About time. And product. And being more deliberate.
Lots of conversations this weeks about building online communities: forums, weblog networks, mailing list, what have you. All with organizations having a vested, commercial interest in growing a community. While they expressed skepticism about a community gathering around their commercial interest, I wasn’t concerned. It’s already happening.A group of people somewhere are already talking about …
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Via my WP-GotLucky plugin, I’ve been tracking the volume to a handful of real popular posts (really, there are some?) here at garrickvanburen.com just check out the ‘Most Popular Posts’ section to see the 10 mostest popularist. Inspired by Ze Frank’s gimmesomecandy-ducky experiment, I’m now taking money for 50 character messages on each and every …
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We’ve got a European vacation in the works and by coincidence, the Marginal Revolution has a nice U.S. vs. Europe comparison thread running. “Further, a recent study has shown that Germans and Americans spend the same amount of time working, but the proportion of taxable market time vs. nontaxable home work time is different. In …
“The 9/11 reaction that sent us into Iraq was based on our need to kick the dog after a bad day at the office. The war never made any sense and the new Secretary of Defense always knew it. – brittb”
The last few weeks have been a roller coaster of family emotions and get-togethers – from the passing of Grandma Hannah to Cooper’s first birthday. Add to that, all the family photos and stories and trees (back to 1751) my dad sent down. So, I’ve been thinking quite a bit about yesterday, and those places …
One of the reasons I’ve always been skeptical, cynical, and generally a wet-blanket on browser-only software is unreliable networks. Everywhere I go – there isn’t a network connection. So, any browser-only information I might need (email, documents, photos, etc) are completely inaccessible on my fully wifi-enable, ethernet-ready laptop. “I’ve got draft posts on Google Docs …
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“Highly-skilled labor is very mobile in this global economy” – Thomas P.M. Barnett Something to keep in mind when drafting legislation on what people can and can’t do in your state. To Madison and Milwaukee, I’m sorry.
The story of a 14-foot fiberglass beam and how it kept rural Wisconsin skateboarders happy. Listen to Unincorporated #3 – The Fiberglass Skateboard Beam [18 min]
Rex Hammock put together the exact post I didn’t have time to put together this morning. Thanks Rex. I watched the episode in question – and I found it uncharacteristically long and drawn out (it even ended with ‘to be continued’, blah). Interestingly, last night’s How I Met Your Mother used a similar storytelling technique …
I left a meeting this afternoon and as I walked through unfamiliar parking garage nothing looked familiar. The number 722 directing the way. After the first lap and not seeing 700s, I realized I didn’t understand how the different levels were laid out. I got back in the elevator and picked a different level. Found …