clock — watching time, the only true currency

Can’t clear my head enough to add much of use right now, but I’m listening, reading, consuming all the same.

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I hope Byrne Reese and the others at Six Apart can lift TrackBack up a level via Submitting TrackBack as an Internet Standard. Ever since November, 2004, CNET News.com has supported TrackBack. Heck, we even put out a press release about it 13 months ago.
Results are mixed. A few gems, but lots of spam (most [...]

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Now even book websites have Flash intros. This is not progress.
The Dante Club by Matthew Pearl is jumping on The Da Vinci Code bandwagon for pseudo-historical fiction, which I classify as fiction involving real people. Paperback edition even has a Dan Brown blurb almost as prominent as the title… guess it worked, because I bought [...]

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I often appreciate the comic strip Rhymes with Orange. The single pane forFebruary 21, 2006 is spectacular, and all parents of those under the age of 10 will understand.
Also, nice URL scheme, as documented here. http://www.rhymeswithorange.com/home.php?date=YYYYMMDD is the format.
This strip, from yesterday, actually shouldn’t be online yet (delay of two weeks to favor the paying [...]

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My sister Mary performed at Mardi Gras this year, in the first post-Katrina festival. Not her first Mardi Gras, not her first performance… but her first appearance in the New York Times, on page B7 of the print edition of the paper for February 21, 2006.
I saw a thumbnail online, similar to what I show [...]

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I run Measure Map on clock to stay somewhat apprised of who’s reading what on this blog. I’m an alpha customer, so I paid attention last week when Google purchased the company from Adaptive Path. I don’t pretend to know Google’s strategy on analytics, but I am curious, personally, to know what the long-term cost [...]

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Jeremy Zawody provies a useful annotation of Tom Coates’s Future of Web Apps presentation. Jeremy writes that his version is “translated for Product Managers.” I’d have to argue that the translation is less important than two other benefits.

Pulling information from the data island that is PDF.
Shorter is better. The answer to Media-induced ADD… the new [...]

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Just a quick rant: will United Airlines please hurry up and go out of business, and free up the air routes from San Francisco to someone hungrier?
Maybe I should be careful what I wish for, but I’m ready to pursue the unknown over the known… and for a relatively cautious person like myself, that speaks [...]

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Michael Jecks’s The Last Templar is the first of a series of mysteries set in medieval England. I picked it up because I wanted a mystery, and there were a score of titles on the shelf with the same author and theme. Worth an airplane read, which is what it was… but this introduction to [...]

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It was only six months ago that Gabe Rivera asked Is blog search big?, partially in response to my wondering whether we’re swimming in the mainstream yet.
Today, Scott Karp riffed on the Gallup poll which points out that the audience for blogs is relatively flat.
Blogging and the Elusive Mass Audience, which really should have been [...]

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