clock … watching time, the only true currency

I know Jakob is both a respected figure and a lightning rod of controversy in the Web design community. I’ve continued to read his Alertbox columns every two weeks, although they don’t feel quite so insightful anymore (which probably says good things about the state of the web, however far we still have to go). [...]

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Combining Coursework and Views of Emus is a June 2 profile from the NYTimes of Millbrook School, where my stepmother teaches. She gets in the last words: Dr. Sylvia D. Roberts, a biology teacher, said that there “is a niceness that permeates the school, which is unreal in terms of today’s young people and values.” [...]

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I put out to sea once more with Aubrey and Maturin in The Nutmeg of Consolation. The Nutmeg is a ship loaned to Aubrey to replace the wrecked Diane in the South Seas, where we left our heros at the end of The Thirteen-Gun Salute. While it’s been a few months, I felt right at [...]

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I feel like I’ve seen/thought about/discussed most every single of the 101 ways to improve your news site listed… but sure is interesting to have them in one place.

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RSS Feeds Can Build Web Traffic, but Fence Sitters Note Problems is Staci Kramer’s new piece for the Online Journalism Review. I spoke to Staci, and answered some of her questions via e-mail. Although I made it clear that she need not feel compelled to use the photograph I shared, it’s there (scroll way down), [...]

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The weekend before Memorial Day, I rattled through Malcom Gladwell’s The Tipping Point. This short book does feel like an extended New Yorker article (which it is), but that is not perjorative. I found this book fascinating, and some ideas I’ve had in my head found words… well, Gladwell found the words. I never read [...]

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Short post by Craig Burton on History of Microsoft blogging ends with this description: “…blogging isn’t just extracurricular but fundamental.” I think any and all ways of communicating better — with your colleagues and your customers — are fundamental. Blogging is one very effective method for ‘scaling’ the conversation beyond the physical reach of one [...]

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Victor Lombardi lauds Storm King Art Center, an outdoor museum spread over 500 acres in farmland north of New York City. I grew up less than 30 miles away as the crow flies, but I’ve never visited. It took me five years in San Francisco before I made it to Alcatraz, and I’m still planning [...]

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