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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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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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Live and kicking
Nice to read by Phil Windley that Kathy Sierra is back in the game. Continue reading
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Buzz on buzz
Buzz Bruggeman, to Kevin O’Keefe: It’s very difficult for me to imagine today that a successful lawyer would not have an active blog. It’s sort of like imagining that they wouldn’t have business cards, or imagining that they wouldn’t have their number in a phone book — it’s a way to discover them, a… Continue reading
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Abandoning a stinking ship
We should have known the gig was going to be up when Hillary’s handlers made “conversation” a buzztheme of her campaign early on. Wrote Todd Ziegler (at that last link), The tagline “Let the Conversation Begin” is plastered all over her site and she begins her annoucement video with this quote: “I’m not just… Continue reading
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Conversation convocation
I’ll be at There’s a New Conversation, in New York, on the evening afternoon of Feb 13. Subtitled, Cluetrain Manifesto – 10 years later. Numbers aren’t really ages, of course. While Cluetrain hit the webwaves in early ’99 and the book was written that summer (to come out in January of ’00, just in time… Continue reading
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Remembering the Good Old Day
Tony wishes Moxie a Happy Birthday, recalling the July 12, 2002 party at which many L.A. bloggers, including yours truly, met. Here’s my own rundown on the event. Here are PatioPundit (Martin Devon)’s pix and commentary. Nice to see both his blog and his archives are still up. Perhaps not so nice to see he… Continue reading
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Sunrise, Sunset.
That was the sunrise on New Year’s Day here in Santa Barbara. Here’s the sunset from the same day: Both were harbingers of sorts. As I write this we’re having the worst rain of the new year. Huge storm happening. Continue reading
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Y Hoosgot
A couple nights ago David Sifry floated an interesting idea past me: a LazyWeb facilitation service that would flow tweet or blog requests for answers through a bloglike site to which readers could subscribe. Something like that, anyway. I liked it because it looked to me like a Live Web service with VRM aspects as… Continue reading
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Toward a VRM system for paying artists
In The RIAA is Right, Robert Scoble offers a tongue-in-cheek take on the RIAA’s insane idea that ripping one’s own CDs is illegal.* Among other things he says, 5. This behavior will make sure people buy (or steal) music directly from bands. See how Radiohead did it. By doing that the price for music… Continue reading
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Flying long
My sister Jan put up a nice photo series of our Aunt Grace Apgar, flying with our cousin Mark Crissman. Grace is 95 and doesn’t look or act a day over… hell, pick a number. Make it a low one. Her mom lived to 107, and Grace is in better shape at 95 than Grandma… 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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Flying from Lake Huron to Lake Michigan
The shot above, of Kettle Point on Lake Huron, is one of many in a series taken in a line running from Pinery Provincial Park in Ontario, across Michigan looking north toward Saginaw (and its Bay), Grand Rapids, various towns on the Grand River, and then the shore of Lake Michigan, all while flying from… Continue reading
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Building vs. Buzz
Dave on non-centralization: …But the blogs, who aren’t trying to climb the top 100 lists, are doing something else. We’re just trying to share information with each other so we can learn, so we can use stuff better, make better choices, improve the products, and eventually create new products. Permalink to this paragraph … Continue reading
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Question du jour
Can VRM fix DRM? I’ve visited this before, in A Public Market for Public Music. Continue reading
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Flying blinders
Just got into Chicago, and now I’m sitting in seat 4F, at the window, camera at my side, while the rest of the passengeriat boards the 737. Beautiful view of Toronto, Hamilton, Southern Ontario, Lake Huron and Central Michigan after clearing the clouds in Central New York. Got some pix I’ll put up later. Can’t… Continue reading
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New World Disorder
Chaos theory: advertising cash will soon decrease, by Jeff Jarvis in the Guardian. I get quoted: Advertising is no one’s first choice as the basis of a relationship. For marketers, it’s expensive and inefficient. For customers, it’s invasive and annoying. And targeted advertising is only slightly more efficient and slightly less annoying. Clearly, the… Continue reading
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Kids and Parents vs. Schooling
How Not to Talk to Your Kids: The Inverse power of praise, a piece by Po Bronson in New York Magazine, makes a case that praising kids, especially smart ones, may be bad for them. Specifically, Giving kids the label of “smart” does not prevent them from underperforming. It might actually be causing it. Among… Continue reading
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True, and cool
Craig Smith: The road to the Academy Awards now goes through Santa Barbara. Continue reading