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On July 5, while most of America is recovering form whatever it is they do to themselves the day before, I’ll be strapped into a plane 15 hours to fly to Australia. Yes, despite whatever happened, whomever I coughed on, on my visit there last October they are letting me come back. modified from creative [...]

I’m not sure what to call the breed of web tools that enable you to draw in content from other web X.0 sites automatically– some call them lifestream (maybe not, wikipedia lands you somewhere else) more like http://lifestreamblog.com/. Swurl is a new one and I am liking its elegance. I get my requisite custom URL and [...]

If the web is at 2.0, then listserv technology must be at a fractional decimal too small to bother writing. I first experienced them around 1988 as a graduate student at Arizona State University- heck it was even before full internet, as my email address was on BITNET. I helped a prof administer a listerv [...]

As much as I like to poke fun at twitter’s reliable flakiness and curse the fail whale… For inexplicable reasons, I stay. Again, twitter is not essential. My days go in fine with or without it. What value is it? No… scratch all of that. Twitter just saved me from a huge gaffe. And it would have put web [...]

How about yet one more example of neat things that happen when you share your stuff? This is a photo I posted a month ago on flickr; it is a wooden drafting table my Dad had used back in the 1950s and after years of storage in an attic, I decided to re stain it: Nothing [...]