I believe it was my business partner Jessica who first said the word Pinterest out loud. I asked what she was referring to and I was shown this odd website that looked like a mix between an ad agency’s mood wall and some gal’s “vision board”. I joked that I hadn’t heard of Pinterest, but [...]
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I was talking with my friend Rachel, and she was explaining she spends more and more time reading blogs these days. It’s not particularly surprising. ”Blog” is really one of those non-words, because it attempts to explain far too large a category. There are an endless variety of blogs out there, from the informative to [...]
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The internet is constantly evolving, and as the owner and lead developer for a web development studio, I am in the constant state of re-teaching myself how it is that I perform the work I do. While I imagine workers in most fields need to keep aware of whatever is occurring in their profession [...]
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The first week of 2011 has come to an end, and my what a week.
A visit to the oral surgeon on Monday confirmed that I had a cavity in one of my wisdom teeth, and based on the dentist’s recommendation, I opted to have all four wisdom teeth removed at once. As luck would have [...]
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I’m flying down to San Francisco at the moment – 20000 feet in the sky – writing a blog post on my iPad. In fact, minus a few obvious items like clothes and an assortment of travel size bathroom products – I brought little more than my iPhone and iPad on this trip.
I didn’t even [...]
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It’s been a rough couple weeks.
A close friend lost his sister in a car accident three weeks ago – and just when I was beginning to breath regularly again and not self-reflect the incident on my own reality and my own beloved family – I received a Facebook message from one of my closest friend’s [...]
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Last week I had two occurrences which made me contemplate the information revolution and how it might effect our lives in some unique ways. Sometimes the technology comes at us so fast we forget that it hasn’t been with us for very long. I can hardly imagine myself without a cell phone – but less [...]
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“Never think too little of people; there’s always a little less to be thought.”
- ‘Sly Fox’ by Larry Gelbart
On Friday – in what was nothing short of a calculated, yet pathetic attempt to kill a huge news story by giving a press conference when most members of the media (including her own spokesperson) were [...]
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