Tuesday, November 22, 2011

Oakland Thanksgiving 2

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Oakland Thanksgiving 2 , a gallery on Flickr. Photos from Oakland
Saturday, April 05, 2008

The wild trail of Saturday surfing, aka synchronicity surfaces everytime

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So I am sitting here, dog snoring at my feet, devouring Coilhous e. Reading about the staff--two (apparently) LA Russians (I have been hang...

Department of Brilliant

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Just discovering the amazing photos of Brit Peter Ashworth, and the spiky pleasures of online magazine and blog Coilhouse.net , where I co...
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Quote of the Day

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"New love is like snow: it covers everything up beautifully. Marriage counseling is like shoveling." --Lois Smith Brady, writing a...
Friday, April 04, 2008

Neil Budde goes to DailyMe, news aggregator and start page

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As Paid Content and other report, former Yahoo ! news lead Neil Budde's now made public his move to DailyMe , a personalized news start...

Quote of the Day

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"Instead of stressing yourself out and checking Monster.com and Mediabistro and then dashing around the city, try this: simply sit with...
Thursday, April 03, 2008

New blogger welcome: Ryan Kuder jumps in

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Fellow Ex-Yahoo Ryan Kuder just launched his new blog; he's going to use his social media smarts to do consulting and help companies mak...

Quote of the Day

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"You only get to lose your virginity once, so choose your venue wisely." --Wisemeister Dave Winer, reflecting on the TechCrunch40...

New study: Social Networks and Connection vs. Reputation

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Good data from Canadian research firm Pollara , via MediaPost , reporting that adult social media users value the views of experts (think En...

Layoffs 3.0: Does going back make sense?

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At least three people I know who were laid off at Yahoo! have either been rehired or interviewed for jobs there. It's been interesting ...
Wednesday, April 02, 2008

Ian Rogers leaving Yahoo for start up and other changes

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Just saw the news that Ian Rogers is leaving Yahoo! for a music start up and that Karin Gilford will be taking over his responsibilities...

Measuring the Techmeme Lederboard and what the stats suggest

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Louis Gray has a good post looking at the past six months of the Techmeme lederboard and which sites have grown in reach as others have f...

Twitter & Friend Feed: The Pleasure of Permissions

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So, when I set up Twitter in earnest a few months ago, I originally wanted to use it only for good friends, people whom I cared "if th...
Tuesday, April 01, 2008

Thinking local: Tools, Information vs. Reporting, Objectivity vs. Accuracy

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I am thinking about information vs. reporting, and how communication is power (think about twitter and how intensely it's becoming the ...

The April Fools Collection

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TechCrunch : Mike Arrington going to sue Facebook over use of his image jwz : 10th year anniversary--Mozilla first home now back online. P...
Monday, March 31, 2008

April 1: It ain't just laughing

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Today was kind of a tough day; there was a death in the (extended) family, lots of work to get done post weekend, and some hard choices to w...

Blogher: New column now live

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The latest Blogher column is up; it's a roundup of some new(er) voices in the sex and relationships arena.

Shine and media: Jason's not quite right--but he is right

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Jason Calcanis has a post today about how the launch of Shine suggests that Yahoo is not taking care of its media partners. Jason's po...
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Shine goes live--Will women rush there or what?

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Yahoo's Shine , helmed by former print editor Brandon Holley , just launched this am, after weeks of beta testing. The goal here, if i...

Quote of the Day

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"I just write and talk about sex. But every woman on the Internet gets called slutty and ugly and fat (to put it lightly) no matter wha...

Scott Karp gets $2.7MM for Publish2

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Just heard Scott Karp has gotten $2.75MM in funding from Velocity Interactive Group to build out Publish2 , his social bookmarking servic...
Sunday, March 30, 2008

Quote of the Day, and then some

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"There are no more boundary any more between "species." What's a cat is a dog and vice versa. All media is social and all...

Aril 23rd: From MySpace to Hip Hop conference

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It's in the middle of the Web 2.0 Expo , but the conference danah boyd, mimi ito and others put together to share their findings from t...
Saturday, March 29, 2008

Getting into growth: StatWatch

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Louis Gray did me the kindness of including this blog in his stats review o f well-read tech blogs. Not surprisingly, but a bit to my chagr...

Questions:News, Local, Community and the future

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A koan of questions: What makes local community sites successful? How do news, activism, and information fit together? Will as many people r...

Reflections on Re:Public and the future of information

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Came back from 36 hours or so in LA with the feeling the time had been well spent; Re:Public was an energizing conference for me, with lots ...

Quote of the Day

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“No man goes to IKEA willingly. 70 of us standing around asking, "Why are you getting THAT?"” --Chris Brogan, via Twitter
Friday, March 28, 2008

Re: Public: Future of News forum

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This is the eight person panel with Jonathan Krim , Solana Larsen, Paul Steiger, Lisa Williams, Dave Cohn, Jon Funabiki, and some others. Fo...

Brewster Kahle-My enduring hero

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Just learned via NYTimes that Internet Archive & Alexa and WAIS founder Brewster Kahle has arranged for low-income housing projects...

Re:Public: Measuring success in citizen journalism panel

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Jan Schaffer moderating; Margaret Duffy presenting a study on exploring citizen journalism; they discovered the sites often have gatekeepe...

This just in: Newspaper ad revenue plunge below 2001 levels

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Editor & Publisher just posted NAA news that as revenues for newspaper--we're talking print here--have dropped below the lowest le...

Re:Public: John Kelly and the network media ecosystem

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"Looking at the *newsroom* of bloggers: Columbia grad student and smart person John Kelly is describing how his project does statistic...

Re:Public: David Weinberger

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Dr. Dave is up now @Re:Public; Dave Weinberger is one of my heroes--such a brilliant man, and a ClueTrainer , of course; his other two books...

Quote of the Day

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"I often tell my wife to plan on having wireless Internet on trips just like you plan on eating on trips because the Web has become suc...

More Re:Public--Roberto Suro talk

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Roberto Suro at Re:Public discussing participatory journalism and the journalism of participation, aka democratic governance (Susan sez : ...

Opening session: Re:Public

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Starting up at Re:Public with about 175-200 attendees, many from the non profit and progressive media worlds, many from academia, a few fro...

Noted

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Paid Content: Congrats to Rafat and Stacy on hitting this latest stage of staffing and growth.( Looks like the server might be down. ) Om M...
Thursday, March 27, 2008

Quote of the Day

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"According to interviews and recent surveys, younger voters tend to be not just consumers of news and current events but conduits as we...

One brain drain versus another

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Had dinner with a friend last night who is an ex- Yahoo . Heard this week that Matt McAlister and Greg Yardley are both leaving/have left...

Layoffs 3.0: Big vs, Small, Start Up vs. Your Own

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Six weeks since I left Yahoo! and what a journey it is turning into. As painful as it is, there is something to be said for the forced disr...
Wednesday, March 26, 2008

Blogs: What they're worth--or not

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Douglas A. McIntyre at 24/7 Wall Street takes a run at valuing various popular blogs and explains his methodolog...

Matt McAlister going to Guardian UK

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Jemima Kiss has a story about Matt McAlister heading off from Yahoo to work at the Guardian , UK. Matt's going to lead a new develope...

Like wow, Progressive Strategy Brain goes live

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As someone who is both interested in progressive movements and in mind-mapping and concept-mapping software, this note about a new map fro...

WePlay: Community for kids, parents, teams

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Mike's got some sharp words for WePlay , the kids sports network community play that just raised some new funding. He says that kids a...
Tuesday, March 25, 2008

The McCain Girls: Is this satire, hope so

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Tell me this is serious...just can't be.

Finding the bliss in bickering: New column up at Blogher

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My new column went up at Blogher last night.

Fast Company on AOL: Dead Man Walking

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Fast Company is truly re energizing itself and this article on AOL is excellent. One of my favorite quotes: "Neither Time Warner's ...
Monday, March 24, 2008

Quote of the Day

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"The recruiter scheduled a phone interview and gave me advice about how to prepare for it. First, review algorithms, data structures, ...

Twitflit: Managing the morning ritual

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So my new thing is to get up, hit FriendFeed, then twitter, then facebook, then TechMeme, then my gmail, then the NYTimes. On the way throu...
Sunday, March 23, 2008

Quote of the Day

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"How do I deal with email now? I scan the from and subject fields for high payoff messages. People I know who don’t waste my time, or w...

Congrats, Diane Cole!

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Congratulations, Diane! My old friend Diane Cole and her new husband Phillip Barrett, are profiled in the Sunday times on the occasion of ...

YouTube Music Sunday: TerraNaomi

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Found this really lovely singer on YouTube this am (while looking for Amy Winehouse ).
Saturday, March 22, 2008

Loving this: Quote of the Day

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"Emblematic of this diversity as I hung out with old friends and met new ones, I was struck over and over by how many people had multip...

What's Next: Building the Path

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Part of figuring out what's next for me involves lots of talking with other people. It's amazing how spending time with someone with...

Quote of the Day

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" The average MIT graduate wants to work at Google or Microsoft, because it's a recognized brand, it's safe, and they'll ge...
Thursday, March 20, 2008

Ellen Spertus at Google sponsored Girl Geek Dinner

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Forgot to post this; Ellen Spertus' piece is priceless, amusing, brilliant--starts about 2:15 minutes in.

Bridge of Sighs: Is gender balancing stupid, or what is Google thinking?

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Just read a post at kottke.org pointing out that the upcoming Google developer conference has 38 male presenters and one woman. Jason also p...

Facebook: 10 months and counting(down)

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So I've been using Facebook for 10 months. I have over 1,000 contacts and I get about 10 emails a day there, half from people I know, t...

Quote of the Day

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" I can say that, from what I’ve observed so far, these are things that computers can do for us, to make the social computing experienc...

More thoughts on Mike's *blogging biz* post

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Mike's pos t on the big revenue opportunities for star bloggers and their blogging networks--and the related shift from nice and friendl...
Wednesday, March 19, 2008

(Another delicious) Quote of the Day

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"If I see another business plan for a social network, I might blow my brains out. It seems like 2000: Everything is the next big social...

Quote of the Day

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"...Well, all this money flowing into the blogosphere is disrupting the complicated and emotional, but also stable way things are done....
Tuesday, March 18, 2008

NYC Gov Paterson tells media and public he strayed-as did is wife

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NYTimes article on how new NY Governor Paterson was sworn in, then promptly held a news conference, wife at his side, to disclose the other...

Quote of the Day

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"We are in the middle of a disruptive change in the media landscape brought on by two-way interactive media. No longer do we simply rel...