BurningbirdOne of the most wickedly ironic moments this week was reading in Robert Scoble’s weblog about how he and Shel Israel–two men–gave a talk about weblogging to PR and marketing folks at L’Oreal: a company whose clientele is almost exclusively women. Turns out that L’Oreal, the world’s largest cosmetics maker, is one of Microsoft’s best customers. But […]
I haven’t been following much about Les blogs, until I heard about a problem with backchannels. I gather that the official backchannel for Lesblogs was more than a bit disruptive at times, resulting in Mena Trott calling one of the more disruptive participants, Ben Metcalf, an asshole during her talk on being civil in weblogging. (The post I linked has […]
I’m playing around with my new PowerBook. Well, new is a relative term –it’s a pre-owned TiBook that I bought from a friend; but I’m having as much fun with it as if it were new. Instead of my 500 MHz processor, this one is an 800 MHz processor, with double the memory (1GB). And […]
Zoë has a new place to sleep, against a pillow covered in flannel underneath the heat vent in my room. She snuggles in between the wall and the humidifier, under the table which holds my television, stereo, internet router, and various speakers. She’s out of the way but still near me, and warm against the […]
I know that many people don’t approve of zoos, but the St. Louis Zoo is one of my favorite places; especially yesterday when there was only a handful of people walking about. The trees are decorated for the evening Zoo Lights, but on a dark and dreary day you can benefit from the lights almost […]