VentureBlog's David Hornik has some thoughts about blogging D: All Things Digital 2004: "I have no doubt that Walt Mossberg has learned his lesson and will follow suit at his conference this year as well." That would really be too bad. In addition to hoping to go/blog myself, there were several non-journo bloggers there last year I'd love to hear from. Not to mention that, as Dan Gillmor notes, Mark Cuban (an '03 speaker, attendee, and great questioner-from-the-audience) has been bitten.

If you haven't read the intro and first four [draft] chapters of Dan Gillmor's forthcoming book, "Making the News," go do it now.

Pregnancy and its results, regardless of the species, spawn (among other things) worthwhile observations.

From my dad, who has a possibly pregnant pet: "There's really something to be said for trying to crawl beneath an unwilling Yak-sized llama in an attempt to inspect her undercarriage."

From Heather Armstrong, whose "Boob" essay deserves a place in the Mammarary Hall of Fame: "Sometimes I look down when I'm feeding her and it looks like I have a hairy cantaloupe attached to my boob."

It's no Real surprise to learn that Real's DRM has been sidestepped, but this is the first time I've seen pointers to specific applications: Streambox Ripper and Wisecroft Ripper. Uh – UnReal?

Don't link now, but it looks as though some law firm partners and associates could be going at one another in public — though they might not realize it, and it might of course be a fully intentional and fictional piece of performance art. Kevin Heller, Jeremy Blachman, Evan Schaeffer, and Ernie Svenson have more. (Evan has definitively cleared Ernie of involvement: "[H]e would have insisted on a RSS feed.")

Joi Ito: "Wired News just ran an article by Xeni exposing a draft letter circulated by Bill Lockyer, California attorney general slamming P2P. The metadata on the Word document shows that it has been edited/reviewed by the Motion Picture Association of America."

Kevin Heller: "[A]pparently SCO had also planned on suing Bank of America which was discovered in the metadata of one the complaints."

Pre-pregnancy: Beverly Hot Springs
Post-pregnancy: Crest Whitening Plus Scope
Any old time: the new blog, De Novo (more, more, more, and yet more)