Year: 2007
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My new measurement of time in L.A.
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From now on, whenever I’m driving in L.A., I’m going to measure the elapsed time in ‘episodes’. As in episodes of 24. Example: “Wow, the last time I had to…
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Newt Gingrich: the Howard Dean of 2008
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Remember my comment last week? I think conditions are very ripe for the GOP to see a Dean-like candidate rise from nowhere. What I mean by that is that there’s…
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Interview with Business Week’s Heather Green
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For those who want to hear me pontificate on the state of podcasting, this week’s Cutting Edge podcast is a chat between Business Week’s Heather Green and me about podcasting,…
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Your interesting pictures on Flickr
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This is really cool: Flickr’s “interestingness” algorithm has always intrigued me (interested me?), and someone has cobbled together a way to check to see which of your pictures are considered…
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How Zune could beat the iPod
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OK, here’s my crazy idea for the week: Microsoft should update the firmware for the Zune to add podcasting support, then cut a deal with T-Mobile/Starbucks so that every Zune…
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Google Reader feature request
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I really enjoy using Google Reader as my online feed reader. But I just realized I wanted to do something that isn’t currently supported. Not sure whether this needs to…
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Thoughts on 2008
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Was talking with a friend the other night, and on the off chance that any of these ideas come to pass, I get to point back to this and show…
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Barack Obama for President
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As you’ve likely seen all over the web today, Barack Obama announced he’s formed an exploratory committee and will formally announce his decision about running for President on February 10…
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Learning digital photography
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A few weeks ago I asked for pointers to help get up to speed on digital photography. Now that I have a “real” camera (with each day, I find yet…
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Mom will be so proud
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Yesterday’s post debunking the claims of rampant pornography on the Wii got picked up in today’s New York Times blog The Lede (courtesy of a follow-up post at Techdirt –…