About time. And product. And being more deliberate.
This morning marks the completion of the first full backup I’ve done in quite a while. But not the last. For the past 3 months, I’ve been working on an automated backup system – so I no longer need to wonder if things are backed up. They are. In at least two places. A little …
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Last night, I had bad dream about attending a live recording of a radio program. From what I can remember, the point of the show was to dismiss highly-personal communications as trivial while a panel of teen girls shared the melodramatic relationship unfolding within their MySpace pages. While “trivia” (or gossip) might not be the …
I’ll be in the audience of tonight’s recording of MPR’s The Loop: Digital Divisions. Hopefully I’ll see some you there as well. My notes and thoughts from the event: All the chairs are filled. A good cross-section of Minnesotans. Far more diverse in age, background, and ethnicity than the last time I was here at …
Many thanks to AJ for putting together the first Minnesota PodSafe Music Awards and asking the PodcastMN community to help pull it together. If you haven’t hear my voice in a while…I introduces the nominees and announced a couple of the winners. Listen to the MN PodSafe Music Awards
Daddy Types is collecting thoughts for Soon-to-Be-Dads. Mine: Everyday, take your family for a walk. And a bonus story: One of our neighbors rang the doorbell one night back when Little C was just a few months old. Jen and I were watching TV and I was giving Little C his early evening bottle. The …
“The future of media is to stop boring us with news that doesn’t relate to our lives. I’ll start reading my ‘local’ newspaper again when it covers my block.” – Chris Anderson Chris nails the idea I’ve talked about on this blog (1, 2, 3) and in numerous lunches: the blog-on-every-corner news. St. Anthony Village …
I took the ColorQuiz 3 times this afternoon. Hear the results
A couple very recent quotes on balancing your life from two of my favorite bloggers: “5. People have only so much toleration for novelty in them; no one embraces novelty consistently and in all fields of life. Spend your tolerance for novelty wisely.” – Tyler Cowen 23.”Running a startup is full of extreme ups and …
“I hate it when RSS scrapers steal my content” – Thord Daniel Hedengren Yes – crediting the source is polite. I make a point of linking back and crediting, and expect the same those of you that find what I write interesting. That said, spammers are inherently rude. They don’t change their ways when asked …
My 2 most recent pet peeves: Permalinks that are actually Feedburner redirects. Feed links that are actually Feedburner landing pages Anyone else or just me? LATER: Some elaboration as requested by Jake Parrillo from the Publisher Services Team: Jake, Thanks for the note. To start, I use NetNewsWire as my aggregator. By redirects, I mean …