Someone said to me recently that I appear to be passionate about blogging, RSS, podcasting, and all that stuff. I can certainly see why it seems that way, especially in contexts where I may be surrounded by those who are relatively new to those things and am trying to illuminate the context of where they […]
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My friend Nancy Rommelmann and her husband, Din Johnson (brother of my co-editor and friend Hillary Johnson), opened Din’s artisanal coffee roasting company and café in Portland last month. An abbreviated website for Ristretto Roasters is now live. I’m not a coffee drinker, but they’ve got free wifi and Nancy’s amazing chocolate chip cookies; if […]
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Thank you to everyone who sent such thoughtful and kind emails to me about the inconsiderate smokers post. Believe it or not, I fret way too much about people reading what I write here and thinking that I’m either neurotic or perpetually grouchy about insignificant things (hey, can’t I be both?). But just when I […]
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While we disagree on some key things, my Advice Goddess friend Amy Alkon’s blog is so full of good stuff that, come the weekend, I end up with a Newsgator clippings file full of her posts. (Coffee for Morons, Stay Hungry, Stay Foolish, and You Just Can’t Give the Money Away! are my recent favourites […]
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When I was working in California earlier this year, one of the geekiest thrills I had was finally meeting Anil Dash when I visited the Six Apart offices in San Francisco. (Perry de Havilland and I got stuck in the lift there, too, which - with no offence to Perry - was not quite as […]
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…Especially if you’re into investing Holocaust denial with political legitimacy. It is frightening how many otherwise seemingly normal, intelligent people I know who treat Chomsky as a rational thinker and sage.
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I could not put this as succinctly or as well as Perry de Havilland does:
My contempt for the Nobel Prize for anything grew dramatically today when I read that Harold Pinter won the award for literature. The fact he is an apologist for Europe’s most prolific mass murdering socialist since Joseph Stalin, namely Slobodan […]
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Microsoft’s Robert Scoble has a lovely wife, Maryam Ghaemmaghami Scoble, who also works for Microsoft as a webcast producer. I met her briefly in June, but find out more about her from the blog she recently started. It usually makes me laugh, or at least smile. This entry made me laugh and wince, as it […]
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Something about this post from Seth Godin sent a chill down my spine:
For just about any venture, it’s the first customers that pay the rent, and the last ones that make a profit. It’s hard to imagine anyone going back to newspapers, isn’t it?
Seth writes this in response to the news that the Philadelphia […]
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Please don’t let it be said that Americans have a monopoly on creativity in legal action: Exhibit A.
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Last night at 7PM, I turned off the computer. I did not turn it back on again until after 9 o’clock tonight. I got so much done, and relaxed so much, that I am questioning the wisdom of having a PC at home.
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Help me to help a friend. If there is one post of mine which I would like you to give your full attention, it is this one. I’ll quote in full the appeal posted by Ben Sullivan on the Science Blog:
A Science Blog ally has been struck with a recurrence of lung cancer and […]
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Labour MP Tom Watson blogs:
Leighton Andrews is writing a book on Britishness and the BBC. He’s set up a weblog to help in with the endeavour - see Blogging the Beeb. It’s a fascinating way of getting differnet views into your primary research. I hope that friends and foe of the Beeb choose to […]
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The event went very well. The content of the presentations was excellent, and I got tons of good feedback from all the right people. There were some logistical slip-ups on the part of the event organisers and the venue. If you know me at all, you will well understand why Adriana whispered to Paul when […]
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