After the first discussion session adjourned and we all re-assembled to go through the notes of our respective conversations, Adriana walked into the room and I could tell she hadn’t been overly impressed with the conversation she’d just had.
This wasn’t good. I felt hyper-responsible for Adriana having a good time, since I’d dragged her all […]
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Jeff Nolan, a former SAP VC who is currently helping the company implement social networking and who was in my discussion group after the first three Techdirt Greenhouse demos, does a pretty good job of summing up the general feeling about Renkoo, whose CTO Joyce Park had the unenviable role of giving the first five […]
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Now that I’ve posted various crab-ass rants, revamped the look of the blog, and wallowed in my sickbed misery for too many hours, I guess it’s time to do something constructive and process my notes from Techdirt Greenhouse. I’ll do it in chunks related to specific topics, for easier digestion and linking. (For a brief […]
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How come I’m too congested to smell the yummy warm vanilla sugar hand soap I bought in America, or the delicious new cologne I bought for Antoine, but I can still smell our next door neighbour’s hideous fag stench coming through my bedroom window as he stands outside and smokes? He is doing nothing wrong, […]
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Damn, I wish I wasn’t still sick - and not just because it means I’m going to miss kicking it like Van Damme with Om Malik in Holborn tonight. Om is, from the dealings my friends have had with him, a good guy - and he recently announced that he is giving up his current […]
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Socialist friend of Jackie (there aren’t many of them, people) Damian Counsell:
When I was at school, an official in my local Labour Party told his daughter he’d disown her if she “took a darkie up the aisle”. (If you’re reading, mate, it’s okay: she and I never explored that sexual practice.) I knew then that […]
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You know, if people who work at Starbucks want to drink high-fat drinks and eat pastries all day, that’s their call. If the people who walk in to Starbucks want to drink high-fat drinks and eat pastries all day, that’s they’re call. If these evil schmucks want to keep wasting public resources with ridiculous lawsuits […]
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“Oh my gosh, I can’t believe how soft they are! These are awesome! I’m in heaven!”
I actually said that tonight, when Antoine went out ‘hunting’ and brought back some Kleenex Ultra Soft for me. I am still sick (but since my most recent illness before this was a wicked stomach virus, I keep cheerfully saying […]
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Best Food Nation = worst blog ever. Why? Hint: It’s not the commercial nature, but the total lack of humanity. If that’s authentic, those organisations authentically suck. Link via e-mail from Adriana, because Looksmart is doing nothing about having locked her out of her Furl account. (Anyone who knows anyone at Looksmart: Please help!)
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If any of you are interested in finding out What MySpace Means, I have a handful of tickets left for the event next week. We’ve got speakers from Skype, the Guardian, Fox News, Hitwise, plus Adriana, Hillary Johnson, Antoine Clarke, and even some people who have never shared a hotel room with me. Talk to […]
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…to London, but not to functioning. I’m sick (again) and am planning to take today ‘off’ and catch up on essential reading. Despite being unwell, I am still buzzing over some of the connections I made and the conversations I had in San Francisco, about which I want to write properly. I tend to have […]
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The masthead is a cut from a picture of some nocturnally fragrant passion flowers in Shel Israel’s beautiful garden, which is also where Brian Oberkirch took the photo from which my new sidebar picture comes.
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J Krishnamurti said something once that I keep reminding myself:
It’s no measure of health to be well-adjusted to a profoundly sick society.
Reminder via Tim Taylor, with whom I agree and disagree on much. Lots to explore and learn.
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Many thanks once again to Shel Israel for hosting a fantastic party at Hotel Utah in San Francisco last night for me and Adriana. Thanks also to Jeremiah Owyang, whose promotional prowess brought between 40 and 50 bloggers (and blog watchers) to our party. You guys rock!
Other people I was pleased as punch to have […]
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