September 2007
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Starbucks work hack
HogBlog‘s Starbuckian Handbook (“A field guide to your local virtual office”) is a fun post (“Avoid the palate-numbing effects of daily lunch from the bakery racks. Even Starbuckians cannot live by bread alone.”) that might prove handy, should you develop a de facto business relationship with your local coffee shop. Continue reading
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Toward a new ecology of journalism
I managed to irk pretty much everybody with my post Citizen journal breaks a heroic story. Shelley Powers and David Kearns both took issue with the “citizen journalism” concept. Shelley said it doesn’t work, and David pleaded “for the demise of that horrible ‘citizen journalist’ meme”. Liz Straus, who pointed me to the story in… Continue reading
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Leveraging laziness
In his latest post, Stephen Lewis vists the subject of Labor Day by revisiting the work of Paul Lafargue: The real enemy of all mankind, according to Lafargue, is its own senseless compulsion to produce, the self-destructive compulsion to work. Forget about fighting for the right to work, Lafargue argues, one should struggle for the… Continue reading
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Power to the person
David Weinberger is having second thoughts about agreeing with my first thoughts about Facebook’s recent decisions about minimally exposing member profiles to search engines (or whatever it is they’re doing). Specifically, Having read and thought more, I find myself agreeing more with Gene and less with myself. I also like Larry Borsato’s post. I agree… Continue reading
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Citizen journal breaks a heroic story
A Chicago Tribune story begins, A car that got stuck on tracks in north suburban Glenview was hit by two Amtrak trains Saturday night, but no injuries were reported, authorities said. It ends, Glenview police were at the scene investigating, and details about the car and driver were not available, an officer said. But there… Continue reading
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Maybe they should call it ButtBook
We’re expanding search so that people can see which of their friends are on Facebook more easily, Phillip Fung says on the company blog. He adds, The public search listing contains less information than someone could find right after signing up anyway, so we’re not exposing any new information, and you have complete control over… Continue reading
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Running the numbers
At this point, this poor girl making a fool of herself on a Miss Teen USA broadcast has been viewed 13,135,234 times on YouTube. How many people saw the actual broadcast on TV? Anybody know? Continue reading
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How snowballs catch fire
In What journalists need to know about snowballs and fire, Kristine Lowe leverages what I wrote here to explain what journalists need to know about distributed conversations. And rolls with a great example: In the framework of my blog it works like this: I write about a company like Mecom in Norway and another blogger… Continue reading
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From home to home: Day 8
Got in yesterday (Sunday), around noon, a week exactly after leaving Santa Barbara. The trip could hardly have been easier, considering. The weather was pretty much perfect, every day. The car, which turned past 120,000 miles in Arches National Park, ran smoothly and with no complaints. The dashboard says “EMISSIONS WORKSHOP”, with a little “check… Continue reading
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When “networks” get a little too social
You may be getting invitations to join Quetchup that aren’t really coming from the friends who appear to be sending them. And that company may not be the only trust violator. Continue reading
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Quote du jour
Corporate logos are blemishes on cultural artifacts. — Dave Rogers Amen. Fenway is still clean. Pretty sure about Yankee and Shea Stadiums. Where else? Just wondering. Continue reading
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Day 7: Falling into Springfield
Drove from Cleveland to Springfield today. Came out of the northeast corner of Ohio, crossed the short tab of Pennsylvania where Erie meets the lake, and turnpiked through upstate New York the long way before cresting the Berkshires and finding affordable lodging (after several tries along the way) a short drive shy of Boston, near… Continue reading