Strange word that. Inappropriate. Having spent their often wrong and sometimes evil youths complaining about “wrong” and “evil”, the non-judgementalists had to find another word for when they themselves later wanted to be judgemental.
-Brian Micklethwait, who also recently published this wonderful photo of perfect juxtaposition.
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I guess $12.95 for a five hour flight isn’t bad. Sure beats paying $2 for a pair of headphones I’ll use once (I forgot mine at home). Time really flies when I’m online, and I hope this applies at 35,000 feet…
BTW, I’ll be in New York tomorrow through Monday afternoon. My schedule is filling up, […]
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One of the most impressive people I’ve met in the last year is Harriet Meth, who was introduced to me by our mutual friend Jeff Nolan. Harriet is smart, sharp, funny and a true pro when it comes to media coaching. She’s just incredible…and now she has a blog! (And yes, Harriet, Twitter needs your […]
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Thanks to Jeff Pulver for asking me to be one of the 140 characters at his 140 Characters Conference. As the name suggests, this conference is all about Twitter and its impact.
Me with Twitter founder Evan Williams, one of my entrepreneurial heroes
I sometimes get a little exasperated with all of the press attention and non-stop […]
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I was sick last week, and thought it was mostly out of my system by Friday.
Then I woke up on Saturday feeling as though I’d been hit by a dump truck. I hurt all over, my head was killing me, and - a new development - I could barely sit up without feeling dizzy. Standing […]
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Forgive me - Miss Minarchist - for thinking this is pretty cool. One of Qik’s top users, Texas Congressman John Culberson, gave a demo of Qik to Supreme Court Justices Thomas and Breyer today during a House Appropriations Committee hearing.
Shoot, I am so happy to work on this product.
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Our team has been working on this with the Facebook team for some time, so I was very happy for us to make this announcement yesterday. The enthusiastic reception from our users has been overwhelming. Many thanks to Qik’s developers for being so damn good, working so hard, and making this work so fun for […]
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This self-portrait leads me to imagine how Victorian-era humans would react to the existence of tools like Flickr, Twitter, and Qik. I think they’d be equal parts delighted and horrified - just as people seem to be right now.
Photo from Shorpy via Brian
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I have mixed feelings about Wal-Mart. I hate shopping there, and avoid it wherever possible, because it is such an unpleasant experience. This is mostly a note on the aesthetics of Wal-Mart stores, from the lighting to the horrible smiley faces everywhere.
That said, I have a lot of respect for the Walton family. I’ve […]
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From Kevin Roose, an Ivy League student who spent a semester “undercover” at Jerry Falwell’s Liberty University in an experiment of understanding, in a Happiness Project interview with Gretchen Rubin:
I’m not an evangelical Christian, and I don’t believe that God sits on his throne in heaven watching our requests flood into his cosmic inbox. But […]
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Guido’s account of how he started the takedown of British prime minister Gordon Brown last week made the front cover of the Spectator. It’s brief, and well worth a read.
Also worth attention: Gordon Brown’s hilariously, spectacularly bogus claim that he is taking “full responsibility” for what his right-hand man was doing, and that he […]
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Yes, this does need to be explained. Johnathan Pearce does a good job:
The whole point about Hayek’s demolition of the argument for central planning and socialism is that these ideas take no account of human ignorance, of the inability of any central planner, or group of planners, to have at their fingertips all the knowledge […]
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Today, Irish deputy prime minister Mary Coughlan came to Qik HQ to help us launch Qik Roam with Irish company Cubic Telecom:
(More photos here.)
This deal is pretty special.
The upshot: You’ll never come home to a global roaming bill - astronomical or otherwise - after using your mobile device abroad to live stream Qik videos, check […]
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Amy Alkon says she’d never have written her book, “on the collapse of manners and how to change things”, due out this autumn from McGraw-Hill, if I hadn’t bugged her to do it for so long. Which pretty much guarantees that she can never again tell me that it’s rude to bug your friends.
What do […]
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