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don’t forget to love

I love my partner and the above card from meish.org is why. Sickening isn?t it. But it captures my feelings about V-day perfectly. The following rant, however, rambles a bit and I apologize for that. Once again, another date looms dictating how we should be feeling....

internal editor be gone!

“What: Writing one 50,000-word novel from scratch in a month’s time. Who: You! We can’t do this unless we have some other people trying it as well. Let’s write laughably awful yet lengthy prose together. Why: The reasons are endless! To...

star-bellies revisited

After much debate and much snooping over my partners shoulder, I?ve decided to accept her invitation to Orkut. Despite my Sneetches rant from the other day, I still feel a bit weird about being in something that is ?invite only.? But after seeing some of the other...

access is king

Jumped over to Douglas Rushkoff?s blog today and that led me to this interesting article he wrote for TheFeature.com about owning data. The traditional view held that when you buy a book, CD, DVD or any other form of content, you own that content (and are thus...

orkut?s star-bellied sneetches

Today my partner got invited to Orkut. And it has raised some interesting questions in our blog-filled home. Of all the first-generation social software knocking around web, Orkut has received the most flack. From Danah Boyd to Cory Doctorow, Orkut has been much...