Everyone is entitled to my opinion
Posted in food, Uncategorized on Jul 4th, 2009
In honor of July 4th, Independence Day, I am going to school all of you in the preparation of a proper New England Lobster Roll. To the visitor to New England (“from away” as you’re known here) I will warn you that there are dining establishments that claim to serve lobster rolls, but most are [...]
Posted in Uncategorized on Mar 22nd, 2009
Many thanks to Jeff Pulver for creating a stimulating mini-unconference on March 10th called Social Media Jungle Boston, and particularly for inviting me to speak on the topic “The End of the Compuserve Era of Social Networking.” Jeff Glasson of PerkettPR did yeoman duty videotaping all of the presentations that day. I can’t imagine how [...]
Posted in Uncategorized on Mar 1st, 2009
I had a brief interchange with Jeff Cutler on Twitter just now about the old bloggers-aren’t-journalists debate. This on the heels of listening to Daniel Schorr on NPR yesterday talk about how it’s disturbing to him that anyone can “publish” things on the internet and no editor or staff fact-checks it or holds it to [...]
Posted in Uncategorized on Jan 26th, 2009
A couple of weeks ago, I was contacted by Ravit Lichtenberg (@ravit_ustrategy) to help with some perspective on a blog post she is preparing. Ravit is the founder of Ustrategy LLC, whom I met through one of her clients, Julie Rorrer (@juliedarling), a fellow Connecticut Twitterer. (Really, how else does anyone meet these days except [...]
Posted in Uncategorized on Dec 29th, 2008
If you’re a golfer like me, or familiar at all with the sport, you’ve probably heard of Natalie Gulbis. She’s the leggy, blond golf pro who not only looks good, but has the game to have won on the LPGA tour, which is no mean feat. Most professional golfers struggle for years and never come [...]
Posted in Uncategorized on Dec 23rd, 2008
If there are any WordPress plugin coders reading this, I need your help. I’m writing a WordPress plugin to add Open Microblogging Support to a blog. In order to do this, I’d like the plugin to add a special OpenMicroblogging Page to the blog. This special Page is supported by a custom Page Template. Page [...]
Posted in Uncategorized on Dec 4th, 2008
@Pamelump (Pamela Leigh Seiple) just tagged me with this photo meme. I have to go to the 6th photo on my 6th Flickr page and write a blog post about it. Ok, so the aforementioned photo (6,6) is this one: This photo is from a set I made about a year ago, on a very [...]
Posted in development, Uncategorized on Nov 23rd, 2008
After spending quite a few hours on yesterdays post, OAuth and OMB post-sharing, it occurred to me with the first cup of coffee this morning that I had missed one important user interface twist in the use of OAuth that actually makes it quite necessary. It depends on how the UI for subscribing works. If, [...]
Posted in Uncategorized on Nov 22nd, 2008
This post has been superseded. I missed an important web UI issue which lead me to an incorrect conclusion. Square peg, round hole The OpenMicroBlogging Specification (OMB) contains a section on the use of OAuth to authorize a remote service to post to a user’s local service. After spending some time studying the OAuth and [...]
Posted in Uncategorized on Oct 6th, 2008
This morning, I read an excellent blog post entitled “A Failure of Ideas, not Execution”, by Hank Williams, which was copied on the nextNY blog. It’s about the failure of most Web 2.0 companies to be acquired because they don’t have any strategy for making money from their ideas. One particular aspect of these failures [...]