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| Monday, January 2, 2006 |
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Onward and Edgeward 
| | Write. Then write more. Write till it scares the crap out of you. If it doesn¹t, press on; it will. Write till you get brave enough to keep writing in spite of how scared you are. In spite of what anyone thinks, including yourself. |
| | The upside is that you'll find out who you are. The downside is, well... that you¹ll find out who you are. |
Happy 30th Birthday, Steve
| | If I had to give an award for coming up with ideas and spreading them, Steve Gillmor would be at the top of my list. |
| | In 2005 Steve not only solidified his role as a leader in podcasting (and broadcasting, since I now often hear his voice on Sirius Satellite Radio), but came up with two breakthrough ideas based on his own deep insights into both What's Going On and Human Nature. The first was attention, the second was gestures. |
| | Yesterday, while I was driving to Las Vegas, Steve called me on the phone and remarked on what I wrote about the connection between getting older and skiing faster — and with more abandon — down the slope of time. |
| | "Fifty-eight is the new thirty," Steve said. We agreed that thirty is about how it feels, bifocals notwithstanding. |
| | Kind of like having your virginity renewed, almost. |
Dept. of Perfections
| | With Wikipedia, the balance of knowing shifts from the individual to the social process. The solution to a failure of knowledge (as the Seigenthaler entry clearly was) is to fix the social process, while acknowledging that it will never work perfectly. There are still individuals involved, of course, but Wikipedia reputations are made and advanced by being consistent and persistent contributors to the social process. Yes, persistent violators of the social trust can be banished from Wikipedia, but the threat of banishment is not what keeps good contributors contributing well. |
Reflection collection
| | Jerrytopia (subtitle: Video Blog Burlesque) is a new blog (and series of productions) by my friend Charlie and his alter ego, Jerry, a professional aluminum foil installer. |
Confer amongst yourselves
| | Please, everyone, tell us what you want, who you want, what the best method is, all of it. Once you tell us, we'll work to deliver. That's our job. |
Happy New Dawn
Give me DiMucci
| | While Celine and her style tend to make me punch another button on the radio, I thought, Okay, she's an extraordinary singer and performer, and we've heard nothing but good reports about the show, and my wife got some tickets, sooo... sure. I'm always up for anything. |
| | While the hard-core fans loved it, and while I appreciate Celine's rapport with her audience, the show was a long, weird, loud endurance test for the whole family. Even for my wife, who doesn't share my antipathy toward Celine's style. |
| | Later, when we were running down the show over pizza (mine) and ice cream (the kid's), we agreed the problem is that Celine overstates everything. Her style is as subtle as a siren, and twice as loud. |
| | And, while she's not a bad dancer, and has a charismatic stage presence, she also doesn't seem to know what to do with her face, which always seems ready to break into a different expression. |
| | You know how Renee Zellweger doesn't seem to know what to do with her face when she isn't acting? Celine seems to be doing that, full-time. Or at least on stage. |
| | Anyway, there's a first time for everything. In this case, also the last. |
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