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Months ago, after at least a couple years of just throwing all my feeds in Google Reader and sorting by newest, reading from the top down and marking all as read when I felt full of [...]
All about Ideas
When all I have left is my Fun folder, I win
March 6, 2010
Five
February 1, 2010
When I started this blog, in my first week as a Mass Communications graduate student at San Jose State, it was called “Big Silver Robot,” it was hosted at Blogspot, and it was anonymous. That lasted for about a month.
Pretty quickly, I signed up for a free WordPress instance at Blogsome, where I enjoyed a [...]
Don’t do this
January 21, 2010
Hugh MacLeod is certainly one of my favorite cartoonists around. I’ve bought business cards with one of his drawings on the back before, and I’m happily subscribed to his e-mail newsletter, where he’s gone the way of Jason Calacanis and cut down on blogging while ramping up (well, on and off) an old school broadcast-like [...]
Notes on the Cleverness Economy
January 20, 2010
As a young aspiring writer (of what, I didn’t know), I wrote an awful lot of words in notebooks for the better part of the 1990s, and I mean “an awful lot” to have multiple meanings in this case.
All self-deprecation aside, one of the easiest, most satisfying ways to string words together was to attempt [...]
IdeaLab: Q&A 2.0
January 16, 2010
Over at the PBS IdeaLab blog, I wrote something earlier this week about what I think of as Q&A 2.0, the recent string of modern, general purpose question & answer sites exploring different ways to gather, filter, and deliver information.
And that’s the right way to think about it: Gather, filter, and deliver information. That’s a [...]