monthly AND shorten my broadcast? Where’s my founding VIP treatment, yo #
  • escaping office / computer trance to check out Dealmaker LA and then to the Brewery for MindShare. yay. http://www.labrewery.org/mindshare #
  • DoD accidentally sent ballistics to Taiwan. But TSA wont let nipple piercings fly. good lookin out, U.S. #
  • At Mindshare, wishing there was pizza. Inspired, but hungry. And all the girls are barefoot. #
  • @rizwank pls drive safe. U stink, my fault! #
  • @caseymckinnon ouch! one lesson from the Jewish tradition would be to put the glasses in a paper or canvas bag before smashing 😉 #
  • ugh lots of work email to parse — slowly but surely making my way down to Berkman media re:public @ Annenberg. Missing Castells tho 🙁 #
  • @kthread thats BS. file a complaint and raise hell at tsa.gov/blog #
  • @sloane @mashable and also twiistup at A/C after dinn3r (or for some, Zittrain @ hhill). Get social! #
  • looking at lots of blurry dots in a preso. feels like a vision test. and y’know, @digidave kinda does look like his mickeymouse digg avatar #
  • Marc Cooper: the pro-am approach allows for better reporting, audience, and precision. independent AND accurate. Generate debate. #
  • Lunch with Southside Torey Malatia and Jon Taplin. Talkin econ of npr/pbs and cost-revs of multiplatform distribution. quietly missing 848. #
  • listening to large future of news panel w/ @zittrain, @lisawilliams, @solana, @digidave and others. @zittrain opens with Simpsons joke. heh. #
  • @rhetor it’s a Berkman Center event in conjunction with ASC http://tinyurl.com/226zrx #
  • Lisa Williams: "Journalism will survive the death or transformation of its major institutions… GOOG + NYT same ind." (viva la revolucion)! #
  • @lisawilliams’ slides @MRForum: http://flickr.com/photos/lisawilliams/ #
  • Doc Searls says nobody has blogged about VRMproject’s relbutton icon. a microformat for customer/vendor http://rurl.org/mbk #

Google Maps’ Streetview [Nearly] Completes LA

Per Zach’s post at LAist, I can now find my house on Google Streetview:

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The quality of the images are much better too — here’s a great example of how ridiculous it is that my street is one-way: look at what the mailman has to do to get out the way of the Googmobile!

They did miss a couple of the smaller dead-end streets near me, but still — very cool. Now all I want is to be able to embed real-time traffic overlays!