Distractions for the Week of January 10-16, 2010

by Paul on January 20, 2010

The best of the things that I found, saw, watched on the web this week (only 4 days late).

Gore’s Choice – A tale of typography, choice and change – starring Al Gore, a mysterious character named Nikola and the number 1. (via John Gruber)

Letters of Note – In the words of my friend Marvin, this is one of the things that the “Internet was made for.” (via Reddit)

A New Approach to China – Google rethinks its approach to business in China because of attacks on gmail and the theft of some of its intellectual property that originated from there. Also, probably the best and most interesting analysis I read about the decision elsewhere.

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We’re Having A Boy!

by Paul on January 19, 2010

Lil baby boi arriving in June sez oh hai!

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Distractions for the Week of January 4-9, 2010

by Paul on January 9, 2010

The best of the things that I found, saw, watched on the web this week…

TED Talk – Elizabeth Gilbert on nurturing creativity. – “I would like the record to reflect that I showed up for my part of the job.” (via @missrogue)

A Diabetic Chick & A Crohn’s Guy Walk into a Bar – My friend @jodiiiii launches a blog for the New Year.

Move Your Money – Change starts with us. I’m kind of tired of my current (and soon to be former) bank neither earning my business and taking fees a bunch of new fees from our accounts. (another one via @missrogue)

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The Happiness Idea

by Paul on January 8, 2010

So in my desire to restart the blog, I started to write a post about The Whuffie Factor, an excellent book by Tara Hunt about social media, social capital and marketing. If you are interested in these things, then I definitely would recommend the book.

If you don’t know her, Tara is one my favorite thinkers in the whole marketing and social computing space. I originally came to know of her through Jane McGonigal who gave one of the keynotes (audio / slides) at SXSWi in 2008.

Jane is also one of my favorite thinkers. If you haven’t seen the linked slides or listened to the keynote and you are interested in design or business or marketing or games, then you really should. You can thank me later for sharing it with you.

Tara’s book is indeed very wonderful, and I will probably finish and post the blog entry about it later, but as I was writing it, I decided that there was a related but different topic that I wanted the first post on my restarted blog to be about.

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Just Like Starting Over

by Paul on July 22, 2009

Every so often, I feel the need to wipe the site clean, reboot it and start over. I’m not sure why, but I think it essentially boils down to the fact that I wasn’t completely delighted with the last incarnation of the site.

Do not fret! The creme brulee french toast recipe is not lost to mankind and the aloe memorial page is still be available for your personal reflection. I haven’t deleted the old content. I’ve just moved it here. I’ll organize it better later, but until then, you’re on your own for now.

Just as an aside, if you were are interested, the most popular entry from a page view perspective in the previous incarnation was this one.

I’m big with the home improvement crowd.

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