I believe that there are those who do care about others. Those who say “Thank you” when you hold the door, or wave when you let them into traffic, or even those who let you in to traffic themselves. That seems to me far less cynical than the belief that we only treat each other well when we have something to gain.

My son’s class is collecting a “shape museum” (just like his sister’s class did 3 years ago). Basically this means they’re supposed to bring in examples of 3D shapes that they can discuss in class - you know, stuff like boxes, cones, like that. For us, this year’s shapes were a graham cracker […]

Alex Barnett, always thinking about attention issues (I know how that is, Alex) has posted 20 thoughts on Attention. The most important is #4:
“From the customer’s perspective, the future value of Attention data does not lie in its monetization potential. At best this will turn out to be few dollars per year per […]

Cory Doctorow’s posted an excellent comparison of the distinctions between incorrect (or false) statements in Wikipedia and a Mainstream Media source, the Register. Quotable quote:
“The Reg is the Wikipedia vandal you can’t revert.”
Real takeaway:
“Wikipedia’s transparent approach to the truth lays out all sides of the debate where all can see them and judge for […]

Seth Godin:

“Five thousand years ago, every human was a hunter. If you were hungry, you got a rock or a stick and you went hunting.
The problem was that all of the animals were either dead or really good at hiding.”

One could argue that the problem wasn’t the change in the animals, but instead in the […]

Some readers may know that I’ve been working with Doug Kaye and the team at IT Conversations since May 2005 or so, as a show description/website editor and Series Producer.
The next step in Doug’s (and the team’s, but mostly under Doug’s guiding hand) broad vision for open audio on the web is now live. […]

Saw this last week on my drive to work:

Didn’t have a camera until this morning, so I had to pull off and take a snapshot of it.
I don’t know what it means, really. Are they “delivering blogging” meaning content? Tools?
Searching their corporate news site I see the following links:

SBC Companies Offer New Platform […]

By which I mean those silly lists that plague the end of every year. Having taken a partial break from the Internets over the holidays I’ve been fairly successful at avoiding them and at keeping my desire to toss my laptop out the window fairly low as well.
Is it safe to come back […]