April 2008
12 posts
Apr 29th
Apr 29th
I didn’t want to study, so I packed for a while. Then I didn’t want to pack anymore, so I checked my email and twittered a bit. I got an email I didn’t want to respond to, so I started to study. Life’s cycles are everywhere, and so are cause-and-effect relationships. Look for them; they can be entertaining, enlightening, fascinating, or just irrational.
Apr 29th
Tuesday, April 29, 2008 11:40 AM →
Clicking on the link above will take you to an .mp3 file of a recording I made earlier in the day from my phone using BlogTalkRadio’s Cinch. It’s about a radio show I was listening to earlier today concerning global climate change. It’s about 1.5 minutes long.
Apr 29th
Apr 29th
“What I was told, in a nutshell, is that the café staff has encountered a stream...”
– The quote, from Screenwerk, is about a cafe in California that put up a “NO YELPERS” sign in response to some allegedly unfair reviews on the popular site Yelp. Just recently, Yelp gave storeowners the ability to message Yelp reviewers, respond to questions and comments, and correct...
Apr 29th
(I'm) Content
I find that I’m happier when I am producing content — like a blog post, a term paper, photographs, video, or a speech.
Apr 29th
Apr 29th
Media I Like
Like my friend Kevin Donovan did about half a year ago, I now have compiled a list of Media I Really Like. The Daily Show WIRED Magazine The (Duke University) Chronicle The Onion The New York Times mental_floss Magazine Saturday Night Live kottke.org Pandora The Wire I’ll add more as I think of them, but those are the websites and print publications I use most frequently. In...
Apr 29th
ListenIf there was one thing that could convince me to...
Apr 29th
17 days and counting...
No, I’m not talking about how long it has taken Amazon to ship me my textbook. I’m talking about this blog’s one-year anniversary. The first post, a link to a Chicago Tribune article about newspapers’ “most-emailed” lists, appeared on April 19, 2007. Since then, I have changed the design of the blog twice — first to “Sunday Edition” and then...
Apr 2nd
Apr 2nd
The New York Times's list of prominent blogs in... →
This is a page that is supposed to explain to the blog-ignorant what a blog is. This must be really old, though. TechCrunch isn’t listed under the Tech section, the link to Jason Calacanis’s blog still points to Weblogs, and PaidContent is a “recent addition.” Send an email to Rich Meislin (navigator@nytimes.com) to suggest some updates or changes. For shame! The NYT...
Apr 1st