I’ll be taking a hiatus from blogging for the rest of the month, as I finish off a few projects and gear up for a busy fall and winter.If you’re curious about what’s in the works, and why I’ve been squirreled away in the boiler room of Pink, Inc., for much of the last six [...]
BoingBoing points to this 1981 report from KRON-TV in San Francisco about the incipient move toward online news. It’s great viewing — especially the breathless factoid that 2,000 to 3,000 people the Bay Area already have a personal computer (!) and the tag identifying one of the interviewees as someone who “Owns A Home Computer.”
Thanks for reading in 2008. Here’s to a peaceful and prosperous 2009.
Today’s must-read, ironically, is an essay by the ever brilliant Kevin Kelly on the decline of word-centered, book-based literacy and the rise of something new. We are becoming, Kelly says, “people of the screen.”An excerpt:“The fluid and fleeting symbols on a screen pull us away from the classical notions of monumental authors and authority. On the screen, the subjective [...]
Webster’s New World Dictionary is choosing its word of the year for 2008. The final five candidates are: cyberchondriac leisure sickness overshare selective ignorance youthanasia Just go to the online ballot to cast your vote. But, IMHO, the choice is easy. I’d never heard of two of these words and I’ve never used two others. But one of these words I’ve [...]
I love pie. And I love charts. So I really like pie charts — especially this one. (HT: Zoomdoggle via Flowing Data)
No deep thoughts today — just a few tantalizing tidbits: The 50 Greatest Arts Videos on Youtube (HT: Arts Journal) Gretchen Rubin asks me 6 tough questions on one tough issue: happiness. School of Everything promises to connect people with stuff to teach with people with stuff to learn. It’s an “eBay for knowledge,” as Boing Boing puts it. Why didn’t I think [...]
Like most of you, I care deeply about my personal productivity. And like many of you, I’m always disappointed on that dimension of my life.One of my problems, verified by data from Rescue Time, is that I’m spending too much time on email, especially during the morning hours when I’m most productive.So this week, I’m trying [...]
A collection of confiscated Louisville Slugger mini-bats displayed at the security line of Louisville International Airport.(BEEP-BEEP-BEEP-BEEP!! . . . My metaphor detector just went off.)Photo taken: 7-17-08, 1245pm
If statisticians could fashion an on-base percentage for business gurus, Seth Godin would be Ted Williams. Nobody has a better rate of success in getting smart ideas in play.One of my favorite bits of Godin guidance is to “remarkablize” even the most mundane aspects of your business — a great example of which arrived in the mail yesterday.I subscribe [...]
