December 2007
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And Marc makes 25
Thanks to Marc Canter for his 24 who mattered in 2007. Of course there were countless more. But Marc has been mattering every year. So, a toast to the big guy for staying equally smart, enthused, insightful and effective for a helluva long time. Rock on, dude. Continue reading
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Point du jour
What most business leaders don’t understand today is that the social web is a medium for open, honest and frank conversations between people, one to one to millions. Nothing can be hidden and the more people that become engaged the greater the reach of the conversations. — Jay Deragon Jay’s blog is Relationship-Economy.com. I like… Continue reading
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Death kept warm
To understand journalism, you need to know the nature of The Story. Every story has three elements: 1) a character, 2) a problem, and 3) movement toward resolution. The character could be a person, a cause, a ball club — doesn’t matter, as long as the reader (or the viewer, or the listener) can identify… Continue reading
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News vs./+ News-Press, cont’d
Los Angeles Magazine has a long and excellent piece by RJ Smith on the News-Press mess in Santa Barbara. It’s about two subjects. One is the meltdown at the paper itself — a story that’s now a year and a half old, with no sign of ever ending. The other is the question of whether… Continue reading
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SexE B
Sean Bonner is a Top 10 sexy geek, according to Violet Blue. Tantek is a runner-up. So is Zadi. Those are the three out of 20 listed that I know on a first name basis. Or at all. No Tony? Not even when he says, my advice is, if people are dissing you at your… Continue reading
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Customer Electronics Show
Cool to see Dave is going to CES. This has become an annual pilgrimage for me — covering the event for Linux Journal. 2008 is no exception. I’ll be there for the whole thing. (Though I’ll skip the always crowded and equally pointless Bill Gates keynote.) CES stands for Consumer Electronics Show, although it’s really… Continue reading
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Predicting the futures
Stephen Wellman has a nice rundown of Mark Anderson‘s predictions for 2008 (most of which I agree with — in some cases enthusiastically —, though it’ll take more than a year for many of them to pan out). What’s also cool is that Stephen includes a pointer back to Mark’s predictions for 2007, some of… Continue reading
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Bringing freedom to Washington
David Isenberg has announced the next F2C: Freedom to Connect, which will happen on March 31 and April 1 of next year, in Washington, DC. The theme is “The NetHeads come to Washington”. The new term “NetHeads” is counterposed to the old term “BellHeads”, which referred to folks whose world view was framed by the… Continue reading
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Q from MA
Why, in online personal information forms, is the state (or province) almost always in a pull-down menu? Why not have people type in the state, and correct them when they type in more or less than two letters? For most of the form you can enter everything without leaving the keyboard. But the state or… Continue reading
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An idea that needs to snowball
Nothing is more likely to get me to come to the Berkshires in coldest winter than the chance to help build and coat Freezing Man. Continue reading
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Beyond the smartphone: the phrowser.
Justin Karp: iPhone crushes the competition. All of them. That post sources this post buy jkOnTheRun, which sources this post by Daniel Eran Dilger, which sources Canalys, which says nothing on its site. So the closest I can can get to the source is Daniel, who says, In its first full quarter of sales,… Continue reading
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The only real social networks are personal ones
Should Brands Join or Build Their Own Social Network? is the question Jeremiah Owyang raised yesterday on Twitter and in facebook. If you’re a facebook member, you can participate. I am a member, but I’d rather not. At least, not there. All due respect (and I respect Jeremiah a great deal), I’d rather talk outside… Continue reading
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Latest in the Firstest
O’Reilly has made the entire corpus of Esther Dyson’s Release 1.0 available. You can download every issue in .pdf form at that link. (It would be cool if the download page included titles. Perhaps the lazyweb can fill in some blanks there.) If you want to see the one issue I wrote, select the year… Continue reading
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Take note(s)
Susan Kish took some outstanding notes from my talk at LeWeb3 last week. Bonus link: Tips for Conference Bloggers, by Bruno Guissani and Ethan Zuckerman. Continue reading
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Bottom of the morning to ya
Am I alone in beginning to think that a blog post is just a Twitter post that’s longer than 140 characters? Anyway, I’m typing this at the eye doctor’s office, following up on my visit here in November, when my right eye went through posterior vitreous detachment. (Not as bad as it sounds; just annoying.)… Continue reading
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Quote du jour
When it comes to controversy, after abortion, nothing beats guns and kids. — Rick Segal Continue reading
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Remembering Floyd Westerman
I only met Floyd Westerman once, at Max Gail‘s house in Malibu. I didn’t know at the time that Floyd was a celebrity. Actually, I’m not sure if Floyd was a celebrity or not. I figure a celebrity is somebody whose name I know or whose face is instantly recognizable to me. Floyd’s wasn’t, even… Continue reading
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He’s funny as shit. Start there.
Guardian: Twenty-eight people ask Hugh MacLeod to be their friend each day. What’s so special about him? Continue reading
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Snow difference
When I was a kid growing up in New Jersey, just across the Hudson from New York, the best winter forecast to hear was one for snow — especially if it came with accumulations sufficient to close school and assure great sledding. Our street was a straight hill, and kids from all over the town… Continue reading