clock — watching time, the only true currency

AOL knows how, occasionally, to make some waves in the press. Pointing out that Americans are hooked on email, with some statistics, got picked up all over the place. Addicted to e-mail? You’re not alone is the News.com summary of the survey results. I come down on the “need e-mail” portion of each one of [...]

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I’m still a big fan of owning your own words, one of the oldest ideas in electronic forums. So I’m not sure why lowering the final friction point in tagging — that of identity — is truly an advance. I agee that volume is necessary to help the more useful properties of tags emerge, but [...]

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“So for all the talk of citizen journalists, another need is citizen editors — the people who filter data and turn it into information.” [Chuq Von Ruspach]

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I don’t read my own blog that often, so I don’t always notice that the posts I’m making here on the desktop aren’t making it to the website automagically. Usually, quitting and restarting Radio Userland will do the trick.
Or maybe editing and re-publishing this time will do the trick.

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That phrase in its entirety isn’t worth repeating, but the sentiment lives on. Except that you can replace the word “opinions” with “social bookmarking services” and continue on your merry way.
While reading What’s Wrong with Commas, Anyway?, I learned about another one, Simpy.com. Of course, I already know about Spurl, Furl, del.icio.us, del.irio.us, connotea, and [...]

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I rarely listen to music, but Dave Brubeck just makes me smile. I have only a few albums, and only one ripped to iTunes, The Great Concerts. Maybe it’s lowest common denominator jazz, but sure sounds like the highest form of sound to me.

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It’s been so long since I read The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy that I felt little concern about seeing the movie this evening. I wasn’t worried that it “wouldn’t be true to the book” or anything purist like that because I could remember only the barest outline of events… and, having seen the movie, [...]

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Last week we enjoyed a mid-week night out to see The Interpreter. I really liked this film. I won’t try and put too much into that, but there you are. One ridiculous point, from the film’s website (Flash, everyone’s favorite):
The Interpreter is the first movie to be granted the honor of being able to film [...]

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Bernard Cornwell notes that the action Sharpe’s Enemy is entirely fictional. Not bad. I don’t mind a bit of license taken in the name of entertainment when it comes off well. My only lingering quibble is that Obadiah Hakeswill dies his second death in this book. I preferred the death by snake from Sharpe’s Fortress [...]

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Sharpe’s Sword gives our hero the chance to cuckold a Spaniard married to a French spy. Oh, and Wellington wins the battle of Salamanca in 1812.
I realized why these novels are reading faster and faster. Bernard Cornwell uses stock paragraphs (pages?) to describe certain things in each book. Of course, there is little reason to [...]

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