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New Nokia 810 has a full qwerty keyboard. Yup, that might finally move me to consider some kind of teeny computer. I wouldn't go for anything with a smaller screen because I'd want to read ebooks on it.

Dave's been refining his experimental Flickr 2 Twitter app.

The picture part is a new wrinkle in TwitterGrams, a way to send an audio tweet -- by uploading an MP3 file, or much more easily by phoning it in using a gateway enabled by BlogTalk Radio.
It would be nice if the picstream had a little player like Blogger's Blogger Play.

I did make a no-Flash player for the audio TwitterGrams. I'm not sure I'd know where to start with a slide player (but might think on it! ;-) )

There doesn't seem to be a whole lot of interest so far among the tech community about Mozilla's announcement that it's getting more serious about mobile browsing, but dropping the Mimino project.

That could be because they don't seem to be in any great hurry about it. "Certainly not before 2008," Schrep says in the announcement post. Or maybe the raves are muted because mobile proponents have their noses a little out of joint because Mozilla developers are viewed as doubters coming late to the party.

I dunno, in the whole scheme of things in tech world news, making mobile content look and work better seems more significant longterm than a lot of the little wrinkles in the landscape that get attention pile-on treatment. I guess I'm just annoyed with the chorus in general.

The bit that's most interesting to me, and also something you don't hear much about, is Mozilla's existing Joey project, which lets you send stuff to your mobile device from your desktop computer. Example: you'd look up directions from a map service and pass it along to your phone instead of printing it out.

Joey uses accounts on a remote server. Could be I'm not getting something, or I believe in Dave Winer's decade-old vision for teensy web servers in everything too trustingly, but you wouldn't have to do that on a remote server, would you?

I was so happy to see all the developers popping up with ideas in answer to Dave Winer's advice request for the best way to go about porting the OPML Editor to Linux. Great idea to approach it that way, and get a fresh crop of techies thinking about it. The open-source Frontier crowd doesn't seem to be doing much at all anymore.

God knows I don't work at that level, and barely even understand what's needed or what the aim is, but I know I'd love to see the Linux build so the OPML Editor Community Server can run on it. That makes all kinds of sense.

But who knows, maybe Dave is thinking more along the lines of fractional horsepower servers. That's cool, too, and even more groundbreaking.

Hell yeah, I'd put a teensy web server in my little Sansa mp3 player to sync podcasts with my home network. Put one in my cat's collar or on the bottom of my shampoo bottle. Or, how about this? In a bookmark in my paper book that tells me where I left off so I can continue in audio when I get in the car?

I bought the domain, sidebarstuff.com, a year ago or so when I started getting interested in widgets, but ignored it when I did not seem able to come up with a cool enough looking home page for it. Widgets are so ultra 2-ohish it seemed like it should be the very epitome of round-cornered-gradient-light-blueness.

But concerns like that ebb and flow -- don't they for you, too? -- and at the moment the design doesn't seem so important. I'm going to start putting some of my little projects there. Like this form that leads to a mobile page visualizer.

iZilla reminds me of boomboxes and the movement in... when was it, the 80s?... toward bigger rather than smaller radios.

Cool thing is there's a slot for LPs, so you can convert your vinyl tunes.

Last time I visited my parents at their Florida place I had to get online with dialup. This year there's a nearby Rally gas station with wifi. So it's 9:40 p.m. and I'm online, outside, in a t-shirt and shorts. We Northerners need spring break. Also anyone whose blood has been thinned by living in warmer climates. Just three years in L.A. made me not really a Michigan person anymore.

iTunes is offering condensed versions of the NCAA championship games for $1.99 each or $19.99 for all 63 condensed games.

I think I'd rather see highlights than abridgements. I never trust the judgement of editors who abridge books, and this is the same thing.

Sorry I can't link to the deal. The link that came in my e-mail is for iTunes users only. I don't like to give out restricted links like that.

You get these the next day. It reminded me of an idea I've had for a long time about sports on non-broadcast outlets, like cable TV or now podcasting. HBO has shows by Bob Costas and Bryant Gumbel, but it doesn't exploit its advantage. They use fowl language in movies. Why not in sports shows? Talk about sports the way guys really talk about sports.

The leagues might not think it's a good PR move to sell play-by-play coverage using blue language. But, an amateur could do a podcast the way some TV shows have offered commentary tracks played in sync with recorded shows.

I get a kick out of the way guys watch sports, especially when there are two or more avid emotional fans watching together. That's the mood I think would work best. "DID YOU SEE THAT?!! GUY'S A F***ING JOKE. COME ON!"

The Origami team's take on its buzz campaign is reported on the team blog.

Robert Scoble has had a peek at Origami and now he's teasing about it.

Microsoft's channel 9 will showcase it on Thursday. Sounds like the latest speculation is true -- it's a little tablet and priced right.

- My most recent posts categorized under PortableMobile are all about Origami.