Category Archives: Wading

Old People, Lifecasting, and the Future of The Internet

Writing a review of Zazie’s breakfast. 4 stars!
Imagine a system that immediately captures every bit of information about a trip, and stores it permanently in an accessible, portable format—and on top of that, has been designed to fit your routine, not the other way around.
My parents created that system in the early ’80s, and they did it […]

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Monthly Goals: March

Just for accountability’s sake:

Blog/Journal every day – Anything. Don’t care what it is, just blog it. And IRL, some observation about life, hand-written into a journal. I plan to upload pics of the journal pages.
Reader every day – So much good stuff in my feeds lately. I need to consume more. More consumption = better output.
Finish two books […]

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Canoe Gets It

That Kaweco pen that came today? It was accompanied by two pieces of paper: one receipt,= and this policy notice. Affixed to the notice is a tiny bag of Haribo gummy bears.
When you’re going to tell someone bad news, give them some candy to soften the blow.
These guys get it; this is good customer service. Way to […]

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The YouTube Interface

Most times, I talk about YouTube in a way that goes something like, “Yeah, it’s big, but it’s ugly. I like Vimeo better.” I think I might be wrong about that. It perhaps doesn’t get enough credit for the way it looks.
When you collapse all the bits and pieces on YouTube, it’s actually a pretty decent-looking, […]

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6.5 Earthquake – Northern California

Whoa. Big earthquake near my parents’ house. They live right above the bay, north of Eureka, where you see all those little maroon fault lines running parallel to each other.
When I was a little kid, I went through an earthquake the exact same size—6.5—and despite the fact that I was in the hunting/fishing aisle of the […]

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The Steepest Street in the World

The steepest navigable street in San Francisco (and the Western Hemisphere) may be Filbert Street, at 31.5% (17º), but the steepest mostly-navigable street in the block of Broderick Street between Vallejo and Broadway. It now features a rock garden, massively steep nearly un-walkable sidewalk, and what appears to be the most frustrating driveway in the world.

THESE […]

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Joseph Ducreux: Archaic Rap Meme

This is officially my favorite meme, ever. Joseph Ducreaux: Archaic Rap.

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Pulp Wave Fiction

This is brilliant.
I also have 4 Google Wave invites remaining…

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Why I Procrastinate

Because it’s more fun this way.

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The Experimentation Imperative, v1

I’m talking this week at the Planningness Conference in San Francisco. I’m talking about the experimentation imperative within digital marketing agencies.

I’m talking about how traditional advertising got to be good, and how we can all work to improve digital marketing/advertising/whatever.

I’m also going to talk about two really interesting tropical storms.

You’ll have to wait until later to see more […]

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