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Was just looking at the metro map for Tokyo to see what some of my daily commutes might look like this time around. VERY sweet. Everything within reach. Direct from Shimo-Kitazawa: - Harajuku - Shibuya - Shinjuku (and from...

I had to do this. It may seem insane to take off now but I have to do this. The next 3 weeks are going to be off the hook as I wrap up old work and engage all...

I'm not sure what to make of this series of new Volkswagen GTI commercials: "de-pimping your auto." Part of me is laughing pretty hard, but another is cringing, especially at the racial/cultural stereotyping: ugly rigid "weirdo eccentric" german guy pulling...

The key to telling a joke that will get you laughs, is telling it the way the audience would (if they knew how). Same goes for clients. If you cannot tell the joke, then perform it. Slapstick. Generally folks don't...

Rebecca does an absolutely great job of summing up many of the issues and thoughts and results of the U.S. Congressional hearings held last week concerning U.S. technology companies and their roles in Internet censorship regimes around the world. We...

I spent the end of this past summer building the USC Interactive Media Department's website/weblogs/aggregator system. As I said back then, it was a heck of a fun project and I realize now that it gave me many of the...

From Dav's Flickr stream: Dav laments and sells his Second Life plot of land because of the overdevelopment in his neighborhood over the last year. Amazing! Dav, I'll come visit your new waterfront spot!...

Consider this: U.S. Senate Majority Leader Bill Frist said the Bush administration should put on hold a deal to stop state-controlled Dubai Ports World of the United Arab Emirates from managing sea ports in New York, New Jersey, Baltimore, New...

The last time I marked the anniversary of my father's passing here was 3 years ago. He passed 7 years ago. So fast. Sigh....

"Context" is very much my favorite word these days. People around me must be getting really sick of hearing me yammer on about it. Anyways, Karl shares this great entry from Tao of Mac: Doing less things at a time...

(I promised myself not to make cynical comments about such things as weblogs and web 2.0 and all that silliness anymore but...) A wonderful glowing example of how "media" perverts "reality". "I don't care what is going on in...

Awesome. Merci Francis. ;)...

I just posted this on the WordPress support forums, see if it gets me anything. If you here have any thoughts please please please get in touch. :) Hi gang, While poking around for this post, I discovered that WP...

The sidewalks are slicker than skating rinks. The wind is gusting up to 78km/hr (50 miles an hour). Unless you weight upwards of 120lbs and have spikes on your shoes, stay home. Or, go the other extreme, rig up...

- "Hey how's it going?' - "Good good. I'm really tired though. I woke up at 5am, flew to Toronto, had a bunch of great meetings and conversations. I just got back." - "Wow, that a pretty crazy job you...

Mosaic: Happy Birthday Flickr!Originally uploaded by jbum. Wow, I totally missed it this year. Happy birthday gang!! Thanks SO much for this wondrous world of marvels. I moblogged Stewart, Ben and Eric introducing Flickr at ETech 2004, and I was...

My writings here have dropped off for about a year now because I seem to have forgotten something that had previously been a hard won affordance: don't worry too much about what people think of you. If you've been reading...

Whew! I just launched Mimi Ito's new website. I actually launched it earlier this evening while running back and forth to the laundromat, and after having dinner with Steven and attending a vernissage quickly, I spent the rest of...

Listen, it's bad enough that you are smoking in here (even though legally for the moment you are still allowed), but the fact that you are one of these idiots who leaves his cigarette burning in the ashtray is beyond...

The success of all these things such as weblogs, websyndication, etc, is directly attributable, I think, to one basic fact: weblogs are basic, rudimentary Content Management Systems. At risk of over-simplifying, I say that human intellect, human intelligence itself, in...

I'm thinking I'm going to set up a resources matchmaking service on a subdomain of helppush.org. I keep getting emails like this one from friend Jon Lebkowsky: My WorldChanging colleague Emily Gertz has just set up a blog for her...

"The Diamond Age : Or, a Young Lady's Illustrated Primer" (Neal Stephenson) I thought: Nanotech will bridge cyberspace and "realspace". Why? Because if indeed in cyberspace anything is possible, it is so because anything can be created from scratch and...

While I was out to dinner, I was alerted via IM to two interesting things. First, the BBC has become a member of the W3C. That is fantastic news. Especially with this past information in mind. And, while already 3...