Bloggers bringing down the deputy prime minister?
Posted on July 13th, 2006 by Jackie Danicki
Brian Micklethwait has the goods.
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The only math(s) I’m good at…
Posted on July 13th, 2006 by Jackie Danicki
…is celebrity math(s).
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Kira: Bushel of joy, sunbeam, jewel
Posted on July 13th, 2006 by Jackie Danicki
One of the people I really enjoyed meeting yesterday at CJU was Steve Winterhalter, an American guy who’s been working for Commission Junction in London for about a year. After he and I had been talking for quite a while about blogs, with me telling him about the book I am writing about how social […]
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Dewey Donation System: Tales and a tail
Posted on July 13th, 2006 by Jackie Danicki
You remember the Dewey Donation System, right? I only posted about it last week. Anyway, I just sorted out my own donation for the Pass Christian Library in Gulfport, Mississippi - a copy of Chris Anderson’s The Long Tail (how I loved giving this one!) and a copy of Alexander McCall Smith’s Espresso Tales. The […]
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Commission Junction University 2006
Posted on July 12th, 2006 by Jackie Danicki
I spent more than 12 hours at ValueClick’s Commission Junction University event today, watching loads of presentations and shooting my big mouth off about blogs, RSS, and social media for around 15 minutes. I need to process my notes and write properly about the event (not to mention sleep off the champagne I had during […]
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I’m going to WordCamp 2006
Posted on July 11th, 2006 by Jackie Danicki
Yay! If you’re also going and want to get together, shoot me an email.
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Free Slurpees for everyone!
Posted on July 11th, 2006 by Jackie Danicki
When I was a kid, the treat to end all special treats was a Slurpee from 7-Eleven. I think I may have had one, once. (Don’t cry for me; this is only because there weren’t a lot of 7-Elevens in our area. Believe me, I more than made up for it with the candy bars […]
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Vox
Posted on July 10th, 2006 by Jackie Danicki
Having received an early invitation to play around with Six Apart’s new blogging platform, Vox, of course I couldn’t resist the urge to do just that. Here’s my Vox blog. (Actually, I am kind of resisting the urge; will save the real play as a reward later in the week. I’m geek like that.)
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Allons à Paris
Posted on July 10th, 2006 by Jackie Danicki
We were only in France a couple of months ago, but we’re heading back on Saturday - this time, to Paris, for a week, to celebrate my birthday. (I will be 29 on July 21. Eek.)
Antoine has lived there, and indeed still has a flat there, and I’ve also spent some time in Paris. Despite […]
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Weird email of the day
Posted on July 10th, 2006 by Jackie Danicki
I just got this, which…Well, see for yourselves:
Communist countries have nothing to do with communism or socialism.
Someone’s either smoked a bit too much ganja, or is really desperate for attention. Who am I to deny him?
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World Cup woes
Posted on July 10th, 2006 by Jackie Danicki
GAH. What a thoroughly stupid way to end one’s career. Speaking of stupid, Perry de Havilland says of the Italians “taking more dives than Jacques Cousteau”:
I for one find athletes rolling around on the ground play-acting terrible injury when someone so much as brushes up against them such a pathetic and unmanly spectacle that perhaps […]
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Africa-bound
Posted on July 8th, 2006 by Jackie Danicki
We are going to Egypt in October; specifically, to Cairo. Our hotel room will have views of the Giza Pyramids and the Sphinx. I am so excited about this trip that I can’t stop squealing and otherwise being irritating about it. Technically, it is my birthday present to Antoine, but I’m getting so much out […]
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Dems and Republicans: Birds of a feather
Posted on July 8th, 2006 by Jackie Danicki
Reader Quincy, in the comments to this post:
I basically see two political groups, those who believe people are people, and those who believe people are merely means to an end. The current leadership of both major political parties is clearly in the latter camp, always speaking of society and groups, never of individual people.
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Ben Casnocha comes to London
Posted on July 7th, 2006 by Jackie Danicki
Ben, I am so putting you to work when it comes time to cook for your party in London at the end of the month.
Speaking of: I am throwing a party for Silicon Valley’s youngest successful entrepreneur - and overall interesting, curious, and good-natured guy - on 29 July in London. Ben is travelling […]
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