clock … watching time, the only true currency

Agony is holding your one-year-old child for the “routine” blood tests (venipuncture is the term), and watching the technicians (a label I wanted to turn into a curse) stick your infant three times while they dig for a vein. First the left arm, at the elbow. Then the right arm, same place… same lack of [...]

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I’m looking forward to having TiVo available for this year’s Tour de France. Four more days until Saturday’s prologue. I probably won’t visit the official English site of the Tour de France very often during the Tour, since I’d rather watch it for myself. Be warned, though: www.tourdefrance.com (deliberately not linked) seems to be bad [...]

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Alex Salkever offers “The Scoop on CNET” over at BusinessWeek. There is a companion Q&A with CEO Shelby Bonnie: “CNET’s CEO: “We Can Be Switzerland”.”
Always interesting to see external viewpoints about what we’re doing. In the main piece, I found this quote interesting:
Yet, CNET is still struggling to become a well-known brand beyond the Internet. [...]

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After spending the last few hours figuring out travel plans for a weekend in July, I know that I miss having a travel agent. The internet is often about self-service and removing the intermediary, but time is money, too… and I just spent a lot of my personal currency. (Eventually, I spent some dollars, too.)
Spent [...]

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Tom Clancy certainly writes some of the best “long trip without children” books around. Only problem is, I can never remember if I’ve read them all or not. I’m close, at least on the real ones (none of that OpCenter stuff). Two weekends ago, I polished off The Sum of All Fears. I’m fairly sure [...]

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Commuting on a train is a great time to get a lot of reading done. For The Truelove, I have the MBTA (Massachusetts Bay Transit Authority) to thank. The Truelove is book 15 in the Aubrey-Maturin series by Patrick O’Brian.
Most striking about this book was having a woman character on board, an Australian convict stowaway [...]

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The RSS Weekly webcast today went well, I thought. I’d be curious to get some feedback from the audience, whatever there was of it.
A recurring topic was the metrics required of RSS readers/feeds for advertising purposes. If full-text feeds are the desired goal, then, yes, advertising models need to work for all parties (readers, marketers, [...]

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Some time ago, I bookmarked an audiocast, XML Content Syndication – Beyond the Blogs. Originally recorded April 1, 2004, I listened to its this evening, several weeks later. Nothing new to me, but definitely some A-listers. There is a 21 page transcript, which I didn’t realize until 30 minutes into the 48 minute recording. Oh [...]

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On Thursday at 10am PT, I’ll join a group of interesting folks for Monetizing Weblogs and RSS feeds, a webcast. I’m very curious what the experience will be like. Here’s the other panelists:

Jeff Jarvis, president, Advance.net
Jim Pitkow, CEO, Moreover
Florian Brody, director, business development, Red Herring
Rafat Ali, editor/publisher, paidContent.org

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Just returned from two weeks bouncing around the East Coast, working and visiting in Boston, New York, and northeastern Pennsylvania. A good trip, connecting with friends and colleagues, but I’m happy to be back in San Francisco. When my body time clock resets on Pacific Time later this week, I’ll really be glad to be [...]

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