My Nancy says:
I heard a report yesterday where a gentleman from Toronto was saying, he had a dinner party; there were 12 guests, they were all in their 30s, and the main topic of conversation was the bloody horrible economy. And yet, not one person at the table had lost his or her job; one […]
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I am flying to Paris in a few hours, ahead of my talk on Tuesday to the Brand Science Institute’s latest conference. I get back to San Francisco very late on April 1, and depart early the next morning for CTIA Wireless in Las Vegas. Please stop me and say hello if you are going […]
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Just in case you haven’t seen this in one of the hundreds of thousands of other places it’s been posted, linked, and embedded:
Daniel Hannan, MEP on why the pick-up of his brief oratory matters:
[P]olitical reporters no longer get to decide what’s news. The days when a minister gave briefings to a dozen lobby correspondents, and […]
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That’s the Daily Telegraph’s verdict on Richard Blake’s Terror of Constantinople (sequel to Conspiracies of Rome). Sounds like high praise to me.
Let’s just say that Richard Blake and I are somewhat aligned ideologically, so I’m delighted to see his work reviewed so well. Buy, buy, buy!
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Joseph Tame ran the Tokyo marathon and used Qik to stream video of the race, live from his cell phone. People tuning in to watch live on the web were able to send their comments of encouragement to Joseph, via Qik’s chat function, while he ran. I loved the comment that he left on […]
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When I signed up to the Ada Lovelace Day pledge, there was only one woman in tech I wanted to blog about: Adriana Lukas. She is a visionary who - most importantly - makes things happen.
Adriana is leading what I strongly believe to be the most important movement in technology right now: the drive to […]
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My dear friend Cathy Seipp passed away two years ago today. Few news stories appear which don’t make me wonder what Cathy would have to say about them, and in my most difficult personal predicaments, I ponder what Cathy would advise. (”Quit whining!” would be the most likely response.)
This is a picture from four years […]
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I’m catching a red-eye tonight to New York, then heading down to SXSW in Austin, Texas on Sunday. This will be my first time at SXSW, after years of wanting to go. It’s going to be crazy busy but incredibly cool. Ping me if you’re going to be there and want to get together. (UPDATE: […]
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Greg Kumparak pretty much nails it here:
Friend: i’m not really interested in phone stuff to be honest
Me: you should be. its the future of everything ever.
Friend: I don’t like phones
Me: i hate the phone. but i like phones *
The only existing photo of me on the phone (I’m pretty sure)
Just because I’m in mobile […]
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For reasons too personal and tedious to get into, I’m not a big fan of being home on the weekends. So even if I don’t have any travel planned, I will often go to a hotel in San Francisco for Friday and Saturday nights, staying in the city right through Sunday night. (Also: I love […]
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Allow me to gloat for one second here. Please.
Back in May 2008, I wrote:
I’m loving Twitter search engine Summize, which beats former Twitter search contenders Tweetscan and Terraminds by a country mile. (God only knows what PPC on there could yield the Summize gang - it should be loads).
Shortly after I blogged that, Twitter acquired […]
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I’m shamelessly ripping off this entire post, even the title (which I believe 100 percent) from Ben Casnocha. I just love it.
On the question of “Did I want to occupy myself playing a big version of Solitaire to prove I could win, or did I want to open up and love?“, Paul Spinrad writes:
During […]
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I decided on Friday morning to get the red eye to New York after work that day. I just felt like I needed a weekend in the best city on earth. I can’t believe it’s only four and a half hours away.
I had an amazing time, better than I expected. Many thanks to Miss […]
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