I can’t believe I’ve been “blogging” for over seven years. How the hell did that happen?
Actually, I think it was longer — if I remember correctly, my first blog was on some service whose name I simply cannot remember now, until I ran across Blogger in 2000. Then I switched to there, using […]

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I looked at my blog (this thing I’m writing in now) today and the thought that surfaced, unbidden, was “poor old blog.”
I felt bad because I haven’t been writing here like I used to, so sure I get the “poor” part — poor pitiful blog that isn’t getting my attention.
But where on earth […]

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I have it. I’ve been to several in the last 6 months, and I’m now burned out. For a few months anyway.
But UX Week was actually very good. Top-shelf in fact.
So, there it is, a glimmer on my blog that I am in fact still alive. I have lots of bloggy ideas, but […]

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I don’t know the exact release date, but I do know that it was right about ten years ago that I first heard OK Computer.
In May of ‘97, I had just finished my MFA in Creative Writing at UNC Greensboro. But I had no job prospects. I’d had a job lined up for me […]

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Wired has a great story explaining the profound implications of Google Maps and Google Earth, mainly due to the fact that these maps don’t have to come from only one point of view, but can capture the collective frame of reference from millions of users across the globe: Google Maps Is Changing the Way We […]

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It’s easy to overlook them. The Skinner-box button-pushers, watching the wheels roll and roll. Surrounded by a ‘paradise’ that still leaves them wanting — and thinking they’ll find it like this.
Vegas was a mixed bag. I guess I’d always seen so many glamorous photos and film shots, even the ones that tried to be […]

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Colleague Michael Magoolaghan passed along a link to the transcript of Tim Berners-Lee’s testimony before Congress.
Hearing on the “Digital Future of the United States: Part I — The Future of the World Wide Web”
It’s fascinating reading, and extremely quotable. But one part that really struck me is in the first paragraphs (emphasis added):
To […]

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This video is amazing. I’m not sure how to describe it. Cory Doctorow on BoingBoing said this about it:
“Web 2.0… the Machine is Us/ing Us,” is deeply moving and incredibly smart. The creator is Michael Wesch, an assistant Cultural Anthropology Prof at Kansas State U, and he has strung together a bunch of animations, […]

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For a year or so now, “innovation” has been bobbing around at the very top of the memepool. Everybody wants to bottle the stuff and mix it into their corporate water supplies.
I’ve been on the bandwagon too, I confess. It fascinates me — where do ideas come from and how do they end up […]

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Just one more Sunday with my daughter, dwindling now. Another week of work and daycamp, then a return drive to NC on Saturday, and our month together for 2006 will be over.
This time it went so fast. That’s a cliche, I know. But it did.
At the amusement park last week, kids lined up […]

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I’ve been working for a couple of months now on an article for the ASIS&T Bulletin (American Society for Information Science and Technology). It started out as an article version of my “Clues to the Future” presentation, but I soon realized that 1) I couldn’t really explain the same stuff very well in a […]

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As an adoptee who is also a fan of AM Homes, I was astonished I hadn’t seen this yet.
AM Homes: The Mistress’s Daughter
I follow up with a call. Her voice is low, nasal, gravelly, vaguely animal. I tell her who I am and she screams, “Oh, my God! This is the most wonderful day […]

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