Let’s accept, for a moment, the ridiculous post-9/11 restrictions on airport egress that imply I’m about an equivalent risk to civil security as an airline passenger as I would be driving a truck with 80,000 pounds of hazardous cargo.
Once they’ve effectively imprisoned me within the system, can’t they at least offer a fenced-in pen for […]
Yearly Archives: 2008
Airyard
May 4, 2008 – 6:22 pm
Classname of the day
April 14, 2008 – 10:07 pm
GodKillsAKittenEveryTimeYouUseMe: recommended static field type for storing injector references (if you must) in Guice.
Message about media
April 6, 2008 – 8:07 am
My “no distinction between publisher and consumer” definition of social media seems to have caused a little to-do locally.
Scruffy
March 16, 2008 – 8:34 pm
Via Justin Kodama and Shailendra Rao’s work on “3D Portable Office” design, Understanding Office Ecologies
, I found David Kirsh’s The Context of Work. This paper is full of insightful models, but the simplest lessons are around the distinction between neat and scruffy office usage “personality types”.
I am undeniably a scruffy, preferring to keep information […]
Traffic as shallow leads
March 1, 2008 – 6:07 pm
A brief observation from the IAB performance marketing forum: the interactive advertising industry seems to consist of people from the direct marketing world, who think in terms of leads, and from media agencies, who think in terms of exposure and traffic.
The DM folks are all abuzz about the varying quality of leads, and there are […]
Planes rather than trains
February 4, 2008 – 7:52 am
I was supposed to drive shannon to Mardi Gras in NOLA this weekend. But work overload and weather and general stress fatigue prompted abandonment of that plan.
Still desiring an escape on Saturday morning, I snagged tickets on Amtrak to Kansas City for the afternoon, and a single night at the Westin. We parked […]
doubleplusparty
January 20, 2008 – 11:40 am
Yesterday, shannon & friends celebrated her birthday and all things 1984 at the loft with music and video from the eighties and glowing helium balloons.
People began arriving by 19:00, and many did not leave until 2:00. About 70 cups were left lying about and nearly half of the 200 white and purple balloons had […]
Adobe on the cluetrain
January 8, 2008 – 7:57 pm
A case study worth keeping around for client education:
Via an employee blogging officially but with a personal voice, Adobe has heard public concern, engaged in an open dialog about it, and directly addressed the issue.
Two Ton Boa
January 7, 2008 – 8:06 pm
8 years after the demise of my previous favorite band, I believe I’ve found their heir: Two Ton Boa opened for The Dresden Dolls, and I’m in love.
Discrete weather
January 3, 2008 – 10:35 pm
Yahoo forecasts a high temperature of 51° immediately followed by a low of 57°. At no time this weekend will it be 52°–56°.
