Some stuff I’m reading this week…
Songbird Illustration Compendium | Songbirdnest.com
Awesome compendium of images for Songbird. Designer Jonathan Koshi rocks.
Why Twitter may lead to world peace | BostonNOW
The Little Prince encounters a fox and asks the fox to play with him. The fox replies that he can’t play with the Little Prince because he isn’t tamed. [...]
While driving up to Sonoma the other day in my lovely Zipcar (this time I picked a Mazda 3 for the iPod jack, but next time, I’m taking the Mini Cooper), I wondered to myself why anyone in close proximity to Zipcars, public transit and other great transportation alternatives would even WANT to own a [...]
Some stuff I’m reading this week…
Giving Twitter another look… - The Viral Garden
This experience has hammered home this point for me about social media: it works best when you view it as a way to create value, not as a tool to extract value. When I didn’t ‘get’ Twitter before, it was because I was [...]
[cross-posted from OpenMediaWeb.org]
One of the core messages that came out of the Media Web Meetup III: the Producers was this:
Copyright laws, DMCA, etc. were tools that were instituted to help large organizations protect themselves from large organizations, it did not imagine the negotiations of individual producers in the Open Media Web. Instead of bringing the [...]
So, on New Years Eve, a bunch of us picked a ‘Themeword’ (credit for the idea goes to Erica Douglas) and mine was pretty clearly: TRANSITION. I saw 2008 as a year of wrapping up things in progress (or things I needed to finally take care of) and moving onto my next phase in life [...]
we wander so much by Svanes on Flickr
The other day, famous San Diego Fire twitterer and all around good guy, Nate Ritter, worked the day at Citizen Space. We got into this great conversation about the worth of useless knowledge, which reminded me of some research that I ran into a while back on Information/Knowledge [...]
I’ve been working out for nearly three months now, all the while watching what I eat a little more carefully and staying committed to a pretty regular and fairly vigorous workout: 25 minutes on the elliptical trainer, 25 minutes on the treadmill (briskly walking for 5 minutes, jogging for 15 minutes, then cooling down for [...]
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