A bunch of stuff happening lately, most about the book and its workshops of course.
San Francisco’s Live 105 is a radio station that has the tagline, “Fighting to Keep Alternative Music Alive in the Bay Area.” This irks me to no end.
I’m headed back to one of my favorite cities, Austin, for SXSW 2006. If you’re there and you know of me but I don’t know you, introduce yourself. I’ll be doing the same to people I know by name/reputation only, when I’m not simply following Lane around from event to event.
By now, you might know that Adaptive Path’s first product, Measure Map, has been sold. I’ve been a MM addict user for about eight months now and my blog was one of the first 20 or so that was tracked by the service. I’d use it even if the people who made it didn’t sit a few feet away from me.
One of the things I was unprepared for when I moved back to San Francisco after a nearly 20 year absence was how much of a one-industry town the city has become.
It’s hard not to see the allegory when, on the same day I see King Kong, a story about a wild thing, the last of its kind, brought down by greed, Ted Stevens, asshole senator from Alaska, tries to bring down ANWAR. Except of course, Kong can fight back. ANWAR is just caribou and polar bears.
One funny thing about blog entries is that they are supposed to be timely, and yet every time I’ve posted something with a relative time reference (“Yesterday, I…” or “Last week there was a discussion about…”), I’ve regretted it.
Perhaps I am naive about this, but I feel it’s the job of Congress, specifically the Senate Judiciary committee, to examine presidential nominees to the bench for competence and extremism, not ideology.
I thought I was a real badass this week, coming up with a new word: creageous, a mashup of creative and courageous. But of course, others had come up with it before…
A lot of people (not me) have worked very hard over the last two years to make one man’s rant and another guy’s subsequent idea a reality. The Interaction Design Group has now incorporated as a non-profit organization, the Interaction Design Association.