For five short days, I’m a bachelor. I’ll try not to waste it all working!

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I’ve written briefly about David Gelernter before. Now William Grosso, a “well-known speaker” I’ve never heard of throws out a short article titled “We’re all Gelernter Now“. Grosso doesn’t write much, but he does hit on the key point: “has anyone else noticed that time-based tagging is becoming more and more important to the way…

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A few days ago, I cited my limited awareness of MacOS RSS newsreaders. Just found one today, Shrook. While I don’t have a lot of time to explore, this looks like an intelligent application, and I see that the developer is smart enough to build in NNW subscription import… although Brent made the job easier…

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I’m listening to the fascinating Christopher Lydon interview of Dave Sifry, founder of Technorati. Sifry defends editors, or says the discussion/debate about editors (as witnessed — and read by both Lydon and Sifry — by Jeff Jarvis) really obsures the point: saving time. Editors save time, and the collaborative filtering does, too. Sifry says that…

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As one who has started to limit his time creating in part because of the nuisance/stress of typing, I love seeing exploration into alternative interfaces, especially ones that take more advantage of our full range of physical expression. [thanks to Steve Ivy for the link]

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San Francisco is shrinking. In this Reuters story about newly released Census data, SF is even compared to Flint, Michigan and Gary, Indiana thanks to its incredibly vanishing population. San Francisco, with a population of about 776,000 in mid-2002, joins some other famously depressed U.S. cities, including Flint, Michigan, which ranked 240 on the list…

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Lots of different things come to mind when I think about this site, but my energy is quite directed right now at family and work, not always in that order, unfortunately. This site feels like a luxury. I’d prefer to create here, rather than simply comment, but opining on other’s work is sure a whole…

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Last night I was leaning in another direction, but after consultation with my sister Laura, who also has a 12″ PowerBook, and further review here in the house, I ordered the Incase Laptop sleeve.

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Incase laptop sleeve is being used by Mike. Looks fine… looking at TidBITS didn’t come up with obvious alternatives. Google brought me to ACME MADE,Waterfield Design, Tom Bihn, and Booq. Not convinced yet, but so far leaning towards the last one — has a pocket and carrying handle, with detachable strap included, but still not…

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A good friend heard a radio interview today with the author of The Last Days of Publishing, a new novel in which “[a]n ex-editor laments the death of the book.” To my friend, the book sounded like a perfect fit for my father, who spent his working life in book manufacturing — his customers were…

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