Daily Archives: October 27th, 2005

Font blog opens up

This is cool, the font team is blogging.
Bill Hill is still my favorite interviewee and this blog is really great so far. I LOVE type. When I was in college I beta tested fonts for Adobe (and used unreleased fonts on San Jose State University’s newspaper). I can’t wait to show you the type on [...]

Scoble should be fired, author tells Microsoft

Heh, I’m getting emails from across Microsoft. Seems that Brian Fugere just told Microsoft, in a presentation on the Redmond Campus (we invite people to speak to our employees nearly every day — those speeches are recorded and streamed to every employee on our intranet), to fire me. I haven’t heard his presentation, but figured [...]

First look inside Bungie’s new offices

Mat Noguchi, a developer at Bungie, gave me a tour of their new offices and talked about some of the challenges the development team has as they develop one of the most popular video games of all time: Halo.
Thank you very much to Mat, who met me very early in the morning to do the [...]

MTV presents ‘notorious B.G.’

Bill Gates on MTV? What the heck? I’ll record that on my Slingbox!

Vint Cerf says he’s a weird old fart

Vint Cerf just said hi. He was telling me about his first day at work at Google. He wore what he called the “evangelism robes.” They are eccentric Spanish robes. He said the younger crowd at Google didn’t know how to react (they didn’t understand that he was making fun of his new role as [...]

Anil wants Flickr to pay

Interesting little debate going on the blogs this morning. Anil Dash wants Flickr to pay its users, particularly the ones who put the most popular content onto the service. Caterina, co-founder of Flickr, answers back, says more to life than money.
That sounds cool, but there certainly is a belief among mainstream big company publishers I’m [...]