Yesterday, Microsoft announced a pretty cool new online service that will take the Google Documents concept to the next level: users of Live Mesh will be able to sync content from their computers, handhelds, cell phones, and potentially even their Zunes with that of other users in the same mesh, via the internet. As we understand it, the service is like an inter-office computer network, but users can upload/download content at any time and anywhere they have access to one of the "enmeshed" devices. more ›

The most important thing we brought away from the EMP Pop Conference was the name Labi Siffre, along with a link to the English musician's blog, Into The Light. This was the fruit of a moving, well-researched presentation from Charles Aaron, music editor at Spin, and we can't wait to dive deeper into Siffre's poetry and musical catalog from the 70s and 80s. Aside from that presentation and a few from the "Liminal Soul" panel, we were underwhelmed by the Conference. more ›

At this point in our learning curve, we'd rather spend our time taking a lot of photos than tweaking them to death on our MacBook Pro. Give us infinite possibilities and we're paralyzed. more ›

Evidently, the vocoder will not have its vengeance until it has reconquered all of pop music. more ›

-- "Less glare"? Better than Metronatural. more ›

You probably don't read ex-Seattle Weekly reporter Philip Dawdy's blog Furious Seasons. That's ok. That's why we're here: to read every blog in existence and let you know when something interesting happens (which turns out to be rarely). Philip writes about clinical depression and the little cottage industry of humongous corporations that have grown up around that illness. It's a well-written and well-researched blog by a guy who's been working that beat for several years, so it's pretty popular in some circles. Mixed in with the reporting on anti-depression drugs is the occasional post on Dawdy's current state of affairs. That he's not currently fully-employed as a reporter, for example, is something that you might learn from his blog. That he has some concerns about the current state of the web and its effects on print journalism (and its effects on his current employment status) from time to time, is another thing you might learn. more ›

He's not raking muck for any paper publications currently, but ex-Seattle Weekly all-star Philip Dawdy is still managing to rouse the rabble on the internet. He got noticed by Reddit.com this week after making the jump from reporting to editorializing and dissing Google, MySpace, "Web 2.0" and blogs from, uh, his blog. more ›

Something's going on at TechCrunch, the website you and 18 kajillion other Web 2.0 fans have recently become slavishly addicted to. Are they reporting on where venture capital riches go over there, or are they directing it? It's open to questioning. Anyway, TechCrunch wonderboy-in-chief Michael Arrington is not exactly AWOL right now, but he's obviously taking it down a few notches and there's a new face picking up the slack in a decidedly journalist-y manner. Don't freak out and leave twenty "TechCrunch sucks now" comments on the site. Instead, go ski. more ›

Microsoft sent out invitations to its video community website beta Soapbox on Monday and last night we got around to checking it out. The interface is awesome, the video quality is awesome and the price they paid in development is probably somewhere under what Google paid for YouTube. The content and the user base... Well, there is no content or user base. Did Microsoft ever seriously consider buying YouTube's content and user base? Check out Ballmer's Business Week interview on the subject. He thinks it's a fad and there's no business model. "Is YouTube really some permanent, long-term thing, or is it a fashion?" and "Right now, there's no business model for YouTube that would justify $1.6 billion." more ›

Seattlest is still buzzing after the wonderful Redfin-sponsored Techcrunch meetup a few weeks ago (what can we say, free pizza goes a long way). That said, we had tempered expectations regarding Tuesday's (also Redfin-sponsored) nPost networking event, but found ourselves happily surprised by how enjoyable this pure networking gathering turned out to be. more ›

Wednesday night Seattlest left the very interesting Pandora talk and headed over to ConWorks for the Redfin-sponsored Techcrunch party. The sixth such party, it was designed to bring together Seattle's individuals involved in evolving the web into its very buzzwordy Web 2.0 incarnation. While many of these "parties" are just boring schmoozefests, Seattlest held out hope that this one would be different. Luckily (for them and us) we weren't disappointed. more ›

The other morning we were sitting there in Victrola, and we looked up to see noted local web-experience fashioner Josh there in line. Well, there you go. That's how it is, being Seattlest. Finger on the frickin' pulse. more ›