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Here is the sad truth: "Being smart has been rendered useless and even damning in American politics and media."
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A striking reminder that just because the digerati have forgotten about an entity doesn't mean the rest of the populace hasn't
Month: September 2008 (Page 2 of 2)
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Joel says this now works for passwords… as a chronic "forgot password" link clicker I'll have to try it
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Whee!
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New favorite website: 10 years of searchable flight arrival histories. "Hm, I'm looking at JetBlue flight 164, how late is it in January?" Bingo!
I don’t terribly enjoy re-commemorating 9/11 on an annual basis, but there seems to be a greater focus on it today than last year, and I’d be remiss not to solemnly nod in assent.
This page was and still is a destination for people seeking individual stories about the event. There are two:
My blog posts about the event, September 11-23, 2001
Adam Oestreich’s first-person account, September 12, 2001
Adam’s story still receives thousands of page views annually.
Twitter from the Cradle in today’s New York Times, editorializing mine:
“A host of new sites, including Totspot, Odadeo, Lil’Grams and Kidmondo, now offer parents a chance to forgo the e-mail blasts of, say, their newborn’s first trip home [yes! no more “I’ve shared photos at the Gallery”] and instead invite friends and family to join and contribute to a network geared to connecting them to the baby [what?] in their lives.”
I have the same problem with this as I do with sites like Dogster. It’s not about the baby–it’s about the parents. It’s not like my friends and relatives are going to set up Totspot accounts; they’re going to create ersatz online identities for their kids (those who have kids) and role-play. And that’s where it loses me.
I could, for example, make a Totspot page for Nate, or create a linkroll on his site to Stella and Mack and Olivia, et al. But what does it mean when Nate doesn’t even know the dog’s name yet, much less his “friends”? Or that he hasn’t even met Stella in person?
I love my son’s baby blog. It is already a great keepsake and chronicle of his early life. As for the social network, I’ll let him forge that for himself.
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"Warner Music Group raised eyebrows last month when it yanked a promising downloadable single and album from new U.K. chanteuse Estelle off iTunes in a bid to … boost sales." That's great, until consumers look for free downloads elsewhere online, and bypass the sale channel entirely
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And Obama has sketchy church ties?
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My favorite find of the day: "hey, free dummy" was once in the New Yorker
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Thought-provoking post from a working mom with a special-needs infant of her own (with 100+ comments that are impassioned and largely worth reading)
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Priceless. Mat, were you behind this too?
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I love that a real estate blog whose stock in trade is "new construction 33% windowed!" posts has half a dozen classifieds listings for $5 million-plus apartments
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"Perhaps the most misguided, dispassionate and lackluster professional sports logo produced in recent time." Kind of what you'd expect from an owner who is redefining buying a pro sports team as his toy