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Publishing and hiding
Bob Wyman of PubSub on the Yahoo FeedMesh group comes out with this epigram: It is very difficult to publish and hide at the same time. It’s not quite poetic, but it feels pithy, at least. The context? He’s explaining why syndication is less full of unwanted messages than, say, e-mail, because tracking the world…
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Knowing your customer
How to Sell a Candidate to a Porsche-Driving, Leno-Loving Nascar Fan is a NYTimes article looking, after the fact, at the data which drove the media decisions for the campaigns, especially the Republican campaign. The entire article, in a phrase: “Democrats watch more television than Republicans.” Yes, there is a bit more than that, with…
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Classification fun: where does your weblog belong?
In responding to my notes about topicality, Jeremy Zawodny wrote Weblog topics, blogger micro-brands, and weblog classification. I think all three themes are interesting, but the first and the last grab me enough to continue. Note: I agree with the blogger micro-brand comment Jeremy makes, but the word brand conjures a vision of The Brand…
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Track the ripples in the pond
Blogging about blogging is still interesting to many, confirming my point that we are still early, early, early in the adoption curve. Yes, the web accelerates the diffusion of innovation (years instead of decades), but we’re not there yet. Remember: very few people move at the speed of technology. Because I don’t have comments enabled,…
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Adoption matters
So, Michael Schrage has written his last column for MIT’s Technology Review. Wonder what the politics behind that decision were, given the new editor, Jason Pontin, formerly of Red Herring? Anyway, he goes out on a high note, I think, with Innovation Diffusion. Simply put: innovation isn’t what innovators do; it’s what customers, clients, and…
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Run to the Far Side, abbreviated
On Sunday, I earned my long-sleeved Gary Larsen T-shirt by running the annual Run to the Far Side road race in Golden Gate Park. Brisk, even chilly, for San Francisco, but no rain and the course runs three blocks from home, so the family came out to yell at/for me as I went by. This…
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On topic
One of the oddities for me in thinking about blogs is that there is rarely a sense of someone staying “on topic” in the sense of traditional publications. If you read the Wall Street Journal, you know what you’re going to get, and where you’re going to get it, often to the column on the…
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Movie: The Sweet Smell of Success
My Netflix queue is a jumble, and so I had a hard time remembering why I wanted to add The Sweet Smell of Success to my viewing list. Still, after a few weeks on the shelf, we watched it last weekend. I knew it was a “classic,” but black and white?! Anyway, the theme that…
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One step among many, complete
It’s boring to read a blog about the difficulty of managing a blog, so I’ll keep it brief. Two of my 10 (?) readers noticed the brief outage, but I’m glad to say things are fully back online, as I republished the entire site. That act cleaned up some macro errors along the way, although…
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After the DNS switch
The DNS change is active, at least from here. Setting up WordPress is going to take a bit longer than anticipated, though, so first I’m going to see if I can publish via Radio to the new server. If this works, I’ll republish the entire site (or try to) and then keep working on WP.
Watching time, the only true currency // A journal from John B. Roberts