January 2010
1 post
A top 5 list of lists of lists
1. Fimoculous — most categories
2. Metacritic — data pr0n
3. Acclaimed Music — spreadsheets!
4. Largehearted Boy — most complete for books and movies
5. Kottke — superfluous
December 2009
3 posts
“That a community may no longer please its creator is hardly relevant. Once...”
– Jeffrey Zeldman
November 2009
5 posts
A stick in the dirt
This is a blog post. I should have written one yesterday, but I was tired, and I rationalized. I knew that if I didn’t post, I’d be out of the running for a Nablopomo prize. But what were those prizes? A hand-embroidered bookmark? No-sew fleece blanket? Lovely items crafted by lovely people, I’m sure, but not worth running myself ragged. “This is for me, not for the...
The first day of the rest of my month
To try something again after many failed attempts, I always have to convince myself that something external has changed. Otherwise I’d be trying something over and over expecting different results, and people tell me that was Albert Einstein’s definition of insanity… although frankly I’ve heard that so many times that I don’t believe it at all.
Anyway right now, I’m seeing a lot of externalities...
September 2009
2 posts
August 2009
1 post
Corralling the Cool Kids
The more social Google Reader gets, the more it vindicates my tendency to eschew the blogs everyone else is reading. All my friends are reading Scoble, so when he says something interesting I know it’ll trickle down — like it just did:
So, the other day when I signed onto FourSquare for the first time in a while I found 442 people waiting for me. As I looked through the names I saw the same...