May 29, 2008
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Thought du jour
The Net is a way to work around the silos that substitute for it. This came to me after seeing “Twitter is over capacity.” for the Nth time. Twitter will be better off when it’s the best of its own breed, rather than the only place to do what can only be done there. That’s… Continue reading
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Tropical Massachusetts
It was a clear morning yesterday when I flew out of Boston, and almost identical when I landed in San Francisco. For oddball reasons of season and perspective, many of the sights on the outbound looked like the coast of Mexico or Brazil. In fact the above is Plum Island and its inlet on the… Continue reading
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Killer “journalism”
Yesterday on the drive from SFO to Palo Alto, I hit SCAN on the rental car radio. Aside from the sports shows and the still-awesome KPIG (with a little signal on 1510 out of Oakland… check it out), most of what I heard was partisanship at all costs. Eventually you get slips like this one… Continue reading