Day: <span>June 16, 2002</span>

Simon Fell has a new toy — blogToaster. “…start a chat session, enter “add http://www.pocketsoap.com/weblog/” and hit enter, repeat with all the URL’s of the weblogs you want to get notified about. enter “list” to see the list of URL’s you’ve registered. When BlogToaster picks up a change from weblogs.com of a URL you’ve registered, it’ll send you a message.”

George Carlin. “I’m not concerned about all hell breaking loose, but that a PART of hell will break loose… it’ll be much harder to detect.”

Cory Doctorow: It’s a small, mad, mad, small, mad, small (wireless) world. “Doc Searls is in London, wandering the streets, looking for a cafe close to an open 802.11b access-point. Having found one, he sits down, has a cup of coffee and starts to blog. A few minutes later, two British geeks sit nearby him, talking about “access.” Wait a sec, sez Doc to himself — I know that guy!…”