I have several friends who do very cool things, but have a fairly small presence on the Internet. So, I’m going to do my part to make their presence a bit larger by promoting some of their recent activities here. (1A9) I’ve mentioned John Ly’s Canine Cliques before, the premier source of luxury items [...]
John Stafford had an interesting response to my recent blog entry, “Million Dollar Dialog.” John said, “The problem with dialogue is that talk is cheap,” and then proceeded to tell an anecdote about a series of town hall meetings on education that led absolutely nowhere. (19U) Before I respond, I want to share Tom [...]
The good folks at President Barbershop on University Avenue in Palo Alto are essentially perfect barbers. First, they do a great job cutting hair. Anyone who knows what I look like knows that I’m very low maintenance about my hair. I like it short and clean-cut. Nevertheless, finding someone who can cut hair like this [...]
A few months ago, I mentioned Sheldon Chang‘s SocialWave project. Sheldon recently announced the first release of his communities, the flagship of which is Social Wave Campbell. (19G)
I was at a party this past weekend, and a group of us started discussing the following question: If you had a million dollars to spend on saving the world, what would you do with it? (196) Not surprisingly, there was quick consensus on investing that money into improving education for kids. Then we [...]
Fen Labalme posted some comments on SharedID, an authentication service for sharing personal information across different web sites: (16M) While this sounds promising, unfortunately SharedID is exactly the wrong thing. First off, it’s centralized (ug) – all authentications go through the SharedID site (another hideout for Big Brother?). Further, and this is a problem [...]
There were two good posts on careers in the blogosphere recently. Ross Mayfield advises future entrepreneurs in a piece entitled “Budding Entrepreneurship.” I liked all of his points, but my favorites were: (15C) Change your major. (15D) Take responsibility beyond your years. (15E) Have fun with failure. (15F) Do different. [...]
Tom Munnecke (a member of our Collaboration Collaboratory) posted some thoughts on Chaordic Commons. Tom, who’s currently working on a project called GivingSpace, worked with Dee Hock on a health care venture a while back and has some interesting insights into Dee and the Chaordic Commons. (14T) I want to take issue with something [...]
