Recently readMe and Chris Heuer at CES Digital Hollywood Building Blocks
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Gosh, the organizers of this event sure did know who to call upon when they decided to throw a spanner in the works…
Don’t get excited: I did not offend or outrage anyone (to my knowledge). But it was clear from the conversation happening […]
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Half Moon Bay
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I have a feeling this post is going to make some people mad. All the more reason to write it!
Okay, so that was a good call. Half Moon Bay is simply stunning and I still can’t quite believe that it’s so close to my house. I live in such a […]
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…on the same day as TMZ, no less! Sadly, the Secret Service wasn’t keen on Congressman John Culbertson making the demo public (you can keep videos private on Qik), but the demo to TMZ happened while Culbertson was walking from an appropriations committee meeting to his office. I quite liked the shot, inside the offices, […]
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at Target today and the woman behind the counter tells me to, “have a good day, tomorrow”. What happened to today?
-@wigglesmciggles (aka Bonnie Sheehan, one of the smartest, most fun people I’ve met in the last month)
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Lately I’ve been struck by how much some people talk about their fear of what others think.
“Well, I would wear that, but I’m afraid people would think it’s too outlandish.”
“Well, I really wanted to go to the party, but I was afraid people would think I was a loser if I went alone.”
“Well, I […]
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Luke Ford is on something of a roll right now. First, a journalist asks, Who has time to read blogs? Luke answers:
Who has time to read good new books? Nobody has time to read all the good new books, yet I don’t read Daphne Merkin wondering about that…People will read what they believe they will […]
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Jeff Jarvis says that, even if everybody doesn’t “get it”* (which the Guardian’s Alan Rusbridger thinks they do):
everybody realizes they have to [innovate].
Jeff’s talking in the context of newspapers, and I dunno, maybe he’s right. Personally, I still know a hell of a lot of newspaper folk who truly don’t realise that they have to […]
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You know, I absolutely love France. Its perpetually assholish governments…not so much. Here’s the latest dangerous, stupid thing they’ve come up with: Making it against the law for anyone but ‘professional journalists’ to report on acts of violence.
The French Constitutional Council has approved a law that criminalizes the filming or broadcasting of acts of violence […]
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Having had a number of problems with Movable Type over the years, and knowing countless people who have thrown up their hands and ditched Six Apart products completely - to the point where I no longer recommend MT to clients, and actively discourage others from building their online presence with it - I was very […]
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Ice was a fantastic business, for two thousand years… they were probably having conferences like this, talking about ice ponds and straw and shipping routes…Then in 1873 a guy named Perkins invented refrigeration. And your ice business was dead.
Michael Rosenberg, quoted from Doc Searls’ shortterm memory, speaking at the IMA conference in Boston, where people […]
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When asked a long time ago to define what it meant to me, I said it’s the name we’ll give to the next crash.
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As a customer and evangelist for his products, I’m pretty cheesed off with Matt Mullenweg (someone I like enormously, having met him in San Francisco when I volunteered at WordCamp) and the Automattic team for imposing the dreadful Snap page preview bug (it sure ain’t a feature) on all Wordpress.com blogs. As someone who has […]
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One guy I really like profiles another guy I really like. Most days I find it hard to believe that anyone really reads my blog, let alone that someone as clever as Brian actually likes to read it, but I do take him at his word.
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I normally ignore the “We need to PROTECT teh pwecious blogging c0mmunity!!!!!!111111″ kind of rubbish from the usual (ignorant, deluded, collectivist) suspects, but having lately heard echoes of it from people who should know better, I think it’s time to say this:
People do not blog “for the sake of the community”. Individuals blog because they […]
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