Even Ballmer can’t get into Gnomedex…

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It's sold out. So is BlogHer. So is BloggerCon.

Hmm, something is happening here.

Oh, Ballmer isn't the only one that doesn't see the new media power that's being built. Apple told its open source geeks to pound sand.

Someone at VLoggerCon said "individuals are now in charge" of what's important in the world.

I wouldn't tell ANYONE to pound sand in this world.

A kid in Australia with five readers can become an international media story now just by writing something on his blog.

Who knew what beet.tv was before Saturday? I didn't.

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52 thoughts on “Even Ballmer can’t get into Gnomedex…”

  1. I thought you were into calling people to find out what’s going on.

    Evidently, that’s only where you’re concerned?

    If you read something BESIDES Yager, you would find out that there’s components in the kernel – layer code of the Intel builds of OS X that is NOT able to be open source, and that’s why it’s not been released yet. In fact, one of Apple’s open source leaders, Ernest Prahbankar said that it’s not opened up for *now*. There’s nothing been decided permanently yet at all.

    Maybe you should ask someone BESIDES Yager on this?

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  2. I thought you were into calling people to find out what’s going on.

    Evidently, that’s only where you’re concerned?

    If you read something BESIDES Yager, you would find out that there’s components in the kernel – layer code of the Intel builds of OS X that is NOT able to be open source, and that’s why it’s not been released yet. In fact, one of Apple’s open source leaders, Ernest Prahbankar said that it’s not opened up for *now*. There’s nothing been decided permanently yet at all.

    Maybe you should ask someone BESIDES Yager on this?

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  5. John: I said “call if you’re breaking news.”

    I didn’t break this news. It was reported by a legitimate “professional” news organization. I just linked to it. If you have a problem with the claims there, go see InfoWorld.

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  6. John: I said “call if you’re breaking news.”

    I didn’t break this news. It was reported by a legitimate “professional” news organization. I just linked to it. If you have a problem with the claims there, go see InfoWorld.

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  7. Chris: not a thing. But they can break a news story just as big as anything Walt Mossberg can break now.

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  8. Chris: not a thing. But they can break a news story just as big as anything Walt Mossberg can break now.

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  9. I agree with the first poster somewhat. At any time any blogger can post anything he/she wants and it can get picked up as a meme and spread like wildfire without checking any facts first. Especially if that person is higher up on the blogger list. Hard news is still being done by profesional journlist types. News Media print, online and television is still where everyone turns for news.

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  10. I agree with the first poster somewhat. At any time any blogger can post anything he/she wants and it can get picked up as a meme and spread like wildfire without checking any facts first. Especially if that person is higher up on the blogger list. Hard news is still being done by profesional journlist types. News Media print, online and television is still where everyone turns for news.

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  11. Jonathan: You’re right. Especially click whores like Dvorak who spew crap to get site visits. 🙂

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  12. Jonathan: You’re right. Especially click whores like Dvorak who spew crap to get site visits. 🙂

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  19. that’s a nice illussion of being in charge…

    and yes, even kid in australia can be forgotten in a day or two…

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  21. that’s a nice illussion of being in charge…

    and yes, even kid in australia can be forgotten in a day or two…

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  23. The Yager story has just done the rounds and been re-syndicated again. It’s a non-issue and frankly I believe the people at Apple I’ve spoken to more than a sensationalist headline.

    Come on Robert, you can still continue at doing what we like you doing – be a technology evangelist rather than a headline grabber. Your love of technology – that’s what we came here for. (and yes, it showed through even though you were the Spawn of Redmond). Add some content here! Pick up the phone. Ernie would talk to you 🙂

    I never want to have to say “Scoble, man, you used to be cool!” 😉

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  24. The Yager story has just done the rounds and been re-syndicated again. It’s a non-issue and frankly I believe the people at Apple I’ve spoken to more than a sensationalist headline.

    Come on Robert, you can still continue at doing what we like you doing – be a technology evangelist rather than a headline grabber. Your love of technology – that’s what we came here for. (and yes, it showed through even though you were the Spawn of Redmond). Add some content here! Pick up the phone. Ernie would talk to you 🙂

    I never want to have to say “Scoble, man, you used to be cool!” 😉

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  27. Hey, isn’t that Chris “Who the *** is This Clown” Pirillo, you’re linking to, there, Rob ;)?

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  28. Hey, isn’t that Chris “Who the *** is This Clown” Pirillo, you’re linking to, there, Rob ;)?

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  31. “A kid in Australia with five readers can become an international media story now just by writing something on his blog.”
    Exactly and Blog indeed is saving girl with rotting leg in China (Blog saves girl with rotting leg).
    (http://www.chinadaily.com.cn/china/2006-06/13/content_615034.htm)

    I am quoting here from that news:
    “She had never used a computer before, and she had no idea what a blog was.

    But it was this online innovation she knew nothing about that helped save her life.
    …………………………
    Soaring medical costs made it impossible for her family to help her, even as her leg was decomposing. Hope seemed lost.

    But because of a blogger, Li Guozhong, her story did not end there.

    Li, an amateur photographer from Hunan, was the first to report Chen’s condition on his blog on May 24.
    ……………………………………..
    Li could not bear to stand idle. Knowing he could not save the girl on his own, he resorted to the online blog he had just launched.

    “Please lend this girl a hand,” the 49-year-old office-bearer wrote. “Her left trouser leg was tucked up, revealing a piece of white bone from her knee to her ankle Fluid was seeping out. The air was stagnant with flies buzzing around I could hardly hold back my tears.”
    Li’s article, together with a series of photos of the girl, triggered a wide response.”
    That’s is the power of new media. Ignore it at your own peril.
    Thanks Robert for your entry.

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  32. “A kid in Australia with five readers can become an international media story now just by writing something on his blog.”
    Exactly and Blog indeed is saving girl with rotting leg in China (Blog saves girl with rotting leg).
    (http://www.chinadaily.com.cn/china/2006-06/13/content_615034.htm)

    I am quoting here from that news:
    “She had never used a computer before, and she had no idea what a blog was.

    But it was this online innovation she knew nothing about that helped save her life.
    …………………………
    Soaring medical costs made it impossible for her family to help her, even as her leg was decomposing. Hope seemed lost.

    But because of a blogger, Li Guozhong, her story did not end there.

    Li, an amateur photographer from Hunan, was the first to report Chen’s condition on his blog on May 24.
    ……………………………………..
    Li could not bear to stand idle. Knowing he could not save the girl on his own, he resorted to the online blog he had just launched.

    “Please lend this girl a hand,” the 49-year-old office-bearer wrote. “Her left trouser leg was tucked up, revealing a piece of white bone from her knee to her ankle Fluid was seeping out. The air was stagnant with flies buzzing around I could hardly hold back my tears.”
    Li’s article, together with a series of photos of the girl, triggered a wide response.”
    That’s is the power of new media. Ignore it at your own peril.
    Thanks Robert for your entry.

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  41. Serge: the most interesting events to me are ones that build experiences. I always learn something. But I like the MindCamp/FooCamp/BARCamp model best.

    My schedule is in disarray.

    These three conferences aren’t very expensive to attend, well, Gnomedex costs $500, but the others are less.

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  42. Serge: the most interesting events to me are ones that build experiences. I always learn something. But I like the MindCamp/FooCamp/BARCamp model best.

    My schedule is in disarray.

    These three conferences aren’t very expensive to attend, well, Gnomedex costs $500, but the others are less.

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  43. “Apple told its open source geeks to pound sand.”

    No, it didn’t. They questioned Yager’s motivation for pushing a story which had been around for a year. They questioned who in his audience care or questioned (he never says anyone but himself). They questioned his assertions that academia amd enterprise were “tinkering” with the x86 Mac kernel when no enterprise/server hardware exists yet. They questioned his integrity when the true tinkerers are participating in the mail lists which have addressed the same issue several times.

    Apple’s open source “geeks” read Apple’s mail lists, not Tom Yager.

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  44. “Apple told its open source geeks to pound sand.”

    No, it didn’t. They questioned Yager’s motivation for pushing a story which had been around for a year. They questioned who in his audience care or questioned (he never says anyone but himself). They questioned his assertions that academia amd enterprise were “tinkering” with the x86 Mac kernel when no enterprise/server hardware exists yet. They questioned his integrity when the true tinkerers are participating in the mail lists which have addressed the same issue several times.

    Apple’s open source “geeks” read Apple’s mail lists, not Tom Yager.

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  45. Blimey, you tell John C Welch that Apple did something bad in even the slightest way and its full-on curling-up-into-a-ball screaming “no no no no no no Apple cannot do anything wrong! Its perfect, everyone who uses Apple products is a Saint, if only the church would be so enlightened, they are all GODS at Apple. no no no no no mummy please make them stop saying bad things”.

    You’re a weird nutcase, Welch.

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  46. Blimey, you tell John C Welch that Apple did something bad in even the slightest way and its full-on curling-up-into-a-ball screaming “no no no no no no Apple cannot do anything wrong! Its perfect, everyone who uses Apple products is a Saint, if only the church would be so enlightened, they are all GODS at Apple. no no no no no mummy please make them stop saying bad things”.

    You’re a weird nutcase, Welch.

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  47. Vloggercon – check.
    BlogHer – check.
    Gnomedex – no thanks.

    Gnomedex reads like the usual suspects, and I have already seen most of these people speak. I can’t imagine anything that new, that they have not said on their blogs, or that I cannot just talk to them about (well, the ones I care to talk to). I do love that Weatherbug is a sponsor, though. Irony is so fun.

    There are still sponsorships. I am sure if you sponsor, you get in.

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  48. Vloggercon – check.
    BlogHer – check.
    Gnomedex – no thanks.

    Gnomedex reads like the usual suspects, and I have already seen most of these people speak. I can’t imagine anything that new, that they have not said on their blogs, or that I cannot just talk to them about (well, the ones I care to talk to). I do love that Weatherbug is a sponsor, though. Irony is so fun.

    There are still sponsorships. I am sure if you sponsor, you get in.

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  49. Cider, the ignorance in that statement is astounding. I suggest you spend a little time reading my stuff, and see how i have no problem slapping apple over the things they do that are stupid.

    However, a little research shows that in the Intel builds, there’s code at the kernel level that Apple cannot open source. So they don’t, and without the kernel – level stuff, well, there’s a lot that you can’t do, so there’s not a lot of point in releasing a broken distro now is there? No, didn’t think so.

    As well, with 10.4, since the Intel and PPC code is still separate, that would essentially require two complete releases, one per platform. Pain in the arse.

    10.5/Leopard will merge the code into a single release, (this was posted by Apple personnel on a few mailing lists), so that will take care of the second problem, and hopefully, the encumbered code issue will be handled by then as well. From what i’ve read on the various Darwin lists, it’s not a *lot* of code, but just enough, and it’s not optional code either.

    Anything else Cider? Or would you like to continue ignoring the facts?

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  50. Cider, the ignorance in that statement is astounding. I suggest you spend a little time reading my stuff, and see how i have no problem slapping apple over the things they do that are stupid.

    However, a little research shows that in the Intel builds, there’s code at the kernel level that Apple cannot open source. So they don’t, and without the kernel – level stuff, well, there’s a lot that you can’t do, so there’s not a lot of point in releasing a broken distro now is there? No, didn’t think so.

    As well, with 10.4, since the Intel and PPC code is still separate, that would essentially require two complete releases, one per platform. Pain in the arse.

    10.5/Leopard will merge the code into a single release, (this was posted by Apple personnel on a few mailing lists), so that will take care of the second problem, and hopefully, the encumbered code issue will be handled by then as well. From what i’ve read on the various Darwin lists, it’s not a *lot* of code, but just enough, and it’s not optional code either.

    Anything else Cider? Or would you like to continue ignoring the facts?

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