BurningbirdRecovered from the Wayback Machine. Business Week: With little effort, Arrington got dozens of sponsors, mostly Web 2.0 startups and VCs, to bankroll the party he held Friday at August Capital. So after a night of revelry, Arrington had pocketed an extra $50,000. Now that’s something to blog about. Satire is dead in Silicon Valley
Recovered from the Wayback Machine. “Is it a scary ride, Mommy? Will it go loop-de-loop and make me throw up?” “Let’s hope not, dear. If you get sick, we’ll just have to go home.” Hugh MacLeod (comment315): Actually Shelley, the more I read you, the less I think of you a champion of people whose voices […]
Recovered from the Wayback Machine. I wrote a post in Just Shelley about my reasons for dropping Burningbird. Chief among them is not having the energy to continue to ‘feed the monster’, as Sheila aptly puts it. What does feed the monster are posts such as this: over the top, sensationalist, faked outrage, petty bickering. There’s such […]
Recovered from the Wayback Machine. I’m looking at all the possible areas where one can apply Ajaxian technologies to a weblog. Some uses strike me as just pushing the bits around for the fun of it. Others, such as my live preview for comments, seem to be so handy they’re worth having JavaScript turned on. […]
Question: how much money did the tooth fairy bring you for the last tooth you lost? A quarter? A dollar? What, you say you don’t believe in the tooth fairy? How can you not believe in the tooth fairy? After all, chances are you’ve received evidence of the tooth fairy’s existence. I bet there’s any […]