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Made Scoble's most interesting list, yippee

Because it's the larger than life Robert Scoble, it figures his list of most interesting bloggers/twitters/friendfeed folks is way longer than most...

Knight News Challenge meet up schedule--October is the month

October is the big push to make sure everyone who is interested in applying for funding to the Knight News Challenge knows about it, knows how to a...

Getting ready for Arse talk: Notes

I've been writing the talk for Arse Electronika that I am going to give with Viviane on Friday. It's been fun to gather pictures, twitter quotes, a...

Quote of the Day

"I never played against my own intelligence to make men comfortable around me. I come on strong by being open, not teasing. I don't look for streng...

Geeks for Peaks, or Boulder Notes: Have funding, will recruit

Want to grow the intellectual capital and the revenue in a college town like Boulder, CO? Put some tech companies in, add TechStars and the 10+ com...

Knight News Challenge meetup--Sept 25th, Chicago

If you're debating applying for the Knight News Challenge this year, but haven't done anything yet AND you live in the Chicago area, you might want...

danah boyd going to MSFT Research New England: Do women hire women?

danah boyd's just announced that she's headed to the newly formed Microsoft Research Labs in Cambridge, Mass, not a bad place to think deep thought...

Dept of Susan: What the projects are

Here's where my attention is going these days, with different proportions of attention to each at different times:Co-founder, People's Software.&nb...

Quote of the Day, LOL

Given that Nick Douglas and Melissa Gira and others have just started promoting their sex social network, boffery, this quote from amber rhea seems...

Digital nomad, Berkeley division

So, I am 9/10ths unpacked at the Berkeley house. This is the third place I haved lived since May, if you count my old apartment, the Boulder sublet...

Crackberry addict, as in I am one of them

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The enduring lure of online news

Back in the day, I spent at least 8 years in the online news community--starting with co-founding New Jersey Online, moving on to Parade, heading t...

New post at BlogHer--and some favorites listed

I took the summer off from writing for BlogHer because doing Peoples Software was so intense. It's still intense, but I've resumed doing a weekly p...

Links for 2008-09-11 [del.icio.us]

Multiperspective Online Video News Site to Be Developed by Media Convergence Group, Inc. AOLers ride again in Missouri with online video news site...

Landing in Berkeley, at last

Last May, I packed up in Palo Alto and took off for Boulder, CO. It was a great summer, and then I drove back to California. For the past couple of...

Arse Electronika: Tech, Erotica, Blogging, the Future

Later this month is the second Arse Elektronika 2008 conference, tagged this year as "Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?" It's in San Francisco f...

Knight News Challenge meet up and info session Tuesday

So, there are two ways to learn about the Knight News Challenge and how to apply for funding for your project--Join the webinar happening at 11 am ...

The power of twitter, whuffie, and social media tools (aka an ask for a trip)

So tomorrow I fly to NYC, a place I have been far too little in the past 18 months. And I have some people to see, and a Knight News Challenge meet...

Links for 2008-09-07 [del.icio.us]

Tim Barsky "Tim Barsky is a traditional Ashkenazi storyteller and oral historian who has been getting increasing attention for his unique per...

Quote of the Day

"How can anyone know who or what to support, when language is used the way it has been used in this election, with Barack Obama tilting to the righ...

Want to win funding for a locally-focused project? Come to a Knight News Challenge meet up

The Knight News Challenge has re-opened for the third year, and is awarding $5M in funding for innovative ideas using digital experiments to transf...

Family, Social Media, Apple

I've always enjoyed looking at myself and my fairly typical family as barometers for social media and tech toys--or not, as the case usually is.&nb...

Links for 2008-09-01 [del.icio.us]

60% of IM users prefer MSN Messenger "What client do you use for instant messaging? According to a recent study by comScore Networks, there&#...

Links for 2008-08-31 [del.icio.us]

Coilhouse » Blog Archive » Genderfork: Exploring Androgyny, Bending Binary My friend Sarah's Genderfork blog received a great wri...

Quote of the Day

"Enthusiastic Republicans don't see the choice of Palin as affirmative action, despite her thin résumé and gaping absence of foreign policy knowled...

Proud of the peeps: Gustav disaster prep online

A few years ago, I sat in a meeting with Jeff Jarvis, Brian Oberkirch, Grace Davis, Andy Carvin and others and listened to everyone talk about how ...

Links for 2008-08-30 [del.icio.us]

User Submitted Images - JotSpot Wiki (usv) Inages of 1998-2000 web services in NYC including pathfrinder, totalny and other blasts from the past, ...

QOTD: Gail Collins on Sarah Palin

"t is conceivable that some people will think John McCain picked Sarah Palin to be his running mate because she is a woman. I know you find this sh...

Arse panel: Avoiding the Emily Gould Effect

Arse Elektronika 2008 -- "Do Androids Sleep with Electric Sheep?" -- will take place at CELLspace (San Francisco). September 25 thru 28, 2008. My f...

Obama, Slow Food Nation, progressive culture (rare political post)

Working this am, then heading to Slow Food Nation in SF for the afternoon. Everything is sold out, but we are going to go explore the markets and s...

Knight News Challenge 08: Sept. 9th Webinar on who should apply

Last year I was a reviewer for the Knight News Challenge; this year I am helping to manage and evangelize the program. As you hopefully know by now...

Social media tools: Community vs. Influence vs. Reputation

Some observations about social media..and my own shifting use of it, right now.Back in the day, say 2005, blogging was the main way to do the follo...

Links for 2008-08-25 [del.icio.us]

Practical Polyamory: Defintion of sex positive Anita Wagner: "he term sex-positive is often misinterpreted to mean promiscuous, but it's...

Lisa is cooking

So my Peoples Software co-founder Lisa Williams drove back from Boulder to Boston. It took 4 days and it was l--o-o-o-n-n -n-gggg. Lisa's home now,...

Knight News Challenge 08: Do you know about this program and the funding they offer?

The third year of the Knight News Challenge begins right now, did you know that?This is the third year that the Knight Foundation, based in Miami, ...

Links for 2008-08-23 [del.icio.us]

Google Provides Location to web and mobile apps - InsideRIA geolocation and google gears Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media: How Lon...

What I did on my summer vacation

Andrew Hyde got the TechStars teams to take a break right before Investor Day and spend one hour making a LipDub video. We did The Wombats song, Le...

Quote of the Day

"...And yes, I know, I'm a flash in the pan and I'm getting a big head and this will all be over tomorrow, but here's the thing: it's been going on...

Gnomedex: Conference as community

I'm at my friend's house in the North Bay, taking a deep breath after 12 weeks of TechStars and working flat out, so I didn't make it to Gnomedex t...

Quote of the Day

"America's back in the cold war and W.'s back on vacation. Talk about your fearful symmetry. After eight years, the president's gut remains gullibl...

Links for 2008-08-15 [del.icio.us]

Jon Miller and Ross Levinsohn's excellent adventure - Aug. 15, 2008 quotes from Fortune article: "Last December, Velocity took over managemen...

Quote of the Day"

Sites aimed primarily at women, from "mommy blogs" to makeup and fashion sites, grew 35 percent last year -- faster than every other category on t...

Links for 2008-08-13 [del.icio.us]

Y Combinator To Offer Standardized Funding Legal Docs Loving this!!!! arly stage venture firm Y Combinator, which has funded over 102 young startu...

Links for 2008-08-12 [del.icio.us]

Charles River Ventures - The CRV QuickStart Seed Funding Program "CRV has created an innovative program to eliminate these issues and help en...

Quote of the Day

"Just read in various places that people are getting messages from Twitter saying that there's a limit of 2000 followers per account.   Lots t...

Links for 2008-08-11 [del.icio.us]

GeoWeb presentation: The Power of Future Location for Social Networking on Vimeo peter beaty presentation tocheck out Knight News Challenge Garage...

My dog loves twitter

Winston loves toast, Colorado and twitter. If you don't believe me, here's the evidence.

Why I hate the new facebook (and am switching back)

Okay, it's been a couple of weeks and I don't like what Facebook did to my network. Getting close to the hating it part, in truth. What's wrong? Po...

Quote of the Day

"On Saturday, Mr. Stelter's wonderful article in The New York Times on how people were working around the blackout on the Olympic ceremony began as...

Links for 2008-08-10 [del.icio.us]

Bloggers Are Hard to Please and Hard to Pitch: Some Mistakes in Pitches from Startups | Profy | Internet news and commentary Svetlana: "I hav...

Noted

Elisa C: Which panels @SXSW to vote for (yeah, mine is there, but so are many other good ones--thanks, Elisa/LazyWeb)Svetlana/Profy: Her list of ti...

Quote of the Day

"The web is turning into one large gated community where, if you don't have the right credentials (cred), you'll always find yourself on the outsid...

Newspapers bridge the Gap with Yahoo! via Newspaper Consortium leader, Michael Silver

Picked up news from Scott Anderson's blog about Michael Silver being named lead to work with the Newspaper Consortium and Yahoo to "develop new opp...

Slow Food Nation: More Advice sought

So I just tuned into the website for the very ambitious and totally overwhelming Slow Food Nation coming to San Francisco August 29-Sept 1st.Wow.I ...

Susan's travels West : advice sought

So, I'll be heading back to California  from Boulder, CO later in August once TechStars is done.  I've got the dog, and I'm expecting to ...

Links for 2008-08-08 [del.icio.us]

Social Network Sites: Definition, History, and Scholarship Danah: "Social network sites (SNSs) are increasingly attracting the attention of a...

SXSW: Vote for the troublemakers

Allyson Kapin of Women Who Tech and Rad Campaign's pulled together a proposed SXSW panel that brings myself, Connie Reece, Lynne Johnson and Charle...

Quote of the Day

"But we are shifting, too, from a culture of scarcity to one of abundance. That is the essence of the Google worldview: managing abundance. So let'...

Links for 2008-08-07 [del.icio.us]

Rachel Kramer Bussel: How Many Partners Makes You Promiscuous?: More On The Never-Ending Debate Rachael writes" I believe that sexual decisio...

Noted

Russell Beattie: Why  open-source identi.ca can't scalerabble: leaving yahoo (great post with sharp observations, like: "Maybe at some point ...

The Knight News Challenge Garage is open--check it out

I've been working with the wonderful Knight News Challenge team--Kristen Taylor, Jose Zamora, Heidi Miller, Robertson Adams, Marc Fest and others (...

The Web Developer and His Wife: A Fable

Phillip Lenssen has outdone himself with this adorable little tale of the mom and pop shop whose golden goose is an SEO consultant. The opener..."T...

Sex & Culture round up day on SMB

Rachel Kramer Bussel has an excellent piece live in the Huffington Post about Carla Bruni, her reported number of sexual partners and whether count...

Quote of the Day

"...Don't get me wrong, the gender ratio is a hell of a lot better now than it was when I took my first tech-related job back in the early 90s, but...

Links for 2008-08-06 [del.icio.us]

Will The Semantic Web Have a Gender? - ReadWriteWeb Marshall K in fine form: "What is the semantic web? We define it as a paradigm that makes...

I am live on BitchBuzz..and yes, bitching, kinda (which is better than singing Kumbaya, right?)

BitchBuzz, Cate's super cool new web mag is live, filled with smart talk from edgy women. My contribution is a piece about feminism and Valley cult...

The Open Experiment: Locked posts removed.

I've just taken the privacy permissions off my friendfeed and twitter accounts.That means you no longer need to be approved by me to follow these s...

Links for 2008-07-24 [del.icio.us]

TwitterPacks wiki / Technology Women in Technology - 50 Powerful Females / BlogHer List of female Twitter users, extracted from these two related ...

Thursday Noted

Miss Aniela: Am I the only digital nomad on the planet who hasn't really focused on this amazing phtographer? Natalie Dybisz's  self-portraits...

Orli Yakuel: Celebrating women bloggers

I'm always leary of everyone's "Top" lists (tho of course I thrill to be included on them), but there's a joy, range and sassiness in Orli's latest...

Blog with me, baby-VC gives love to MeetUp, big time

Since we're in the deep middle of trying to get a product out the door, define our core purpose and value, and get the business partners, go to mar...

OMG, Chad is going to Etsy!!!!

So my friend Chad Dickerson is going off to Etsy as their CTO. This is amazing news, both because I am a total Etsy fan (enamored of both the busin...

Noted

News21: Jody Brannon, former MSN exec and wonderful teacher, named head of the ambitious and hope it goes far enough next century news program.Chri...

Quote of the Day

"Women who are speaking, who are consumers who talk, sort of like journalists, sort of like authors; we are conscious, individually and, more and m...

Links for 2008-08-05 [del.icio.us]

The Initiative on the Future of Journalism "This site is a product of Carnegie-Knight Initiative on the Future of Journalism Education, a pro...

Quote of the Day

"...But startups, like the rest of life, are a test of constant failures.  What is the thing that refreshes and renews you and gets you back t...

Links for 2008-08-04 [del.icio.us]

Essay on Transformation - Knight Foundation "This Progress Report is a symbol of Knight Foundation’s transformation into a 21st-century organ...

Links for 2008-07-23 [del.icio.us]

Google App Engine: A Glimpse of Things to Come Mashable: "The Google App Engine (GAE), which is still in preview release, offers a free hosti...

Links for 2008-07-22 [del.icio.us]

Dopp Juice » Blog Archive » BlogHer is Love Sara loved Blogher--and sez nice things about me and one of the panels I ran Composite: th...

Quote of the Day(okay, a longish post)

"TechCrunch and Techmeme get as much grumpiness tossed their direction as they do because they each own a valuable niche in the blogosphere, and ar...

Links for 2008-08-03 [del.icio.us]

Berkeley Parents Network dog walkers - Google Search berkeley area dog car resources East Bay Express | News | Sleeping Around Craigslist "We...

Links for 2008-07-18 [del.icio.us]

Inside Facebook » Developer of Suspended App Offers Advice on Facebook Platform Policy Developer of Suspended App Offers Advice on Facebook ...

Unlocked: Experiment update

So, about a week ago, I unlocked my twitter and friendfeed accounts; made the public; ie anyone chould choose to follow me.In the week, I've gone f...

Why I use Facebook and LinkedIn--and how I'd like to use email more efficiently

In the past few weeks, I've had talked with late 30s-40-something friends who express disdain and frustration with both Facebook and LinkedIn.These...

Quote of the Day

"This was a very difficult decision to make. We have never sold a newspaper, from my father's time to my time."--Donald Newhouse, president of Adva...

Let there be a new girls network

I'm enjoying both getting quoted by Sarah Lacy in  the Businessweek women in tech column she posted this week and reading the piece itself. Al...

(BlogHer) Quote of the Day

"Being a mom has forced me to become less self-centered and more aware of the small thing/big thing differences in life. Yes, I still have dreams t...

24 hours at BlogHer--Friday sessions on funding & entrepreneurs

BlogHer is big this year, and I heard lots of comments around the themes "There are so many new people," "Is it  more corporate?" (50 sponsors...

Links for 2008-07-30 [del.icio.us]

Google Acquires Omnisio To Spice Up YouTube "The service lets users annotate videos, mash various clips up, and synchronize Slideshare presen...

Noted

TechCrunch: The super-talented Tish Whitcraft will head customer service at MySpace. Tish was our senior customer care exec at Yahoo! Personals, an...

Scoble on traffic, passionate users and the rest of the great unwashed

Scoble's got a lovely post up about digerati, normals, and marketing. It's worth a complete read, but the summary would be that early adapters are ...

What I want from FriendFeed

So I really like FriendFeed. Enough to keep using it, multiple times a day. One of my favorite features is the commenting thread where readers can ...

Links for 2008-07-29 [del.icio.us]

About Us "here are close to 11 million women entrepreneurs in America. Women are launching businesses at twice the rate of men, and they are ...

Links for 2008-07-27 [del.icio.us]

The Most Powerful Female Bloggers on FriendFeed - Profy.Com am on this list. woot!

#ramday and the #hashtag par-tey on twitter

Did you know that #ramday means random about me day and that it's the tag (#hashtag) for personal bits of data that wouldn't usually come up in con...

RIP Randy Pausch

Just saw that Carnegie Mellon Professor Randy Pausch, who made an amazing series of videos about the meaning of life as he faced a terminal illness...

BlogHer: Coming Out Via Blog session is a don't miss

For the past few years at BlogHer, I was into the idea of trying to create a private space where identity bloggers who wanted to protect their iden...

Phishing by phone: 800 830 8574

Got a call on my phone from an 800 number saying that there had been possible fradulent activity on my card (they did not specify which one) and th...

Quote of the Day, and then some

"Listen up. I am a mother and I  have root. Stop stereotyping my kind as technologically ineffectual or I will RF-RM all your data."--Peoples ...

Links for 2008-07-13 [del.icio.us]

Pill-Popping Pets - Dogs, Cats, And Mood-Altering Drugs - NYTimes.com "Americans forked over $49 billion for pet products and services last year, ...

BlogHer 08-Friday July 18th--come join me and find out about ways to get your tech projects funded via grants and tech incubators

At the upcoming BlogHer conference at the The Westin to Francis Hotel there will be a bird of a feather session on Friday July 18th at 2:30 PM (til...

Quote of the Day

"A generation of guys who will settle for nothing less than a porn star meets a generation of women who expect their boyfriend to crawl through the...

Links for 2008-07-12 [del.icio.us]

switchAbit, bit.ly, twitabit central "The SwitchABit platform was developed because we noticed that an ever more complex flow of ideas and informa...

Quote of the Day

"Using Compete.com for 4 other significant technology Blog services we get some interesting numbers. TechCrunch should be valued at between $200 an...

Why I quit sugar (and how this fits with doing a start up)

So I have now been off sugar for almost two weeks. White sugar, brown sugar, maple syrup, honey, natural organic sugar--you name it--if it doesn't ...

Links for 2008-07-11 [del.icio.us]

Chirp: About--investors "Chirp is backed by leading Silicon Valley investors including Greylock Partners, Jeff Clavier's SoftTech VC, and angel in...

Steve Hodson--and yeah, thats's Hodson, is a pleasure to talk to (at least via our blogs)

Steve, I hope  get to buy you a drink and hang out sometime when we are in the same town and time zone. Your post yesterday was just so right ...

Quoted and Noted

"It's easier for a female to start her own company than to move through the ranks of a big corporation. You don't have to ask anyone's permission ...

Guardian Media: Assembling the pieces (and congrats)

I'm delighted for my old friends Rafat Ali and Staci Kramer and the sale of Content Next to the Guardian Media Group for a reported $30million plus...

Links for 2008-07-10 [del.icio.us]

NxE’s Fifty Most Influential ‘Female’ Bloggers at Weekly Articles About Blogging - NxE yet another list: As it is often the case...

Quote of the Moment (and the Day)

"I find the colloquialism "You must join the conversation" a tired phrase legacy of 2006. It's overused, oversold, thrown around and just not accur...

All hail the BlogHer tweetpack--add your name to the list

Many of the  BlogHer contributing editors have gotten onto twitter to be more connected during BlogHer's sold out big conference next week. Th...

Steve, what is a professional blogger? And who the heck are you?

I seem destined to have back and forth discussions with Steve Hodson, who picked up something I wrote yesterday about becoming more engaged with tw...

Links for 2008-07-09 [del.icio.us]

MediaLets Launches iPhone Ad Platform: Think DoubleClick for iPhone Apps - ReadWriteWeb doubleclick for the iphone? hmmn... Start - A Conference f...

Attention drift: Observations on behavior, and virtual communities

For the past four years, my pattern has been to get up early, have breakfast, check email, read, blog, and walk the dog, not always in that order. ...

Links for 2008-07-08 [del.icio.us]

susanmernit's bookmarks on del.icio.us "Welcome to the developer documentation for protocol buffers – a language-neutral, platform-neutral, extens...

Quote of the Day

"Catering to the need for intellectual stimulation is a little nebulous, but obvious at the same time. Designing the APIs in a particularly elegant...

Links for 2008-07-07 [del.icio.us]

User 21 "Out of this total of 57560 users, here are the top 20 “heaviest” (most subscribed to) FF users: User Subscribers " User 21 » ...

I'm in the top 250 on FriendFeed; guess the user base is really small

User 21 has a nifty post with an analysis of the top 250 most followed people on FriendFeed, ans according to the chart, I'm number 34, which makes...

Noted

Russell Beattie: Why  open-source identi.ca can't scalerabble: leaving yahoo (great post with sharp observations, like: "Maybe at some point ...

Fred Wilson is right

Fred sez: "Social media is no different from all media. The number of people who at one point were interested in your content or service is not tha...

Links for 2008-07-06 [del.icio.us]

The Medium - File-Sharing Fetish - Video Sharing Sans Pornography - NYTimes.com "YouTube’s redefinition of broadcast success from having giant aud...

Quote of the Day

"If at any point in time you utter the words "Just Don't Get It" or "Just Doesn't Get It" in any conversation with me, I will not do business with ...

Links for 2008-07-05 [del.icio.us]

Why I Read Business Blogs, Starting a Business Article - Inc. Article "Next I checked in on the adventures of Tim Wolters, who's blogging the enti...

Links for 2008-07-04 [del.icio.us]

Announcing Tech.NewsJunk.Com (Scripting News) Dave sez: created the site because I wasn't getting enough news about products. It's that simple. I'...

Quote of Day

"So now we have a company with a woman CEO and a woman CTO and a woman COO. And the work we do? The work we do together? It's only incidental that ...

Links for 2008-07-03 [del.icio.us]

How To Build A Web App in Four Days For $10,000 (Say Hello To Matt) great stuff--Tips on working wisely Here are a few tips that you should keep ...

Quote of Day

"Bad management is cancer. Bad managers tend to promote other bad managers for similar skills: brown-nosing and covering their asses. The best, mos...

Links for 2008-07-02 [del.icio.us]

Bay Area Girl Geek Dinners » Bay Area Girl Geek Dinner #2 Finds Partner in Facebook Developer Garage "But the night’s most deeply touching c...

Congrats to Christine Herron

Reading this this am just made me get that big smile--Christine is so smart, and so shrewed--and First Round is a great team--this is wonderful new...

Links for 2008-06-29 [del.icio.us]

When Is Good: The Bare-Bones Meeting Scheduler "Need to schedule a meeting or phone call, but can’t agree on a time that is good for everyone? Try...

Another year of change ahead, wow--and whether to join the RC Club

So I am at the United RedCarpet Club in Chicago, waiting for a flight to Denver after lots of delays from TVC.. Got smart and used miles for a dayp...

Quoted, not noted

From around the twittersphere, blogosphere, etc  this weekend:Loren Feldman: "People like the puppet more than you because he is more real tha...

Links for 2008-06-28 [del.icio.us]

No win choices: perverts vs. sluts - Figleaf's Real Adult Sex Here goes: for better or worse, men have to worry more than women do about being cal...

Heading back to Boulder, reflections on past 2 weeks

So, this is the last night in Michigan, heading back to Boulder tomorrow.  It's been a interesting two  weeks--I spent more than hald of ...

Links for 2008-06-26 [del.icio.us]

Xobni Gets Even Better With LinkedIn Data For Your Contacts "Xobni, the email startup that we’ve described as “The Superplugin for Outlook”, has p...

Dumped my blackberry in the river, phone doesn't work

My Blackberry is currently non-operative; I managed to dump it in the Crystal River and am now waiting to see if it works any better (like, at all)...

New post over at Peoples Software

Thirty days into the new company and TechStars.Details here.

Vacation/work/vacation/work/vacation

So I haven't posted here for 2 days. I want to say it's because I've been on vacation, but the realtty is that I haven't posted because I've been s...

Help promote the 2008-09 Knight News Challenge this summer/fall

Are you someone passionate about social media--and an online marketing and/or relationship management person?  The Knight Foundation is lookin...

Make mine multi tasking

On "vacation", working remotely, preparing for BlogHer and supporting Knight News Challenge.Great and terrible.(On the other hand, it is not 102 de...

Melissa gets Quote of the Day--and then some

"When I enter a room of suits (like the conference last week, which was called Supernova and was concerned with the business of the internet and wh...

Another data point that shows how much local--and community--matter

Jeremy Zawodny's going to work at Craigslist!!!!!Not LinkedIn,  not Facebook, not a little start-up, but the little local engine that could&nb...

Yahoo: The circle game

So with the departure of Caterina and Stewart from Yahoo, I don't think much of anyone from the gang of pirates, as Caterina dubbed the ADD team ba...

Links for 2008-06-17 [del.icio.us]

%w(Akita On Rails) * 2.0 / Chatting with Blaine Cook (Twitter) good interview withblaine cook

Quote of Day

"We found that 63% of women in science, engineering and technology have experienced sexual harassment. That's a really high figure. They talk abou...

Yahoo: Who could replace Jerry Yang?

Kara Swisher's got a good piece on possible Yahoo! CEO replacements, with usual suspects Sue Deck, Meg Whitman, Dan Rosensweig trotted out. She als...

Links for 2008-06-16 [del.icio.us]

Open mind, insert thought: Soul Patch "Sooner or Later" Album Release Party Now, Scott is cool-- "June seems like a pretty quiet month for me. Se...

Omiru named one of the 50 best web sites of 2008

Who says small can't be beautiful?  And powerful, for that matter?   My friend Trish's lovechild, fashion site Omiru, was just named...

Quote of the Day

"June seems like a pretty quiet month for me.  Selling my house, renting a place up in the city, moving up to the city, quitting Yahoo!, secur...

Okay, I'm back--and why mobile devices rule the earth

So I spent three days on the road to Northern Michigan, in a house with no wireless, reuniting with the BF and friends and..hiking...and sleeping. ...

Links for 2008-06-12 [del.icio.us]

The Top 10 Viral Marketing Campaigns Of All Time check it out FriendFeed and the Web Itself as a Blogging Platform I'm Done With Private Beta Is b...

A rare moment away from the computer

Andrew Hyde snuck up and took this at some odd hour when we'd both been work for, uh, days.

The moment when Loopt stopped working for me

So when I saw that Loopt was going to be on all the new iPhones, I ran to try it. I love mobile apps, especially web to mobile apps. So, I installe...

Noted (and transitions)

Jeremy Zawodny leaving Yahoo: Just saw that my friend Jeremy Z is leaving Yahoo for a compelling opportunity with another company; I am excited for...

Rejected from Facebook ads

A friend of mine tried to place an ad to promote a FB app, and got the following rejection notice: *  The text of this ad contains excessive o...

Links for 2008-06-11 [del.icio.us]

Times Hires New Chief of the About Group - NYTimes.com This is a PERFECT ffit; hope she goes on to run all the digital properties at the Gray Lady...

Exit velocity: Rumors, Weiner, Yahoo & AOL

Just saw Mike Arrington's TechCrunch post that Jeff Weiner's departure from Yahoo is a done deal and it accelerated a question I have been asking m...

Weds Food Porn: Chocolate cupcakes

(Via The Brooklyn Kitchen Blog)

How TechStars and Tech meetups remind me of MFA programs and sewing circles

So we're heading to week three at TechStars, and while the problems we want to solve have changed, the products wer're building have shifted 180 de...

Links for 2008-06-10 [del.icio.us]

susanmernit's bookmarks on del.icio.us "loopt is a revolutionary “social mapping" service that aims to change the way people use mobile phones to ...

Found on Summize, #1

" My mother is talking to me on facebook about my roomba! Crazy! Who taught her to use the internet?"--Tweetster Christina Norma...

Summize: RSS'ing the twitterverse

I just spent some time playing with Summize, the twitter  stream search app, and used it to add some feeds to my newsreader (which I try to ke...

Quote of Day

""Heterosexual married women live with a lot of anger about having to do the tasks not only in the house but in the relationship. That's very diffe...

Links for 2008-06-09 [del.icio.us]

susanmernit's bookmarks on del.icio.us "using the location-aware technology built into the handset, Citysense eventually begins to "learn" where y...

We Haz Prototypes

This weekend was all about product ideas, user values, specs, user flow, logic and building prototypes. That means we were able to walk into the of...

Links for 2008-06-08 [del.icio.us]

Modern Love - Why Spoil Great Sex by Dating? - NYTimes.com "We’ve grown up in an age of rampant divorce and the accompanying tumult. The idea that...

Quote of the Day

"...all startups have a natural life. Some live forever and some are killed in their cribs."--Boulder technocrat around town and VP of Biz Dev at L...

Links for 2008-06-07 [del.icio.us]

Rogue Columnist: Newspaper suicide watch: the folly of "local-local" Excellent post on Loudon Countty web site from WashPo and its falure; interes...

Quote of the Day

"What provokes such fury, over Carrie Bradshaw, and -- for a flash -- over Gould (barring a book deal and TV show that will turn her meanderings in...

Following on FriendFeed: Hit 1,000, best way to read me from multiple sources

So last week, I said I hoped people would subscribe to my friendfeed as a good way to see my stream in multiple sources:this blogthe new blog for o...

Maceo Parker rules the roost

Saw Maceo Parker last night at the Boulder Theatre. What a great show! And that venue's a great place to dance around as you listen. Here's some Ma...

Gluten Free Boulder, aka Two weeks in another town

So it's been two weeks in Boulder @techstars, and working with my co-founder Lisa Wiliams on Peoples Software. Twp weeks ago Friday, A & I were...

Links for 2008-06-06 [del.icio.us]

the carolynn blog » Blog Archive » 130 Funding Links: Angel/Venture Capital via dave cohen, 130 Funding Links: Angel/Venture Capital

Links for 2008-06-05 [del.icio.us]

David Van Seters search results link Fascinated by SPUD, a 10 year old, Vancouver based cmpany that delivers organic food and local product in sel...

Quote of Day

"Ideally, you want to look the person who is growing the food in the eye, and then you really know where the food came from and how did the chicken...

Links for 2008-06-04 [del.icio.us]

Don Dodge on The Next Big Thing: The Web 2.0 Bubble Debate trend notes from don doge..note freermium notes Creators, Synthesizers, and Consumers :...

Quote of the Day

"....you define yourself by who you follow. If you only follow your family, that defines you. If you follow a crowd, like I do, that defines you to...

It's Obama!

Obama's got the nomination.

Disturbing, but lovely, in a way, and sad

Anyone from Ryan Fedyk (Via Nick Douglas)

Killing moths isn't just a metaphor

So, let's see. Woke up at 4:45 today, birds singing, dog snoring, temptation to head out into the cool Boulder dawn on  the walk path. Then I ...

Links for 2008-06-03 [del.icio.us]

Green Wiki wiki as green community, worth a look for the drupalesque layout Pool Party - Cloud EC2 Computing Made Easy "Pool Party is an open sour...

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LaunchBox Digital | Blog "Pay attention to the important metrics. Daily active users, a common form of measurement, can sometimes be less reliable...

Quote of the Day, 2

"Parties here are much like living in your RSS reader...a buzzword-laden hubbub; a wall of noise that demands an adequate filter. That real-world f...

Quote of the Day (What is hyper-local?)

"Here's my own definition: It's the things we wonder about as we walk (or drive) the streets of our community.  Today, for instance,...

Quote of the Day, 3

"If I've learned anything from Spread Firefox, BarCamp, coworking and the like, it's that propaganda needs to be free to be effective. In other wor...

Friend Feed follows: Still reaching for 1,000

Thanks to everyone who added me on friendfeed. As of this minute, I have 962 followers, would love to hit a thousand, drawing from readers of this ...

Links for 2008-06-01 [del.icio.us]

Your Money - Negotiating for a House? Start With ‘Dear Seller’ - NYTimes.com how to lowball a house offer Event Scheduling: Presdo Sim...

Sifry stuff: Offbeat Guides hits private beta

So Dave Sifry announced the private beta of his new personalized and printed travel guide service, offbeat guides, last night. Back when I was stil...

Quote of the Day: Start-up Advice Department

"Don't break your news on your own blog! Like press releases crossing the wire, breaking news on your blog makes the news less valuable if others h...

Links for 2008-05-31 [del.icio.us]

Japan's 'geisha guys' the latest accessory - CNN.com If women in business in Japan are truly making enough money to employ male "geisha", far out-...

Quote of Day

"What we want to do in the venture capital business is take a lot of risk (which should be rewarded with a low entry valuation) and then actively m...

Friendfeed:Can you help me get to a thousand?

I have 932 people following me on friendfeed as of today. I love this service because it so easily included my annotated delicious comments, which ...

Links for 2008-05-30 [del.icio.us]

Causes Reports On Its First Year - $2.5 Million For 20,000 Charities And NonProfits « Previous post Next post » May 28, 2008 Causes Reports On Its...

Quote of Day

"will be headed to Boulder Colorado this summer save 2 weeks when I'll be back in NC for the beach and my wedding... I'm thinking this will be a pr...

Pork & Beans is one juicy mess

Did I mention how much I enjoy Weezers Pork and Beans video?  The meta-approach of making a video that includes bits of popular vids from YouT...

So, what's the gig?

I've spent part of the morning--and will spend some more time--updating my lifestream data to reflect what I'm up to right now. So Louis Gray asked...

Links for 2008-05-29 [del.icio.us]

Deborah Howell - An Op-Ed Need for Diverse Voices - washingtonpost.com Rock on Deb Howell!! "The op-ed page can't open up space for other voices ...

Quote of Day

"But if we dare be more than pretty eyeballs driving the market, we must challenge the deep misogyny pulsing at the heart of the hypertext transfer...

Start-Up Stories: It's the journey back

I've been at TechStars for about 36 hours; the program started Tuesday night and it's Thursday morning now. My hopes when I accepted the spot we we...

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Megan McArdle (May 28, 2008) - Portrait of a failing media company "Instead the site is a hilarious parody of what clueless middle-aged media comp...

(Long) Quote of the Day

"When a site designs an API, what they usually do is take their internal data model and expose every nook and cranny in it in great detail. Obvious...

Knight Foundation grants for Drupal development are now open

The nicely forward thinking Knight Foundation has teamed up with the Drupal community to create a rolling series of funding opportunities. Grant fo...

New column up at BlogHer.com on Emily Gould's NYTimes Magazine essay

Take a look at my new essay, The End of Innocence and Making It Big: The NYTimes spins yet another lost girl tale of innocence, regret and discreet...

Startup! In Boulder for 3 months, at TechStars

So, it's Boulder.The start up that my partner and I are working on got accepted as a TechStars 08 incubator company, so we're here for the summer, ...

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Affinity Labs Affinity Labs builds online communities to improve the lives, careers and education of our members. Affinity Labs is based in San Fr...

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Q&A with Sebastian Horsley, dandy posterboy. By Alexandra Godfrey - Nerve.com Screening Room "My role as a poser is a pose, it's a way of deep...

Paul Graham Start Up Tips

For many people, Paul Graham is an essential touch point in building a new company. His perspectives have the ring of experience--and a lot of wisd...

Almost back to the regularly scheduled programming

So, the road trip is over.  The adventure is just beginning, but I'm in the place I am subletting for the next few months. Dog seems calm, eve...

Links for 2008-05-25 [del.icio.us]

Technology entrepreneurs head for 'startup camp' This is the MOST clueless reporting about baercamps etc I have read in a while. Ugh. FriendFeed C...

Links for 2008-05-24 [del.icio.us]

Brad Feld linking to a good potst n why start ups fail. Given all the consumer web stuff that got funded between 2004 and 2006, we are heading for...

Pushing on down the road

At Motel6 in Auburn, CA (good, free wireless). Food, then back in the car and 9 hours of the big highway, with breaks, of course. Getting a kick ou...

Why Start-ups Fail: Dave Feinleib

Brad Feld pointed to a super astute and articulate post from VC Dave Feinleib on why startups go bloey. Cheat sheet summary is (and the whole thing...

Links for 2008-05-23 [del.icio.us]

Ed Levine's Serious Diet, Week 19: Pies Are My Weakness | Serious Eats : Required Eating amusing piece on iet and vacation. "The problem is that M...

David Brook's nerd/geek essay rawks my world

NYTimes columnist David Brooks keeps writing the coolest stuff. Here's some snippets from the latest, on the ascendency of geek culture:"The jock c...

Quote of Day

"The Tech Industry is what happens when really smart people get paid to have so much fun that they lose touch with reality."-- Sarah Dopp, blogger,...

Links for 2008-05-20 [del.icio.us]

how do do ruby..fast notes on ruby BuzzMachine » Blog Archive » Blogs then and now Jeff: Three years from now, I predict that Business...

Start-up Quote of the Day

"The problem we would soon find out was that having hundreds of active users in Chicago didn't mean that you would have even two active users in Mi...

Congrats! Techmeme gets search box at last!

" Hours after Techmeme launched in 2005, search uberblogger Danny Sullivan remarked "there's no keyword search facility that I can see. I want that...

Quote of the Day

"Procrastinating was a way of giving myself permission to do a less than perfect job on a task that didn't require a perfect job. As long as the de...

Links for 2008-05-19 [del.icio.us]

Why WetPaint & Other UGC Sites Get Big Money - GigaOM Great value piece on social software tools~! "ndeed, the services of startups like Wetpa...

Gender Gap: Is it a chicken, or is it an egg?

Authoritative newspaper article in the Boston Globe that says "...two new studies by economists and social scientists have reached a perhaps startl...

Elephant fight: The New Collaboration versus the old Compete and Kill'em

Woke up this morning and read Duncan Riley's right on the money post Blogging 2.0: It's All About the User, and Louis Gray's related and more perso...

The new flitterati, or why I am embarassed by my own ADD

I remember, even a year ago, I felt that I had it sweet with information management. My bloglines reader was full and well-organized, I had techmem...

Links for 2008-05-18 [del.icio.us]

Why Data Portability is Important For Web Personalization "Fifteen or so years into the evolution of the web, we already have many of the key idea...

Congrats to Blogher and Queen of Spain for Obama interview

Queen of Spain, aka Erin Vest, interviewed Barak Obama this weekend, and did an amazing job. Erin's interview addressed policy questions developed ...

(Silly Sunday) Quote of the Day

"Park Slope is a perfect storm of stereotypes that provoke derision. Since Park Slope is the neighborhood most explicitly associated with urban par...

Links for 2008-05-17 [del.icio.us]

About « Feminist Chemists "Our site is a central repository of information that will educate and inspire and likely infuriate. We are asto...

Quote of the Day

"I can't think of a company that I am more impressed with than Google, but they are coming to grips with the fact that "startup energy" can't be fa...

Quote of the Day

"I can't think of a company that I am more impressed with than Google, but they are coming to grips with the fact that "startup energy" can't be fa...

Vidoop: How do you identify?

Here's Alex Polvi's  sweet one from the Vidooop identity contest--(and maybe a reason to take a break from life in the Valley, see if you can ...

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Schneier on Security: Crossing Borders with Laptops and PDAs keep customs agents AWARE FROM YOUR DATA (AND PORN). "Set a portion of your hard driv...

A day of no concentration

Today and tomorrow are the days to finish my errands and pack up my apartment before the movers come and put me in storage. Deconstructing three ye...

Links for 2008-05-15 [del.icio.us]

Sometrics TechCrunch says "Sometrics provides metrics (think Google Analytics) to social network application developers. Built a Facebook applicat...

Quote of the Day

"It is clear to me that the board of directors of Yahoo has acted irrationally and lost the faith of shareholders and Microsoft. It is quite obviou...

Noted (AM bookmarks)

The Neural Buddhists - New York Times: David Brooks is a genius; great piece on science and sprituality. BREAKING: CBS Acquiring CNET For $1.8 B...

Links for 2008-05-14 [del.icio.us]

PJNet - Blog - Will Community Foundations Fund Local Journalism? Witt: "only 25 percent of community foundations fund journalism, but then tells w...

Start-up stories: Would you join your own company?

 So you want to join a start up from BINC Research totally caught my attention--the checklist of what a programmer should consider before jump...

2008 Knight News Challenge winners announced; aka Why I came to Vegas

The Knight Foundation just announced the 16 winners of the 2008 News Challenge, which give out $5.5 million dollars to fund a set of projects that ...

Quote of the Day

" I feel like Match.com is a zoo where you're walking around looking in cages and saying, "That is an interesting animal there." Like I said, we tr...

Links for 2008-05-13 [del.icio.us]

Nascent: Where are we, where are we now? excellent talk on the uses and value of location based services and "location brokers." Out.com Features ...

Heading to Editor and Publisher conference today, with Knight Foundation

I'll be at the Editor & Publisher conference in Las Vegas for the next couple of days, in support of the Knight Foundation announcement of the ...

Links for 2008-05-12 [del.icio.us]

Created by Camtasia Studio 4 OLPC social networking features preso The Chinese earthquake and Twitter - crowdsourcing without managers « Onl...

This is my brain on start-ups

In two weeks, I move out of the Silicon Valley area for a brief stint and head for the next great adventure. The work it's taken to get to this mom...

Quote of the Day

"As to the rest of the wannabees, it really is true that if you haven't done it, that is: been intimately involved growing a social web app from pr...

Links for 2008-05-11 [del.icio.us]

Why Filtering is the Next Step for Social Media - ReadWriteWeb aggregation and importation discussion from corvida

Links for 2008-05-09 [del.icio.us]

Pet Friendly Hotel Chains dog friendy hotel chains FB post about FB connect and identity portability Dave Morin: "Facebook users represent themsel...

SEO Rapper sure knows the jargon

Chuck , the SEO Rapper, Prophetic Prophet sez: "My 9 to 5 is in Search Engine Optimization, Search Engine Marketing and Social Media Consulting at ...

Facebook flash mob turns trash mob in Leeds waterfight

According to the Daily Mail, a Facebook flashmob stunt went awry when hundreds of very pleased with themselves people had a tremendous entertaining...

Start-ups: Telling the right story

So we're creating this start up, see. And my co-founder and I live in different places. And while we're be together for a chunk of time very soon, ...

Moderating panel at BlogHer: Come join us

I'm moderating a panel at BlogHer. in July on Who We Are: "Coming Out" via Blog Here's the descriptor:"No, this doesn't only apply to the most com...

Quote of the Day (at least the morning)

"How do you know if you're in over your head in a healthy way as compared to an unhealthy one?  One entrepreneur gave me a good rule of thumb ...

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Inside Facebook » Breaking: Facebook Profile Redesign - Detailed Specs & First Impressions Jstun sez:The new publisher flow (a significa...

Come on over to friendfeed

Morning, folks. As of right now, I have over 500 readers on friendfeed, many more here on this blog.If you're interested in my ideas, I highly reco...

Links for 2008-05-07 [del.icio.us]

Chris Glass, The Last 10 Days Loving how the words and eloquent pictures in this blog align. false precision: Angel Financing note from lijjit on ...

Quote of the Day

"Free is the next disruption.  Like all platform shifts, it begins as a small but structural change in the economics of adoption. It ends with...

Managing the mania for completion, aka, always so much to learn

So, now that I am starting a company(more specifics on that later, and with a great partner), I've got an amazing number of things to balance. Ther...

Links for 2008-05-06 [del.icio.us]

A List Apart: Articles: Community: From Little Things, Big Things Grow brilliant ideas on UX and design. Snippet: "The idea that every Flickr visi...

Location aware Services: Now this is something to truly think about

If you're interested in local, community, identity, of course you are thinking about location-based services. Chris Messina's post on location and ...

Quote of the Day

"We consciously chose to make the site design appear plain and simple, despite its deep complexity. A white background, blue links, sans-serif font...

Links for 2008-05-05 [del.icio.us]

About Us | Vegan Bits "a vegan diet has been credited with lowering the risks of all kinds of diseases including: colon cancer, heart attack, high...

What is wrong with this picture?

This is a picture of the most recent ycombinator Start Up School at Stanford. Take a good look. Seems like it was a great program.  Anyone abl...

YAM: The big disconnect

So what is Yahoo! going to do after Microsoft (YAM)? I mean, besides endure fidicuary lawsuits and soldier on as before.Well, Read Write Web says t...

Twitter and Open API, good post

I'm still waking up, but this is a great post by one Hank Williams, whydoeseveryhingsuck?:"It is entirely possible that before Twitter makes its fi...

Quotes of the Day

"The excellent thing, and good news, for publishers is that there is life after print -- in fact, a better life after print."-- Pat McGovern, found...

What was Yahoo thinking?

Jerry Yang posted on the Yahoo! blog today: "Those people underestimated the determination of Yahoo!'s incredible people, spirit and culture. Our f...

Words to live by?

" Smart people will find big markets."--Developer, VC legend and YCombinator co-founder Paul Graham, discussing what makes a start up successful (...

Weekend Quote of the Day

"I know you don't believe me, just like you don't believe Mom when she tells you that you are beautiful. But I'll say it anyway: One day you will l...