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This is funny, I saw the original post pointing out the Chicago police website, then made the same connection that Steven Levitt did: In my last post, I talked about how Chicago police have begun posting pictures on the internet of johns caught soliciting prostitutes. Based on the numbers given in a Chicago Tribune article,…

This is pretty cool… Adam Curry is doing his concluding keynote as his 200th “Daily Source Code” live. Adam’s being very gracious, talking about a lot of the sources of inspiration that got podcasting to where it is today. Is it news that Apple’s creating a namespace for podcasts? (Update: Not really.) Great discussion of…

Buzz, Denise, and Jason are leading the discussion on legal issues relating to blogging and technology. I had lunch with Denise, who mentioned that Buzz was reinstalling Windows prior to the presentation (a bizarre pre-presentation ritual?), but it looks like the machine got its issues straightened out, as they’re leading the presentation using MindManager. Funny…

Steve Rubel and his client, Chris Sloop (CTO at WeatherBug) are talking about WeatherBug’s ongoing struggle to overcome a bad business decision 4 years ago (a distribution deal with Gator, a known spyware distributor). Jeff’s got CDs of WeatherBug Plus in the back (I just installed it, holy cow — it’s 96 degrees back home…

Julie Leung is giving a fascinating presentation about the boundaries of personal and professional writing, involving family without exposing them, maintaining balance between what’s hidden and what’s revealed. I love her technique of using photos to illustrate her points, rather than the standard three bullet slides. It’s powerful, and forces you to listen to what…

I’m two rows behind P.T. of Make Magazine, and his rotary cell phone is on the table next to him. It’s a funny, clever little hack. And it really works. I hear some people got copies of Make in their swag bag… which makes me wonder why I didn’t get one… I hear it’s a…

So it turns out that yesterday’s connectivity problems were due in part to someone sending a live video feed from their laptop. Good Lord.

Given the horrendous connectivity problems throughout the day, I chose not to do any real-time note-taking during the sessions. Some random observations: Dave’s OPML app is cool. I remember when I first “got” the outliner built into Radio a few years ago and getting really excited about it, and I documented how I managed my…

Spotty wifi is conspiring to force all of us in the room to (gasp!) pay attention. I feel bad for Dave, whose demo requires net access… memo to conference planners: get the speakers a wire. Don’t make them dependent on the stability of the wifi connection.

It’s raining men. If ever there were a need for gender equality, it’s this conference.