clock — watching time, the only true currency

I know the folks at Webshots.com, but sometimes I forget just how many real people are using the service. For all the blog excitement about Flickr, the Alexa.com details about Webshots are a useful reminder that there are millions of people using Webshots every day. Alexa’s traffic figures are hard to compare against other data… [...]

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AOL has blocked e-mail from my domain, which is frustrating to both me and my wife. Why? Someone in the same IP range at Verio probably sent something dodgy to AOL… or so AOL says. I hope it’s truly only temporary, no more than the 24 hours cited.
Yahoo Groups has been more consistently annoying. I [...]

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I’ve been quiet about Newsburst for a while now, but there are a few more changes out there to enjoy.

Category-level stream and dashboard pages: lots of readers asked for these, and I know I wanted them, too. Stream view lets you see everything at once, but it’s nice to filter it down to a category [...]

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A run, pancakes with the kids, a bike ride, some time at Crissy Field, lunch, a nap (yes!), playing in the backyard, and dinner out shortly. Happy birthday to me (and others).
Oh, and this marks 732 days of public posting, with this post as #725. I started clock two years ago. One year ago, my [...]

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In his essay How to Start a Startup, Paul Graham throws in the following observation:
People who don’t want to get dragged into some kind of work often develop a protective incompetence at it. Paul Erdos was particularly good at this. By seeming unable even to cut a grapefruit in half (let alone go to the [...]

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A few weeks ago, Om Malik published Flickr, Yahoo Deal Rumored. Today, Jerry Yang announced that Yahoo bought Flickr while on stage at PC Forum and the Flickr blog appears to be the official announcement, at least for now. Flickr-hoo! is Om’s note calling attention to the fact that he was proven right.
Well done.
In his [...]

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As usual, I missed The Incredibles in the theaters. The DVD was released earlier this week, and the local grocery story already has it for rent. Perfect Friday night flick. Underpinned by a real story (nothing deep, but universal), The Incredibles just roars along visually. In this movie, unlike Shrek 2, the references (visual and [...]

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ETech and SXSW and IASummit all explored classification in many ways, according to various reports. Folksonomy, taxonomy, tags, etc. So, here’s a few links sparked by those events, and related posts.

Cory Doctorow’s ETech notes on folksonomy are brief but lively.
Community Engine on how IBM’s intranet will layer folksonomy on top of an impressive, exhaustive formal [...]

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Watching a few minutes of basketball with the boy this evening, and he asked me to pause the TV so he could put something away. At age 4+, TV is something that you can pause anytime, and it always has been.
In the same department, both kids expect to be able to see any photograph immediately [...]

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Eleven years ago, I enjoyed a bit of (green?) beer at a St. Patrick’s Day party. The rest is history. I’m hardly Irish, but the occasion jogs fond memories all the same.

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