A Likely Story

Ok Zuckerberg. LOVE the new Subscribe feature. (I’m one of many, many who couldn’t seem to find the time to draw a ring around any Google+ circles.) Not quite sure, however, if I’m comfortable having you and your Facebook minions determine exactly what constitutes a “Life Event” for me and my “friends.” So, I’ve been […]

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Ok, Facebook freaks, start copying all your precious personal tidbits and paste them somewhere. That 4-paragraph-long list of favorite movies, copy-n-paste. That 3-page note about the meaning of life, copy-n-paste. That funny thread from your high school boyfriend that made your knees knock again, copy-n-paste. Get ready to rebuild your profiles because Google is gunning for […]

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Who do you really want in charge in Afghanistan? Rolling Stone writer Michael Hastings has created the kind of stir that political journalists love: his treatise on surly Stan McChrystal changed the course of history. Undoubtably, McChrystal should have done a better job managing his image. Army generals probably aren’t allowed to Tweet, but some […]

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I was shocked to read in the L.A. Times this morning that bloggers and Fox’s Bill O’Reilly are making an issue of Supreme Court designee Elena Kagan’s sexual orientation. Times columnist James Rainey makes some excellent points about how mainstream media outlets such as both Times (New York and LA), NPR and the Associated Press […]

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This morning, I set out a cute Easter display complete with bunnies both stuffed and chocolate. In the middle of it all, I placed a photo of my kids when they were little. Took a quick pic, posted it to Facebook as a Happy Easter message to my college kids and waited for my 15-year-old […]

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The Los Angeles Times sold its soul to the Mad Hatter early this month for a reported pittance of $300,000.  Subscribers awoke to find Johnny Depp had been burned into the front page: The Times continues to meander down the path of confusion in dealing with new media. Journalists throughout the Southland belted out a […]

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I just finished a 4550 location book on my Kindle. While “kindling” Clay Shirky’s “Here Comes Everybody,” I “highlighted” more than 250 locations. I can now quickly search that file for any notation I’d like to recall. I was pleased to know that every single word I read was backed up by a definition. As I […]

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Chris Anderson, in his NY Times bestseller “Free: The Future of a Radical Price,” asks Stewart  Brand about his oft-quoted maxim, “. . . information wants to be free . . .” and its in Brand’s answer that we find the reason for the capital “F” in Anderson’s Free. Brand (founder of Whole Earth Catalogue) […]

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Father of the hyperlink and file transfer protocol Tim Berners-Lee gave a cool TED talk last year about the “Semantic Web:” all the data on the web not just sitting there in silos, but forming links on its own and extrapolating new information from that synergy with little human interaction. Check out this year’s similar TED talk  by Gary Flake about a […]

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Is there an unfriending trend? Matt Singley (M80) is defriending people on Facebook. Raanan Bar-Cohen (Automattic) keeps a private WordPress blog for family.  Are execs at social media companies starting a trend? Or is this just a natural correction to the glutted friendship market? Wasn’t it exciting to add friends to our lists? It was like high school all […]

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