Bruce Lerner

Today's NGL closed abruptly during a discussion on the relative value of Twitter vs. other enterprise applications as a rebuttal to the statement that Twitter is the "most important enterprise application of our time".

Jon Udell interviews Phil Libin - CEO, EverNote on Interviews with Innovators.
Evernote is a company/service providing long-term web-based storage for your memories. Indexes/searches your entries.

And he needs yours.

Help Protect Open Source software.

Debates, Democracy and Two-Way Conversations - at Karoli's "Bang the Drum" blog

Bret Taylor & Paul Buchheit - Co-Founders, FriendFeed Introduction Read Write Talk podcast

Today's NewsGang (at least the 2nd half) discussed controls (programatic, regulatory, awareness) to maintain personal information.
My interpretation of the discussion topic is that either:

As I write this (2008.03.02), I've been a twitter user for about 2 weeks and I've just embarrased myself with Steve Gillmor on NewsGang Live.
So, I decided to do some homework and share with the class. I'm normally ok with new tools, but with twitter, there's been a disconnect.

The following are some observations of the technology thread in the 2/26 episode. The discussion is one that I broached a few calls ago that didn't grow legs but came back with greater focus and a more eloquent opponent to Steve's argument.

23,000 wrote the FCC over the last 3 months to drive the FCC to investigate Comcast’s blocking of particular network traffic. A number of organizations have spearheaded this drive, but only 23,000 rose to the challenge. Let your friends know you are aware of this situation and have an opinion. Provide feedback to the FCC. Let them know that you want your internet to remain free and open. Act now to save the internet at: save the internet
Organizations that support your rights:

I just ran into the need for a podcatcher that supports authentication which my workhorse bashpodder doesn’t support (at least I don’t know about it). What I found is Icepodder, which I installed and ran with no problem. I’ll keep bashpodder running with cron for my daily downloads, but when I need authentication - Icepodder.