Like yourself, I travel in a number of personal and professional circles; dad’s open gym night, neighbors, this project team, that project team, peers via podcasting, peers through information architecture, peers through visual design, etc. Each circle has different values and finds different things relevant. The chances of something I find interesting being relevant to …
Author Archives: Garrick van Buren
A Christmas to Remember
I just finished shoveling the last couple inches of the light, fluffly snow that’s been steadily falling this past week. A perfect end to the best Christmas I’ve had in two decades. Some highlights: Having my immediate family all in the same room at the same time on Christmas day. This in itself made the …
Ask Not What Twitter Can Do For You
After playing around with Twitter for nearly a year, I’ve come to an understanding with it. The less Twitter does, the better. In reviewing Jeremiah Owyang’s Twitter Wish List, I only agree with #2, a white-labeled Twitter for workgroup/company use. If Twitter doesn’t want that market, that’s cool. I know of at least 1 company …
RE: Who Benefits from the Federal Government?
“From an efficiency point of view we should be happy that the rich don’t get too much “- Alex Tabarrok
Building My Religion.xml
“Religions are the longest-lived human institutions. They are more likely to survive war, disasters, epidemics and climate change than corporations or governments.” – Phil Wolff Amen. All the religions I’ve been exposed to are “monetized” via “because of” not “with”. That is, it’s free to attend a service, but the paraphernalia cost. Throw in extra …
Everywhere You Want To Be
From a development standpoint, there’s huge benefit to developing applications in for HTML – if simply because the barrier to entry is much lower than other development platforms. In addition, there’s no vendor behind HTML. In front of – yes. Behind – No. This means a website written a decade ago still loads in today’s …
RE: Blogger Sees Red Over StarTribune’s Lack of Citation
As if I didn’t have enough reasons to grumble at the STrib – a reporter doesn’t credit their sources. Coincidentally, on a story covering questionable ethics. “Come on, Jackie. You called me about this on Thursday afternoon. We discussed the story, I pointed you to sources where you could find more info, including the email …
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“It’s Been 10 Years, You Still Amaze Me”
Today marks a decade of marriage for Jen and me. Back then, I had no idea how dramatically our relationship would improve over the years. I didn’t know that we’d catch our stride 5 years in, nor how much easier that makes things. Especially with the big stuff. All of which I owe to her. …
Cullect.com – “takes the web2 out of feed readers and I love it.”
Arik Jones, one of the people I’ve asked to try Cullect.com for a week, wrote up his thoughts two-days in: “Unlike Google Reader it doesn’t inundate you with useless UI elements….What I like the most about Cullect is the ability to recommend feeds and then being able to give friends a dead simple url. It …
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Cullect.com Screencasts
I’ve just recorded 3 Quicktime walkthroughs of Cullect: Cullect.com Overview – Unsigned In 10:40 min Cullect.com – Signing in, managing items, inviting curators, adding feeds, posting to blogs & posting to twitter 9:28 min Adding Cullect.com to Other Applications 3:44 min