clock — watching time, the only true currency

I finished Blink: The Power of Thinking Without Thinking, Malcom Gladwell’s second expansion of an interesting magazine article, while on vacation last week. Not having read the original magazine article, I’d be interested to do so now. I’m interested in seeing what the proper length for a narrative is. Of course, it depends on the [...]

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At Digital Hollywood Wednesday morning, on a panel with a long title (Branded Media Marketing - TV, Film, Broadband, Podcasting & Blogging, Mobile, Music and Games – Reinventing the Commerce & Media Model), a panelist, J. D. Heilprin, asked Maria Thomas, another panelist, from National Public Radio, if NPR was thinking of itself as a [...]

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But if I did have occasion to do my running indoors, I could only wish for a treadputer. Thanks to Steve Outing for calling my attention to Brad Feld’s set-up.

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Today was a day of recovery, from a vacation! And a milestone.
I started clock three years ago today. I think my pace was greater the first year, and maybe the second year, too.
It’s a marathon, not a sprint.
(Keep repeating that!)

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Jonathan Lethem’s Gun, with Occasional Music (Wikipedia page) read like a Philip K. Dick novel that wasn’t prepared to go all the way to the (crazed) edge. Similar first-person narrative, resonant mix of current culture with a future which has gone mildly awry with its reliance on central control (with a pervasive, encouraged use of [...]

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I’ll be in Los Angeles for three days at the end of March. First, on Tuesday, March 28, I’m a panelist at OMMA Expo in the afternoon, on a panel called “Does RSS = R$$? Feeding Publisher Profitability.” Then, on Thursday, March 30, I’m a panelist at Digital Hollywood’s Spring 2006 event, Alternative Media & [...]

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I picked up a slim paperback by Roald Dahl called Over to You a few months ago. This collection of short stories was initially published in 1945, pulled together from their initial appearances in various magazines of the time. All the tales spring from Dahl’s experience as an R.A.F. fighter pilot in the first years [...]

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This March 13, 2006 article from the NYTimes will disappear behind the paywall shortly, but I’ll link to it all the same, for two reasons.

To point out how a multi-brand property gets boiled down to a single audience
To bewail style guides, although I love them dearly in other contexts

The article: “Hungry Media Companies Find a [...]

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i found How the Web Was Born, by James Gillies and Robert Cailliau, on the shelves at work. It’s a scholarly, but not too dry, history of the World Wide Web, and the precedents which set the stage for its emanation from CERN in the early 1990s.
The book was written in 2000, and one of [...]

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It’s hard to see a movie after it’s reached the level of hype and acclaim that comes with being named Best Picture. Crash couldn’t (and didn’t) match up to such expectations. Some vignettes stand out, but the weaving of different lives into a single message (race is still an issue in America, with no easy [...]

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