I want to use Skype to record interviews. In twenty years I may have half of Lydon's skill. We can always do analog recording, but the client (or programmer's interface) should allow all parties to save the conversation to disk. MP3, cvp.

I should be able to initiate or stop this at any time before or during the call.

Either party should be able to block recording. The Veto button.

Indicate the call is being recorded by at least one party.

Permit routing of the audio stream to a third-party recording service.

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I call Mary by looking up her profile on the network. When Mary's Skype rings, she sees who's calling. I want anonymity or pseudonymity. I need the freedom associated with calling from a pay phone or blocking caller ID.

A privacy proxy will hide my profile (until I'm ready to reveal it) and hide my IP address.

building on the Skype moment: Start a call : Calling .

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Skype knows when I'm available to take calls. Let me share that.

Expose user status to other programs.

• Ehanced blogrolls, showing not only who's posted lately, but who's online.
• Newsreaders that show author status next to the posts I'm reading.
• An near-realtime status icon on my blog, so you know if I'm available.
• Integration with IM clients, so we can see if buddies are skypeready.

Skyperolls should be sharable. I'd want to be able to merge skyperolls.

Make available Skyperoll Me links: click to add a person to one of your skyperolls.

Roland Tanglao turned me on to Jon Husband's blog. Jon sees blogging and the web with an Organization Design eye. He's chronicalling the transition of orgs from hierarchy to Wirearchy.  A weekly read if management science, industrial organization, organization structure, social architecture, social software, corporate sociology, or social network analysis affect your work. Jon's definition of Wirearchy. 

Jon, your work is important to everyone committed to enterprise blogging. Blog on.

As long as we're talking about sound, I want scheduled text-to-speech conversion of pre-selected RSS feeds. Speak them into an MP3 file. Automatically download them to an iPod for offline listening at the gym or during a commute. Feeds become folders, posts become files, to help with navigation.

While you're doing it, check the RSS feeds for audio enclosures. Download those too.

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Post data flows through the blogosphere, originating in one blog, continuing in others. So you need two levels of geocoding:

• posts (about the content) and
• channels (about the publication).

Both need to flow through syndication systems (RSS) so aggregators find them and publishing systems (html) so Google does too.

Google Labs pilot Search by Location reads web pages to guess at location. How good is it?

Things I might want in Cambridge, Mass:

• Pizza. Bertucci's, Angelo's, Pinocchio's.
• Blogs (not enough signal for the noise)
• Guide to Problematical Library Use
• number20
• News-le-Grand
• Eastgate Systems, source of Storyspace, Tekka , and the Tinderbox cms.
• Spicy Noodles. Cafe China, Changsho, Shilla, Ma Soba
• Police. Harvard's, Belmont's Tuft's, the Cambridge police blotter
• Shoe store. City Sports, Sola for Men.

Pretty good for general content (except for porn), but the blog results were horrible. Google seems to ignore geocoding in meta tags or in sidebars. So if I'm blogging in Knoxville about a political protest in Atlanta, Google thinks I'm in Atlanta, until I blog about someplace else. In the United States, Google is very aware of zip codes.

This becomes very important for three business blogging applications:

1. Customer blog networks.
2. Retail blog networks.
3. Intranet blog networks.

Customer weblog networks are where you issue a weblog for each customer. This may be a private blog ("Tell me how you feel about our working relationship without the world knowing.") or a public service blog ("You're a rocker, we're a record label, blog on!"). How was that concert last night? Is there a pattern of poor customer service near our Winetka store?

Retail blog networks are where you issue a weblog to each of your field locations instead of a boring web page. You have a chain of 500 weight loss centers. Roll out blogs to each, substituting nearby human voices and faces for your corporate polish. That's the point of retail anyway, isn't it? But customers need to find the local content and Google is their tool.

Intranet blog networks are largely invisible to Google. Again, you have two views of interest.

• Looking outside. Do you leave the building? Do your blog posts contain customer, competitor, regulatory, supplier, or other external data? Geocoding may prove useful.
• Looking inside. Are your operations spread out? Are you sprawling across multiple floors in an office building, buildings in a complex or campus, multiple cities or countries? How are your people reacting to a natural disaster? What are people at the plant writing about the pending merger?

Location is often proxy for other measures of connection. Organization (the Eastern Division). Language (Italian). Affinity (Go Cubs).

Moblogging may make both forms of geocoding automatic for users (GPS for each post, billing address for the blog) but the servers must also encode, store, transmit, and render geocoded weblog html and RSS/Atom feeds.

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My vote counts. I have four things to vote on Monday or Tuesday:

1. NO: Recall.
   • He won the election fair and square. He shaved $30 billion off the state's deficit so far. Let him do his job.
2. Cruz M. Bustamante: for Governor if recall passes. 
   • I respect the role Bustamante has played in resolving the budget stalemate so far. He's a Democrat. And unlike Arnie, he accepted the voluntary spending limits. 
   • Why not Schwartzenegger? He lies about Davis, says only rich people are honest, and won't explain what services he will cut to close the budget deficit.
3. NO: Proposition 53 "Funds Dedicated for State and Local Infrastructure. "
   • Unfunded mandate. You want my vote? Spell out the services you'll cut and the added taxes/fees to pay for your project.  
4. NO: Proposition 54 Bans "Classification by Race, Ethnicity, Color, or National Origin. "
   • We can scrap tracking when we go ten years without measurable discrimination in work, education, health care, or criminal justice. I live in Oakland, California, and we are far from ready.  

What's your slate?

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