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Watching time, the only true currency // A journal from John B. Roberts

Day: April 28, 2004

  • Opening eyes to the Wiki

    Several weeks ago, my team started using a Wiki (collaboratively edited website… more. While it took longer than I expected to get going, the results have been more than I expected: it really is (slowly) changing the way we communicate with each other. This morning, I introduced the Wiki to a large group internally. I…

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  • Music from the past

    I went to an alumni event for my high-school this evening, and Chris Gallagher was playing some of his new music. I haven’t seen or heard from Chris in 15 years (literally), but I remember him singing “California Dreaming” a cappella in morning chapel back in 1987. Seems he did several things along the way…

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  • Congratulations or apologies?

    If you were baby Trixie, do you think you’d be touched by your website, or embarrassed? Since Trixie is less than a year old, she has no say in the matter. I’ve been delinquent in keeping my kids’ websites updated, but I certainly have tried to make sure I embarrass my children even before we…

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  • Free is such a powerful word

    There’s no price like free. Killjoys tell us that nothing is free, you just don’t know what you’re paying since it’s not cash (they’re right, but let’s skip over that inconvenient fact). But watching the buzz about music.download.com start to build, it’s obvious that the appeal of free isn’t dead. What’s on offer? Free music.…

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