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Tacit knowledge, abundant examples, and deliberate practice 26 Aug 2013 | 09:07 pm
Last week some friends at a local marketing firm invited me to join them in Boston at a conference called Inbound. I’m glad I went. Not because I learned much about inbound marketing, whatever that is...
If we want private communication we can have it 22 Aug 2013 | 09:34 pm
If you received an email message from me during the early 2000s, it came with an attachment that likely puzzled or annoyed you. The attachment was my digital ID. In theory you could use it for a coupl...
Why I subscribe to the Ann Arbor Chronicle (part 2) 1 Aug 2013 | 09:10 pm
I’ve written before about why I subscribe to the Ann Arbor Chronicle. As of today, my Ann Arbor Chronicle Number is 10. That’s the number of months I’ve been sending a modest donation to the Chronicle...
Changeable minds 22 Jul 2013 | 10:10 pm
Minds change rarely. I wonder a lot about what happens when they do, and I often ask people this question: What’s something you believed deeply, for a long time, and then changed your mind about? Th...
Learning to walk (again) 3 Jun 2013 | 09:04 pm
Over the years I’ve had a number of overuse injuries: tendinitis from too much typing or mousing or music playing, a sore shoulder from too much swimming, painful knees and ankles from too much runnin...
Upcoming is downgoing, Elm City is ongoing 3 May 2013 | 08:52 pm
Here’s Andy Baio’s farewell to Upcoming, a service I’ve been involved with for a decade. In a March 2005 blog post I wrote about what I hoped Upcoming would become, in my town and elsewhere, and offer...
Community calendar workshop next week in Newport News 19 Apr 2013 | 09:32 pm
My next community calendar workshop will be at the Peninsula Fine Arts Center in Newport News, on Tuesday April 23 at 6PM. It’s for groups and organizations in the Hampton Roads region of Virginia, in...
Walled fields of knowledge 19 Mar 2013 | 11:30 pm
My dad died of congestive heart failure in 2009. The last weeks of his life weren’t what they could have been had we known enough to get him into hospice care. But we didn’t know, and I’ve felt ashame...
Networks of first-class peers 18 Mar 2013 | 07:27 pm
Last month ago I wrote a column for Wired.com, Rebooting web comments, that attracted some unsavory feedback. Had the flamers read beyond the second paragraph they might have seen that I wasn’t insist...
Indie theaters and open data 4 Mar 2013 | 10:53 pm
Movie showtimes are easy to find. Just type something like “movies keene nh” into Google or Bing and they pop right up: You might assume that this is open data, available for anyone to use. Not so, as...
