Recently readAway from the sun
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I’ll be in Cincinnati very early Thursday morning. Until then, I’m in the sky or in stupid “security” lines.
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Gonzalez, 17, says he isn’t in a gang and shaved the lines [in his eyebrows] to look cool and impress girls. But he says he’d be humiliated if he had to shave his brows off.
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They all hate Barbie.
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From Clay Shirky’s talk at the Web 2.0 Expo last week, where he also addresses the totally retarded “Where do people find the time for internet participation?” question:
I was having dinner with a group of friends about a month ago, and one of them was talking about sitting with his four-year-old daughter watching a DVD. […]
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Nancy + me
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Life is awfully hectic at the moment, and it is only going to get more intense. This is no bad thing - in fact, it is very good.
But it does mean that I am falling behind on certain conversational threads, especially those started via email. If you have contacted […]
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It’s amazing to me how many important conversations in my life now take place on Twitter. Most of the work-related people I know are on there, as well as personal friends. So when I mention Twitter to non-webby friends (hi, Karri!), it can be hard to explain exactly how it works and what’s so different […]
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So did I! I will miss her, but suspect we’ll be back together here soon.
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Even when I was drinking, I didn’t really enjoy parties like the Netvibes one last night. You can barely move for the crowd, it’s too loud to talk, and the light is so low that you can’t even scope the crowd for hotties. I left after five minutes.
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Nancy Rommelmann & me
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When I knew I was making this trip out to Silicon Valley, I emailed Nancy Rommelmann and asked her if she could fly down from Portland to see me. We haven’t seen one another since September 2006, when the above photo was taken. I knew it was a long […]
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Three stooges at the British Consulate
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A few of us headed over to the British Consultate (12 Presidio, if you want to show up on their doorstep) for drinks and perhaps the best canapés of the week. Paul Birch was astonished that they were even better than the ones offered by his company, […]
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Originally uploaded by Scott Rutherford.
After the small gathering at Bebo HQ on Wednesday night, many of us headed to the ultra-cool Slide, a bar/club owned by Friendster’s founder, for an official Web Mission party. We had the whole place to ourselves and drinks paid for by Sun Microsystems. Sweet.
Pictured: the exceedingly affable Hilary Keane […]
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I met Paul Jozefak on Twitter via Jeff Nolan, a mutual friend. Paul (who is in Germany) has told me several times that I remind him of his sister, insisting that the two of us should meet someday.
Today, he sent me a Twitter message saying that she was in San Francisco, too. A few […]
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No, really, I sort of am. But the graft is interspersed with moments of pure silliness and fun, such as the one below. It’s me, the very witty Bebo co-founder Michael Birch, the delightfully mad, gorgeous Michelle Acton Bond and devilishly handsome WAYN co-founder Peter Ward in cab from Slide to the Mashable party at […]
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My friend, Dr. Eamonn Butler, on prices:
The emperor Diocletian decreed maximum prices for bread. Bakers couldn’t make a fair return, and stopped baking. The American colonies tried to keep down the price of wheat, which nearly caused George Washington’s army to starve because nobody produced wheat any more.
That’s not ‘market failure’. That’s political failure. Mrs […]
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