"It's kind of an example of how brands can become patrons, supporting and introducing artists and vendors who maybe no one has heard of, but most of whom operate within a few blocks of the space." via sfist.com Curator and... | Continue »

My latest Discardia post is about choosing what you most want and don't want in your life and then bearing those priorities in mind when faced with options (which we are all day, every day). Here are my choices: I... | Continue »

Having the archives of Feed back online makes me crazy happy. As does this introductory bit from Steven Johnson... when we started FEED, it was much harder to imagine a world of asymmetric media, where a small group of underfunded... | Continue »

My mom was just down visiting and brought along with her a bag of Trenary Toast. This Yooper delicacy is twice-baked bread, somewhere between zweiback and biscotti, in our case we had a bag of cinnamon toast. Delicious when dunked... | Continue »

"I’d propose that almost all government buildings have a slight fuck you attitude — they’re meant to be inspiring, but that often comes off as imposing and intimidating." Once again quoting David Byrne from his (TypePad!) blog | Continue »

Curious about the future of social networking? Whuffie is a conceptual social Metric based on what others think of you. In the future this Metric might actually be usable as real money. Why not? Celebrities are used to getting things for free based on their popularity. This is the same idea taken to its democratic extreme. Socializing will take on completely new dimensions when we can see everything public about a person right as we are talking with them. via designmind.frogdesign.com | Continue »

The toughest part of working in a small and close knit team is the day you have to wish a friend and colleague, best of luck in their new adventures. As many of you know,... | Continue »

Mostly, the design is new because I was ready to scrap a bland custom design and go with something from the Typepad gallery. I also like this one in part because it has a nice wide area for pictures in... | Continue »

The FOIA blog has reached 1000 posts. Since August of 2006, I've followed FOIA legislation, litigation and government wide policy changes. I've highlighted noteworthy FOIA requests and FOIA releases. And thankfully, a number of you have checked in on a... | Continue »

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Highlight section. Take screenshot. Open Photoshop mobile. Rotate image. Save and exit. Open photos. Select photo. Tap to email photo. Find blog email address. Add commentary. Send. (The bit is from Brad Feld's blog.) | Continue »

The Huffington Post is taking on more of the trappings of a social network. Borrowing from Foursquare, today it will start giving out badges to loyal readers who comment like crazy and share HuffPost stories via Facebook and Twitter (the Superuser), collect a lot of fans and followers (the Networker), or flag inappropriate comments (the Moderator). via techcrunch.com | Continue »

Another data point: sev­eral times now I’ve put a call out on Twit­ter for real-time edit­ing. As I get responses, I’ll DM vol­un­teers with links to a rough draft and a Google form. Then I’ll go out for cof­fee. I’ll be walk­ing up Clement Street, and on my phone, the feed­back will be stream­ing in—row after row blink­ing to life in a Google spreadsheet. It’s a remark­able feeling—somehow both antic­i­pa­tion and sat­is­fac­tion at the same time. Accom­plish­ment and grat­i­tude… with a lit­tle edge of fear. There’s got to be oxy­tocin involved. via snarkmarket.com | Continue »

Here I am once again pulling back in frustration and anger from my use of Facebook. I don't want to have to do this. I want there to be an easy way for me to keep up with people I... | Continue »

Note -- this was originally posted to Buzz. You can follow me there if you're so inclined. Not that I'm ready to do this, but could one move their RSS reading into Buzz? Can you subscribe to an RSS feed... | Continue »

Edward Vielmetti has an interesting take on Ben Hammersley's post from yesterday re. metadata and publishing... Metadata only works when you un-meta it and deal with it again as data. The list of metadata elements that I care enough to... | Continue »

Ben Hammersley comes through with part two of his three part series on what needs to happen to magazine publishing to take advantage of digital distribution. The key? Metadata. The necessity above all else of keeping your metadata might seem... | Continue »

"Hello, Ohio!" Bruce Springsteen to the Auburn Hills (Michigan) audience he was playing for. Finally Steve Van Zandt whispered in his ear that they were actually in Michigan (via Yahoo News) | Continue »