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I'm volunteering this weekend at Seattle's 14/48. If you like theater, and want to see Seattle's top local theateristas conceive, write, rehearse, and stage 14 new plays in 48 hours, this is the festival for you.

Last night's opening event included picking the theme out of a bucket ('power vaccuum'), and writers picking the random envelopes that tell them how many actors they get and the sequence in which their play will be performed. It's not until this morning, after the writers stayed up late writing their plays, that the actual actors for each play are selected, again at random.

As a 14/48 newbie, I also had to pump the keg and serve beer to the gang, which fortunately I knew how to do 😉 Be sure to check it out, or next weekend, when they do the whole thing all over with a completely new set of writers, directors, actors, and crew.

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Steve Gilmor introduced the lunch-time 'Gilmor Gang' by noting his pleasure at seeing the 'podfathers' Dave Winer and Adam Curry seated next to each other. During the session, Adam Curry characterized podcasting as the "Holy Grail" of broadcasting. With little press, but 400 bloggers in the room, there's possibly more coverage than content. So check Technorati for your update fix.

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Attending in Seattle. While I had nothing to do with the firedrill that emptied last night's Google reception, the company updates and announcements today have started coming out as quickly as firemen.

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After 3 years in Seattle, and this our 4th Seattle International Film Festival, I was determined to do it properly this time. In past years, we hadn’t grokked onto the SIFF thing until the final week, racing to see two, maybe three movies before the whole shebang ended. There was that strange Korean film at the Harvard. There was Torreros ’73 at the Egyptian. And there were a lot of film freaks who got there before us and took the best seats.

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Kim Peterson, writing in today's SeattlePI, says:

"Microsoft hit the road again, testing the colors last December on focus groups in Japan, the United Kingdom and Texas. People felt the gray was wishy-washy and vague. Reaction to the white was extremely positive — particularly in Japan.

When people there were asked what company might have made the console, they guessed Sony or Apple. That thrilled Microsoft executives.

It was settled."

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Dan Gilmor launches a San Francisco-based community journalism/blog called Bayosphere that is “…of, by, and for the Bay area…”. It’s built using an open-source CMS platform named Drupal, for which they’ve also posted an explanation for why they chose it. Daniel Rubin, a writer for The Philadelphia Inquirer launches Blinq, an Inquirer-backed blog. There’s also a Boston-based portal called Universal Hub.

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After 7 months as Managing Editor of their business portfolio of 30 websites, the world’s richest software company and I have parted ways. It was a tremendous (and somewhat all-consuming) experience working with such talented, committed people. But I’m looking forward to re-establishing life on the “outside”. Apologies if you’d experienced radio-silence from me since last year. Expect more updates soon. I look forward to hearing what you’re up to.

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Like, yippee. Blogging’s gone so mainstream there’s now a Seattle-based conference about it. Really. Hoping to go. “This event will show you how your business can leverage current real-world blogging techniques, tools and platforms to promote and enhance your ventures.”

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You've bought all the new shiny gadgets, you bought the accessories. And come next January, you can buy O'Reilly's new publication MAKE: and learn how to mod your gear and make new stuff with it. DIY steadicams from soda bottles, digital pictures taken from a kite and more. Or, you could visit the Tinker Master himself, Phillip Torrone. War-kayaking anyone?

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Have we become so consumed by the "Micheal Jackson turned into the Scarecrow he played in the Wiz" news that we completely missed this? The Seattle Post-Intelligencer has discovered U2 frontman Bono morphed into the shaggy-haired, grizzle-faced comic-howler Bobcat Goldthwait.

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'This could go on for 10 minutes or three hours,' warns Kiki Durain (Justin Bond) during the opening number of Friday night's Kiki & Herb show at On the Boards. For two acts and two encores this gorgeous road-weary performer and Herb (Kenny Melman) her 'trendy gay jew-tard' sidekick sing, belt, scream, wail, and seduce their way through a wide range of standards and 80's alterna-pop covers.

There's Kiki front and center, slurring like Joan Rivers while telling the audience about her good friend Princess Grace driving her car off a Monaco cliff out of boredom. There's Kiki by the piano, vamping through Tom Jones' Sex Bomb. There she is crawling from table top to table top demanding the audience 'lick my leg!'. There's Kiki reclining in the chair, asking the doctor performing her episiotomy for 'an extra stitch for Yasaweh,' the tender husband of her daughter Coco. Behind the piano, we see Herb, cheerfully raising his eyebrow and his glass at all her jokes. By the end of the first Act, there's Kiki passed out on the stage while Herb yells back at the hooting and hollering audience 'you should have killed her when you had the chance!'"

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Does anyone find it in poor taste that so many media outlets chose to title their coverage of the death of the former President, long-suffering from Alzheimers, with various forms of "Remembering Reagan"?