Recently read…thanks to some guy in Ireland, anyone heard of him? [insert smiley here]
I’ll talk more about this on Monday, but for now I will say that I could not be happier with where I am.
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I’ll explain later how I helped to make this happen, but let’s just say…life is strange.
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Great stuff from Jeff Nolan. A taste:
While the efforts to define semantic web technologies are theoretically proscribed in an open standards process it has the imagery of a politburo directing the proletariat. It may well be that these core technologies reside on a level of the geek stratosphere that is well beyond the vast majority […]
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#berkman10 jimmy wales: if we designed restaurants the way we design digital social spaces, we wouldn’t give knives to steak diners
-@jobsworth (aka BT Global Services CIO JP Rangaswami), reporting what @jwales - aka Wikipedia founder Jimmy Wales - had to say on Wikipedia, Civility, and Deliberative Democracy at the Berkman @ 10 conference at Harvard […]
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@loiclemeur lots of video comments on that link; faces obscured. no idea which one you meant, no way to skim them, not worth my time. fail.
-@kevinmarks (aka Kevin Marks) in response to Seesmic founder Loic Le Meur’s enthusiasm for video comments on blogs
(NOTE: In general, I am interested in further exploring video comments on blogs, […]
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I’m thinking a whole bunch of cyclists got together and were all, these outfits just aren’t there yet. How can we make them more ridiculous?
-@Dooce, aka Heather Armstrong, who was very charming and had great hair on Nightline last night
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[S]crew cleantech short-term. Give me a battery for my laptop and mobile phone which doesn’t need to be charged every day. Figure that problem out first before you even think of considering the Tesla Roadster ready for mass consumption. The same goes for any other new innovation regarding cleantech…
Don’t get me wrong, I myself am […]
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Drew’s choice for bread when shopping: “that looks sort of cute”
-@BlakeFox (yes, Cincinnati’s own Blake Fox!) on grocery shopping with his boyfriend @dreworama, who is really quite the aesthete and a man after my own heart. Why not buy bread based on cuteness?
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This is great, concise advice:
Just say something you mean, and enjoy the short thoughts, inspirations and mundane details of the people you decide to follow- searching for bloggers and writers you enjoy reading in a bigger format is the way to start. Follow people saying real stuff, not the ones who are just advertising.
How […]
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If you treat work and life as mutually exclusive things, then you should not be surprised to have a work-life balance problem.
-JP Rangaswami says all that and more worth reading in a cracking post.
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From one of the most hard-working, impressive moms I know, Alice Bachini-Smith:
You can’t really enjoy anything with kids unless the kids are enjoying it first…
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Thinking I might sell tickets for an event about memes with the Youtube guys as speakers. But when people arrive it’s a Rick Astley gig.
-@paulcarr (aka Paul Carr, the British author and journalist and Robbie Williams doppelganger)
NB I don’t see how one could be reading blogs and not understand this tweet, but just in case, […]
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I laughed and smiled my way through this entire post from Ask the Harvard MBA, on whether or not it’s possible for men and women to have strictly platonic friendships. The short answer, from my shrink, is: No, because it would be counter-evolutionary; the tension is there even if neither party is conscious of it. […]
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Man, this whole blog post from the Guardian’s food critic is critical gold. He’s got Ramsay bang to rights on several fronts. A snippet:
The last country which attempted to legislate over what its population ate was the Soviet Union. It introduced a state cook book and anybody who, like me, has had the misfortune to […]
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