What’s with CNN and all the “dirty” typefaces?
February 2008
January 2008
Just received a “King Cake” from a vendor in New Orleans - I bit into the baby! http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/King_cake
How YOU Can Make the Web More Structured →
readwriteweb.com
ReadWriteWeb has a good post on how to get some bottom up structure happening on the web.
Listening to new Dengue Fever… delicious! #music
ABC is running last years season finale of #LOST with a running text commentary at the bottom of the screen - I guess for newbs.
Fondly remembering my first internet rig: an Apple IIgs with a 14kbps modem dialing up compuserve. Ahh the text based net!
Online Interruption Marketing and Why I Hate Toaster Strudel →
blog.junta42.com
Joe Pulizzi on the idiocy of interruption marketing. Don’t worry Joe, it’s only a matter of time before this kind of thing is a thing of the past.
I’m a New Jersey voter for Obama http://tinyurl.com/yr42sl
New Jersey Voter For Obama →
mturro.bluepear.org
For the first time that I can remember I, as a New Jersey voter, will be voting in a primary that actually has teeth. It used to be that Jersey held their primary sometime in June… months after the chosen one had been anointed. NOW, thanks to the wonders of Super Tuesday, I can cast a vote that has some kind of meaning - I will not cast that vote lightly. After a lot of careful thinking and a few days of the same old shit from the Clinton camp it is with a tremendous amount of…
@FoxyTunesDJ: The Hold Steady - Your Little Hoodrat Friend http://tinyurl.com/2eod9l
First experiences with nephew’s Wii and PS2 Gutiar hero last night… I can see the potential addiction clearly now.
WSJ.com Remains A Paid Site And Bets On The Value Of Its Niche Audience →
publishing2.com
A post by Scott Karp on the Wall Street Journal’s strategy to stay paid. I have to agree that everyday we are getting closer to a publishing model where the quality of the audience is more valuable than the quantity.
Playing around with Jaman… kind of digging on it.
Three hours of MTV from 1983 →
mturro.bluepear.org
I absolutely HAVE to post this… because it’s Friday, and especially because watching this makes me feel good (fond, fond memories of childhood - Hello Mr. Proust, nice to see you again). This is three hours of classic MTV spread over two videos with Mr. Mark Goodman tying it all together. I spent a shitload of time in front of the TV watching this then and seeing it again now is serious trip… like having it be 1983 all over again.
Thanks to BoingBoing and Uw Moeder.
XMPP (a.k.a. Jabber) is the future for cloud services →
jivesoftware.com
This post from Jive Software’s blog is a deeper dive into what the previous link I posted was about. The TiVo example really brought the whole issue into the clear for me.
Could Instant Messaging (XMPP) Power the Future of Online Communication? →
readwriteweb.com
A nice analysis of the potential of XMPP and Jive Software’s take on the technology’s future.
evolving nature sweeps purposely across North Jersey sporadically claiming fading industry. #poetweet
