Monthly Archives: July 2009

Two thoughts on being a person.

Someone found a comment of mine on Fred Wilson’s blog.  He then took it apart into one line.  I realized that one line would make a good piece of art by itself.  Thanks! I also realized that I feel sort of wierd writing here.  It feels all levels of wrong if you break topic.  What [...]
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A Brief History of the Last Two Times Newspapers Dealt with Tech

Image via Wikipedia As a medium of outward bound communication, Newspapers are about as old as the book.  The first agreed upon Newspaper was the Relation aller Fürnemmen und gedenckwürdigen Historien, published in 1605 by Johann Carolus in Strasbourg, not much later than the invention of the Gutenberg Press , somewhere between 1439 and 1450 [...]
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A Precursory Look at Reed’s Law

Image by Getty Images via Daylife So for the past few days, on Fred Wilson‘s blog, there have been comment after comment about what to about, well comments. A good deal of this has to do with what to do with Newspapers in the Internet ecosystem, and their relationship to their readers, especially as their [...]
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A brief Break to talk more on Comments (before I talk about comments)

Image by bartodell.com via Flickr Just For giggles, I found this through AbovetheLaw, the Legal Tabloid.  Apparently, the Blawgosphere, as the legal eagles who blog call it, is also going through comment turmoil themselves. This essay on comment tolerance though, was worth a read just  to see what to do.  Sometimes, we all need a [...]
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Growing Pains and Disqus

Image by BenSpark via Flickr Disqus is definitely one of the most powerful commenting systems out there.  Beyond having fabulous customer service, it also is seeming to promote a really social commenting community on blogs, as seen from Fred Wilson‘s (currently) 183 comments here.  Whatever solution to solve the overwhelming feeling of seeing that many [...]
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Hearing the Voice from Cisco’s Chambers

Image by dfarber via Flickr In Saturday’s WSJ, Cisco Systems CEO John Chambers explains parts of the long term strategy to survive a downturn.  One thing that seems to be a theme of the new strategy, beyond the buzzword of the moment, Web 2.0, is their interest in video. It’s their big, open, yet dirty [...]
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Consensus-Based Funds, or in which an idea is sketched broadly out

In one of those comments where one never knows quite what the author originally thinks, I had written on Fred Wilson‘s blog, avc.com, Why aren’t there easier ways for average people to invest outside of pooling there money into institutions which then invest for them. Who says I have to like CalPers choices? (if I [...]
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If you Find this Post a Favor? Retweet?

So apparently I feel like I am the queen of Crashing things. I need a tough computer in which I can effeciently work and won’t yell at it.  I do a lot of yelling at computers, you see. I have no patience with them, except when I am doing what I need to do. I [...]
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Zemanta Part 2- It ain’t (exclusively) your fault- it’s emails.

Image by Tom Raftery via Flickr While others have already established that Zemanta is the essential blogging tool for adding yourself to the blog link cloud of awesomeness,  Zemanta for email is leaving me ehhhh and lost for the perfect use.
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Ring! Ring! Ring! Government-Phone!

In one of those odd sort of moves that I suspected for a while, Verizon is moving to cut its exclusive contract with cell phone makes (such as LG and RIM) to six months.
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