Everyone is entitled to my opinion (with a nod to David Brinkley).
Posted in Uncategorized on Jul 21st, 2008
It’s the day after PodCampBoston3 and I’m trying to digest and internalize the experience. Chris Penn and Chris Brogan always emphasize acting on the inspiration you get from going to PodCamp. This post is about an idea that I think I will act on at the next PodCamp I go to. But since that may […]
Posted in Uncategorized on Jul 7th, 2008
Preface: I’m not really happy about the conceptual uniformity of this post, but I wanted to get the ideas out. There are really two things I’m talking about. First is the idea of a Personal Publishing site identified by my OpenID rather than accounts on individual publishing or messaging services. The second is the notion […]
Posted in Uncategorized on Jun 30th, 2008
I can usually restrain myself from kvetching about bad English. I will admit it’s a thing with me. I see red when people make plurals with apostrophes. I wince when my friends online insist on using your when you’re is called for, their when they’re is needed or write then when they mean than.
Even though […]
Posted in Uncategorized on Jun 30th, 2008
Adults Only airline flights. Not that some adults can’t act like babies, but wouldn’t it be nice to get on an airplane and not have to play toddler tantrum roulette with your seating assignment?
Adults Only restaurants. I’m paying $200 or more for my wife and I to enjoy an exquisite dining experience. Can I please […]
Posted in Uncategorized on Jun 6th, 2008
I sent the following letter to the editor at the New London Day this morning.
The Democratic Party and indeed the nation owe Rep. Charles Rangel of NY (Dem 15th) a well-deserved “Thank you, sir!” According to accounts released yesterday, it was Rep. Rangel who delivered a much-needed dose of cold reality to Sen. Hillary Clinton […]
Posted in Uncategorized on May 25th, 2008
People are blogging and commenting on Twitter’s blog about Twitter’s current degraded service status. I will admit to being torn about this. Being a developer myself, I know the kinds of strange and inscrutable things computer systems will do for no apparent reason. I myself have a website that I haven’t done much with lately, […]
Posted in Uncategorized on May 22nd, 2008
There has been a lot of discussion today both on Twitter and in the blogosphere about @arielwaldman’s lack of success in getting Twitter to enforce its terms of service regarding harassment and abuse. This is the most visible TOS incident due to her name recognition, but there have been less publicized incidents involving @Dayngr […]
Posted in Uncategorized on May 21st, 2008
I like “unconferences” like PodCamps and BarCamps. These are conferences that are user-generated, the meeting equivalent of open-source software. They’re usually no or low charge and there’s no profit-making agenda behind them. Their purpose is to bring people together to help each other out. Sessions are done by attendees, as opposed to “big name” invited […]
Posted in Uncategorized on May 20th, 2008
BarCampBoston3
I had the pleasure of speaking at BarCampBoston3 this past Saturday in Cambridge, MA on the topic “Distributed Twitter”. This was a well-attended event and the geek energy was high! BarCamps attract and cater to hard-core coders and implementers. Not many marketing, PR or media types were in evidence, but there were quite a few […]
Posted in Uncategorized on May 13th, 2008
Waiting to be seated for what turned out to be just elegant sushi at Haruki East in Providence last Friday night, Hilary Mason and I were chatting about my current interest of trying to create an open and distributed Twitter-like microblogging design. “I’m concerned that might destroy the Twitter community”, she said. I was somewhat […]