BurningbirdFor the first time in about five years I felt like celebrating Christmas; not much, just a little. I went to Big Lots yesterday and got some inexpensive lights to put around the windows and the steel guard on our deck. We won’t have a tree, of course, but I do like the lights. When […]
Susan Mernit pointed to an SF Weekly article on Craigslist founder Craig Newmark. Though she liked what the author, Ryan Blitstein, had to say, Susan expressed concern that he did not mention any women in the article–especially among the media critics. I’ll get into Susan’s concern later, tying it into something else I’m writing. For now, though, I […]
Recovered from the Wayback Machine. Kevin Marks writes today: I got edited out of the history of Podcasting again by a mysterious IP address 82.108.78.107 If you do a whois lookup on this address, you can see it was Adam Curry. I did previously reinsert this reference to my Bloggercon demo with citations, and I don’t […]
To Danny Ayers: first on the newest member of his family (Eric?), and also on being invited to participate in the new Corante Hubs. Congratulations also to Euan Semple for being awarded the Information Professional of the Year at the International Information Industry Awards ceremony. That is a very nice looking award, and you’re allowed big head time […]
I received a coupon special from a neighborhood auto shop that’s just joined a national car care organization. As part of the special, the shop would do a complete car preventative maintenance check. I called and asked if performing an analysis of a Check Engine Light would be part of this effort, and they said “Sure!” This […]