12 frogs read think get curious

Be useful, collect stuff, tell stories

Paul Saffo is a forecaster who keeps a paper journal, but posts some of his thoughts online. He put up The Internet and the three desires last month, and it made a lot of sense to me:

Reduce human complexity to its essentials, and I think humans are motivated by three desires: being useful, collecting stuff [...]


UGM, UGC, UCC.. is the web trying to cough up a hairball?

The English language may not be up to web 2.0.
Social media sounds better than the shorthand for “user generated media” “user generated content” and “user created content” doesn’t it? TPFKATA is kinda funny (who doesn’t enjoy a joke at the expense of his Purpleness?) and makes a brilliant point, but looks like part of the [...]


Trust me, I’m telling you stories

I just got home from JWA’s tenth anniversary celebration. These kind of events aren’t really my thing — arguably, any social function involving more than three other people and leaving the house isn’t my kind of thing — but I’m glad I went.
Gail Reimer, the executive director and founder of the Jewish Women’s Archive, lived [...]


After →


View All » leaving portlandwrong directiontanksspeeding past cemeterywaiting for winterfallen leaves and frostno longer picnic seasonseat at the tablefrosted oakfrosted maplemorning in the woods