clock — watching time, the only true currency

I wonder if this or that matches what Dave Winer is talking about. I think it’s close… which is a coincidence. Happy or not, we’ll see.
P.S. It’s early. I don’t pretend the “a-ha” moment here is 100% clear. Work with me. Want to create one of your own? Let me know and you can be [...]

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So Coop is podcasting. I love that audio + feed = podcast. Not quite 1 + 1 = 2, but it’s not rocket science. Tools need to get better, though, because even that simplicity is not as easy to create as it should be.

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Whether you call them tag clouds, heat maps, or just eclectic ransom notes, I think visual presentations of content via oddly-sized labels are fun to look at. They may even be usable. But let’s not worry about that just yet.
Take a look at an experiment: a tag cloud for News.com. Instead of user-applied tags, these [...]

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I’m not a follower of the Getting Things Done (GTD) threads that weave through so much of the blogosphere. I’m sure I could improve my habits and my life in many ways, but I like to believe that it’s will, not methods, that matter. That’s for me, individually.
For working as a team, though, process — [...]

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Michael Tchong made it through the bust years in technology and came out the other side with Iconoculture. Occasional gems keep me subscribed to the email newsletter… this is one of those gems: Lawn Smarts.

Think kickball with (loose) lawn rules.
I’d probably be sore for a week if I played this with the right (wrong) crowd, [...]

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I had a long drive without the family this weekend, so in what I took for a spark of brilliance, I decided to find an audiobook online to bring with me in the car. I Googled away for a free book, and ended up at Project Gutenberg, which has a small selection of Audio Book, [...]

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A milestone for the girl, marked by a wide smile through chocolate cupcake frosting. That’s powerful stuff.
I’m not talking about the frosting.

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I recently finished the July/August issue of The Atlantic. Formerly The Atlantic Monthly, the magazine is now published 10 times a year, and (thanks, Peter) is moving from Boston to Washington, D.C. (old article from April, now behind the pay wall at NYTimes.com). History and geography aside, I enjoy reading the magazine… but most of [...]

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Narendra noticed that Walt Mossberg blogs about baseball (Red Sox fan… boo!)… and Walt commented. Nice!

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Warning… loosely coupled thoughts ahead.
I didn’t go to Korea, so I didn’t hear Simon Waldman’s talk at the World Editors Forum, but at least he posted the gist of his speech. As the Director of Digital Publishing for Guardian Newspapers, Waldman sits at the intersection of how people stay informed, at least in the UK. [...]

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