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new phrase: puppy leave.

I'm disappointed that I couldn't be at eTech, but I'm enjoying the coverage. It sounds like Joe Trippi's speech [notes by Howard Rheingold] about the Dean campaign and the web was inspiring. And I'm keeping an eye on the eTech wiki.

There is the serious danger that this weblog will turn into a puppyblog for a while. Here are a couple more pictures:





And another at Matt's photo site. She's an eight-week old Miniature Australian Shepherd.

There's a new creature in our house...





The cat is not amused.

I'm a little late linking to the party, but check out this great essay explaining how weblogs are like punk: Never Mind the Bullocks, Here's the Wonderchicken. [via Blogroots]

From a walk earlier tonight...

IEEE article on Web Services: The Web Within the Web. You may even spot a quote from me in there.

Everyone else is doing it, why can't I? Here's a map of the states I've visited. Looks like I need to get to the East and South to bring my percentage up. And then there's Idaho. You can create your own at World66. Here are some other people with maps. meme ahoy!

I went to a meeting of the Corvallis chapter of the Software Association of Oregon tonight. A couple of people who owned a local company called Green Pasture Software (cached copy—site now redirects) spoke about selling the company to IBM. They told some great fish-out-of-water stories about small town software guys negotiating with big blue, and had some general business advice. Overall it was great to meet some people and hear a bit of what's going on with tech in Corvallis.

Matt and I brought SXSWblog out of its slumber for its fourth year in action. I still have some tweaking to do, but most of the pages are now working with Matt's new design. If you're going to South by Southwest Interactive (or thinking about it) stop by to discuss sxsw, ask questions, read notes, or see some photos from last year. If you have a weblog, feel free to send a trackback the site when you post about SXSW. (Or you could set up a SXSW category in MT and have your blog ping SXSWblog automatically.) Yep, geeky fun in Austin is only a month and a half away!

Over at Blogroots, the trackbacks (blogpopuli) and local posts (blognews) are now combined into one stream of information. We don't believe crossing the streams will result in total protonic reversal.