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Net Community
In yesterday’s Good Morning Silicon Valley, by John Paczkowski: That’s always been the problem with Net community: people Want to know why social software is doomed? Digg Corrupted: Editor’s Playground, not User-Driven Website, Suspicious Digging, Digg Censors Stories That Offend Sponsors, Digg Corrupted and Digging Fraud. I disagree. Continue reading
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National Sense of Smell Day
Start thinking about smells because Saturday, April 29, is National Sense of Smell Day. Continue reading
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English Anguish
I’ve recently discovered Evoca. I got there through digg and an excellent little audio essay called English Sucks, recorded by a woman who calls herself “The Sphynx.” Continue reading
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Welcome to Evoca
Evoca makes it very simple for everyone to instantly create, organize, share and search voice recordings. Continue reading
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Decisiveness
Contrary to popular belief, your decisions don’t drive your long term success – your decisiveness does. Continue reading
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Addicted to the Computer?
In today’s commentary, I discuss a topic for a possible article in the the SF Chronicle and my reaction to the topic. I had a nice chat with the reporter. The complete article can be found at: http://vlb.typepad.com/commentary/2006/04/addicted_to_the.html Continue reading
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Addicted to the Computer?
[This essay has been hanging about since February, waiting for the Chronicle to publish their article. It’s beginning to look like that isn’t going to happen. So… here we go.] I am a member of the San Francisco Chronicle’s Two Cents program (a pool of people who agree to be accessible to The Chronicle via… Continue reading
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The Day The Earth Shook
One hundred years ago, at 5:12 am on Wednesday morning, April 18, 1906, San Francisco (and other parts of northern California) endured the infamous San Andreas earthquake. Continue reading