Christmas is almost upon us. What it mainly means to me is that I get to see my daughter for about 10 days and be her dad. I get to see my parents and be their kid. Everything else feels pretty extraneous right now.
It’s amazing how hard humanity works to create so many […]

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I’m late in acknowledging this, but October is “Lupus Awareness Month.”
People I care very much about struggle with this disease, an auto-immune disorder that is very complex and often debilitating.
There are so many causes out there, and so many needs. But chances are, someone you know is challenged with this disease. I […]

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This has been quoted all over the place, but I just ran across it. It makes me nostalgic for intellectual, secular conservatism. It’s a perspective from a wholly other “George W” …
George Will in Newsweek, May 2005:
The Oddness of Everything - Newsweek Columnists - MSNBC.com
the greatest threat to civility—and ultimately to civilization—is an excess of […]

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When I write about the ‘net, I keep fearing I’m being too repetitive about how astoundingly different the fabric of human meaning is becoming due to this technology (and actually not the technology but its use).
Then I run across others saying similar stuff and I don’t feel so bad, such as David Weinberger on […]

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In my ever-expanding obsession with coining terms*, I’ve come up with another one: Ustiquity.
It’s the property of being both “ubiquitous” and “sticky” that describes information on the Internet and the increasingly available manner in which we access that information.
See, we’re all creating information, having conversations, making thoughts explicit with language. We’ve always done […]

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Quick disclaimer: I realize there is still a lot of rescuing, grieving, and hard work to do in the Gulf coast. I respect the city of New Orleans, and its people. This post is just me thinking out loud about a bigger issue, possibly prompted mainly by my “corruption” in English Lit grad school.
I […]

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When I first started hearing the rhetoric right after 9/11/2001, that we were in a “war on terror,” I really didn’t want to be difficult. I mean, it was a horrible thing, people were passionate and grieving, and yeah I wanted revenge, or justice, or something.
But when I heard that, I thought, “I hope […]

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Whatever: Being Poor
Being poor is crying when you drop the mac and cheese on the floor.

Also:
Think Progress has a timeline up, showing in clear terms what our leaders were up to while disaster was striking.
Keith Olbermann’s now somewhat famous editorial blast.
Christopher Hitchens, who I think is a bit of a flake at times, […]

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I just want to brag a little about my current employer.
While most places would be horrified that anyone might take a few minutes out of the day to check on the status of areas hit by Hurricane Katrina, my intranet just published a quick item with links to various resources (National Hurricane Center, Red Cross, […]

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I’ve wondered the bit Denham says in the last sentence quite a bit myself. So many vendors sell software, and services to help you integrate it, but they don’t do anything about change management or cultural conditioning for their clients.
Do they think that offering such a service would make their software look bad?
Or maybe they […]

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Blobfest was big fun this weekend. I have a few pictures up from it in my Flickr stream.
This was everybody milling around in the heat and humidity, but still in good spirits.
We did the “running out and screaming” thing twice […]

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Wired 13.07: God’s Little Toys
Today, an endless, recombinant, and fundamentally social process generates countless hours of creative product (another antique term?). To say that this poses a threat to the record industry is simply comic. The record industry, though it may not know it yet, has gone the way of the record. Instead, the recombinant […]

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