March 2008
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Not just talk
Was just pointed to The Age of Conversation. Not sure I’m in it (don’t think I am, anyway). But hey, I’m glad to see others roll a snowball I helped start. Next up: The Age of Relationship. Continue reading
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Paperpassity
That’s my sniglet for the tendency of a printer to pass extra sheets through without printing on them. Continue reading
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Biking blogger wanted
Ross Rader is riding against cancer across Canada, and is looking for help. Specifically, While I would totally appreciate your financial support, that’s not the purpose of this post. The real reason I’m dusting off the blog is because we are looking for a chief blogger/podcaster/vidcaster type of person to come with us on the… Continue reading
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Who new?
Surprised I hadn’t seen this movie, which is right out of Cluetrain and comes from Microsoft, of all peoples. Thanks to Keith Hopper for turning me on to it. Continue reading
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The Less Street Journal
Says here the Wall Street Journal, long a fee-to-see site, is now secretly free: …in many cases, the method is drop-dead simple; in some cases, it requires the Firefox browser and add-on software. But in all cases, it’s completely legal, and in fact it’s hard to see how the Journal could object to it at… Continue reading
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Righting wrong
Andrew Sullivan: What I Got Wrong About Iraq. A sample: I recall very clearly one night before the war began. I made myself write down the reasons for and against the war and realized that if there were question marks on both sides, the deciding factor for me in the end was that I… Continue reading
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The making of an icon
I’ve always liked cars. Never owned a great one, unless you count an ’85 Camry that ran forever with the fewest possible repairs. I did have a hand in my wife’s purchase of a ’92 Infiniti Q45a — a fabulous piece of work, sadly dulled by the maker in subsequent models. It was sadly repair-prone… Continue reading
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Earth needs women
Tonight here at Harvard, Lisa Stone, founder of BlogHer, is speaking on What Women Want: How Candidates and Companies Hurt and Help Themselves with Women Today. Can’t wait. In fact, I’ll be introducing her. It’s put on by the Berkman Center as part of the Berkman @ 10 series. Hope some of ya’ll can make… Continue reading
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And why would anybody ever click on “More Ads”?
Facebook thinks I’m fat: In fact, I am. Not not a lot, but more than I would be if I weren’t a desk potato who ate what he wanted and doesn’t exercise enough. But how do they know that? And why would I want to be reminded of it? Continue reading
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Silver and linings
My main disappointment with living in Boston this winter is the crappy snow. I think we’ve had only one or two snows this winter that were not what they ephemistically call “wintry mix”: snow mixed with or changing to rain. This morning we had another nice little snow, about half an inch, that has since… Continue reading
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Clue shipping
Says here at Amazon that Cluetrain is … #13,139 in Books #33 in Web Marketing #34 in Theory and #43 in E-Commerce I kinda like the Theory thing, not sure about the other two. But hey, for a book that old, it’s not bad. Continue reading
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Cruising over Cornwall
Got some nice pictures of the Cornwall Coast, while still ascending out of Heathrow en route to Washington and Boston. The shot above is of Padstow Bay, with Trebetherick and the Polzeaths on the right, above Padstow and Daymer Bays. (The latter is the lower, or southern, one.) Interesting to see how the surf hits… Continue reading
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Finding Newfoundland
Often as I fly over eastern Canada, I’ve somehow always missed Newfoundland. It has always been nighttime, or clouded under, or too far from the plane’s route. Well, not this last time. When I flew from London to Boston via Washington (LHR-IAD-BOS) on the first day of March, I could see on the plane’s map… Continue reading
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Subtractvertising
If you’re going to be in the advertising business, either as a site or as a service that puts ads on sites, at least make sure that the damn server gets the ads on the pages. Now that our home is served by a Verizon FiOS connection that gives us 20Mb both upstream and down… Continue reading
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The R word again
The question at AlwaysOn: Is Facebook Growing Up? I dunno. And mostly I don’t care. I hope so, anyway. Meanwhile, much of the text under that question is some quoted stuff I said elsewhere that somehow relates. A sample: On the customer side, once individuals become equipped with tools of independence and engagement, nature’s… Continue reading
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Conversations about markets
Alan Mitchell has nicely surfaced some of the conversation that’s been going on amidst the VRM development community. Not conclusive, but good stuff. Continue reading
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NewsGang up
Friday’s NewsGang, with Dennis Haarsager, Stephen Hill (of Hearts of Space), host Steve Gillmor and yours truly, is up. It was long (1:25) but very good. Here’s the MP3. The main topic was Dennis’ new job as iCEO of NPR. I was on a panel with Dennis just a few weeks ago. He’s a great… Continue reading
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Whydentity
Ryan Janssen has been doing a remarkable job of following and making sense of various user-centric identity systems. If that’s your cup of curioiusity as well, check ’em out. Continue reading