Tomorrow, Thursday, September 15, 2005, I’m moderating a panel at a meeting of the San Francisco chapter of the American Marketing Association: Blogging: Leveraging Blogs for Marketing, an Evolution of Journalism. A bit of a mouthful, but read the description and I think you’ll see why I’m interested and involved. Thanks to David Shimada for…

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frieNDA n. An agreement between friends to “non-disclose” confidences without formal paperwork, such as an NDA. A necessity in the Bay Area (and beyond). Talking with a friend recently, I traded some information, after we assured each other that this wasn’t to be shared more widely. I said, “Yes, this is all under frieNDA.” To…

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Few things more useful in the world of general knowledge than an accurate representation of the world: a globe. Of course, every map is out of date shortly after it’s printed, but the physical form of a globe certainly helps reinforce the reality, even if the labels and colors and lines move over time. I…

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Found this older post by Tim O’Reilly on Books That Have Shaped How I Think. Several quotes in there which resonate, especially: Wilson also shaped my relationship to books. So many critics write about literature and philosophy as a dead thing, an artifact. Wilson writes about it as a conversation with another mind about what…

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If you’re into web development, check Anil Dash’s predictions for Web Development in 2006. I’m not playing with the sharp end of the programming stick, so I don’t have the skills required to jump in here. The list is compelling (even if I’d quibble about some of it, in my uninformed way) since I agree…

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I haven’t turned to the LazyWeb often because I don’t have many readers, but maybe there’s just enough with the right bent. The question: What’s the best example on the web today of listing several hundred (or thousand) RSS feeds in a useful way, so readers can find the feed(s) they might be interested in…

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I suspect Jakob Nielsen enjoyed tweaking Chris Anderson (or just grabbing attention) by titling his latest Alertbox “The Slow Tail.” Useful research brought to light, demonstrating that some things take time, even purchases from buy-focused links on search results pages. But the name was even better. Long Tail, eat your heart out.

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C.S. Forester wrote other seafaring historical novels besides the Hornblower books. To the Indies is a retelling of Christopher Columbus’s third journey to America by a Catalan lawyer who accompanies the (now) Admiral on a fact-finding mission for the crown. Published in July 1940, this one hasn’t stood the test of time quite so well.…

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Fun morning spent watching part of the San Francisco Grand Prix bike race. I checked the final results and saw that, as expected, the lone racer out in front of the pack for several laps was gobbled up. In fact, the lone race – Michael Creed of the Discovery Channel team – didn’t even finish.…

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When you’re in the mood for definitive history, pick up N. A. M. Rodger’s The Command of the Ocean, subtitled “A Naval History of Britain, 1649-1815.” Like most of the non-historian audience for this book, my entrypoint to the “wooden world” was Horatio Hornblower and, more recently, Jack Aubrey. (The Wooden World is the title…

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