It’s been over two weeks since my last post. That’s probably the longest time without an update in close to a year. It’s mostly a matter of guilt – I’ve had things I would have liked to write up, but every time I think about doing it, I think about the papers I should be […]
Come Out and Play
My life, it is busy. Let’s do the quick update of every night since my last post on Monday, September 19th, when I went to the Social Media Club. Tuesday: Stayed home and studied. My only day without interaction outside of work in the last three weeks Wednesday and Thursday: Class (my normal Tuesday class […]
Feedback karma
I went to the Social Media Club meeting this evening here in New York. I’m astonished and inspired by how far this has come in a year. This started rolling last year at the Web 2.1 unconference, and continued with a BrainJam a couple months later. Now Chris Heuer is jetting around (he just flew […]
Art and connection
In an amusing example of the way in which conversations can take unexpected turns, somebody on a mailing list I frequent posted the question “Are Xena and Buffy Really the Same Show?”. As a long-time Buffy fan, I immediately had to jump in to claim that they were not because Buffy was far superior. As […]
The Power of Song
I’m on the Carnegie Hall weekly events list. Last week’s email announced a Community Sing of Mozart’s Requiem, to commemorate the fifth anniversary of 9/11. That immediately became a priority for me to attend. Some background: The Saturday after 9/11 was our choral retreat. We were rehearsing the Brahms Requiem at the time, and Vance, […]
Multi-dimensional patterns
Okay, so I should be tooling. But I was just out to dinner with friends, and had a thought and want to jot it down so I can think about it later. I was trying to define what made people interesting to me. And the answer I came up with was that I liked well-rounded […]
Nonfiction roundup
Lipstick on a Pig, by Torie Clarke Subtitled “Winning in the No-Spin Era by Someone Who Knows the Game”, this book is one woman’s perspective on playing the PR and communications game in the panopticon era. I thought it was pretty decent for providing some good overall principles for a communications strategy, with advice like […]
Articulation of virtual cues
Jofish wrote me at the end of last week: i like that i have had four different communications of varying degrees of privacy from you in the last few days: nehrlich.com blog posts, lj blog posts, email to a handful of people and individual emails. wow. it’s almost like this whole electronic medium lets you… […]
Deconstructing Sweet Home Alabama
I saw the movie Sweet Home Alabama yesterday. It was decently entertaining, but later in the evening, I started thinking about the cultural memes that it is propagating, possibly because I have been reading too many of Jessie’s posts. The rest of this post will involve spoilers so if you have not seen the movie […]
High school nostalgia
Ei-Nyung’s post about her high school got me thinking about my high school experience. That was reinforced by going out to dinner with a high school friend last week, and realizing I have completely failed to keep in touch with anybody from high school (other than this friend, who I found out moved to New […]
