Hilarie: hey Hilarie: is brice still closeted gay and in the military? me: yo yo me: yes and yes me: still in LA? Hilarie: yes although living now in Pasadena Hilarie: still in NY? me: yep indeed me: what sort of law you doing now, same? Hilarie: commercial litigation me: very well Hilarie: representing DHL right now Hilarie: im still just a cog tho :( me: union thing? me: or dispute with other firm? Hilarie: no breach of contract actions me: oh snap me: breachin' those contracts Hilarie: the other side actually breached me: right me: I'm launching a big media project Hilarie: tell me: had a meeting today with a True/Slant exec regarding getting their assistance me: I've formed a small network of prominent, competent bloggers who will build a continuously-growing network me: with the intent of organizing the blogosphere in such a way as to confront various traditional outlets Hilarie: how so? me: as well as to serve as a sort of "wisdom of crowds" media generator whereby to the extent that a story is deemed important by individual commentators within the network, it is more likely to be seen by both other bloggers and readers me: re: how so?: by engineering critical mass on a story from time to time, particularly in regards to failures of certain mainstream outlets/commentators, in such a way that other traditional outlets are likely/pressed to report on it Hilarie: sounds great me: thus bringing such things in front of the audience which needs it most, which is to say people who get their news from the mainstream outlets Hilarie: it will become mainstream tho me: being mainstream isn't the problem Hilarie: i see me: the problem is the structures that have developed amongst the prevailing news outlets Hilarie: i get all my news from drudge Hilarie: i like sites like that me: this gives me the ability to first pick out the most competent/intellectually honest of bloggers, and then the resulting network is, to that extent, superior already Hilarie: who is engineering it? me: and the manner in which information flows basically provides for a buffer of competent people/barriers to prevent less important or false information from spreading too far me: my friend Andrew Stein, who's a programmer for Deutsch Bank and managed Heart's upcoming digital paper software Hilarie: thats awesome Hilarie: my boyfriend is a programmer too me: anyway, mentioned it in my last Vanity Piece and making formal announcement tomorrow me: yeah, they're everywhere, aren't they? Hilarie: here apparently they are hard to find Hilarie: i know he is hiring right now and having trouble finding talent me: LA's probably not much of a programmer city, what with the sun me: and the aesthetic me: they're all over here Hilarie: true but we do have myspace here and some social networking sites Hilarie: eharmony too Hilarie: so do you have a link to your site? me: what site? me: oh, there's not one me: it's a distributed network, the software is built that way to provide for greater compatibility. It doesn't exist as a website or even a central server or anything