desultory (marked by lack of definite plan or regularity or purpose; jumping from one thing to another) “desultory thoughts”; “the desultory conversation characteristic of cocktail parties”
I learned the word “desultory” when my younger sister showed me a mix tape she made for her then-boyfriend. It was called “desultory tunes.” Before that, I thought desultory meant […]
Twitter is so dumb, isn’t it? You publicly say these most inane things and then other people say inane things and it’s all inanity, here, there and everywhere.
Kind of reminds me of my addiction:
it’s not just that when I’m with others, I - ugh! - participate in destructive social rituals like caring what people are […]
When I proposed podcast jam six weeks ago, I didn’t really know what I was getting myself into. This project has overrun my life and my hard drive. I have podcasts everywhere.
Next week I’ll write up lessons learned after I dig myself out from under all the work that’s landed on my desk since the […]
So the jam launched today with an awesome podcast by Richard MacManus. I was too excited about my interview with Rosemary Stasek to hold it back for later in the week. Eric Severson’s discussion of the rules of Office 2.0 in the context of content management and XML single-sourcing provided a solid introduction to the […]
Adam Green questions the prevailing wisdom that a reading list should include less than ten blogs. I can see uses for both, but I’m far more excited about big reading lists right now.
Small reading lists match the current news reading paradigm, exemplified by the three-panel browsers and river-of-news displays. But big lists, lists with 100 […]
After publishing my rejection of the personalized meme tracking approach, I thought that the following question might come up: if you want a momblog meme tracker or any other type of vertical, domain-specific meme tracker, why don’t you build it yourself? I’ve thought about building it myself and have put together some of the […]
Richard MacManus of Read/Write Web reports that two people who ought to know (Gabe Rivera and Nic Cubrilovic) think that “personal meme trackers” aren’t possible with current technology.
To me, it’s irrelevant whether they’re technologically feasible or not. Call me nutty, but I don’t want a page of news personalized only for me. I can just […]
Mary Hodder’s new online video aggregation service Dabble is launching its balpha (that’s not quite beta but beyond alpha) next week. Om Malik, senior writer at Business 2.0 magazine, reviewed the service this morning. I’m most interested in the service’s video playlists capability, where users will be able to package different videos together in something […]
Simmering on the mental burner…
Alone, together. I miss reading a good newspaper right when I wake up. The Maui News takes me all of five minutes to read, hardly enough time to finish a Pop-Tart, especially if it’s brown sugar cinnamon. So I’m happy when smart people like Virginia Postrel find and summarize interesting articles […]
Why do we have to divide everything up by gender? His and hers, boy and girl, female and unfemale. It gets tiresome. There are so many personal qualities more important than gender in determining how you act and what you might accomplish. Like, are you an extrovert or an introvert? Are you good with words, […]
