Little bit of a Great Harmonic Google Convergence going on here. Jon Udell mentions in passing his rise and fall from the top of the “Jon” results. Stephen Downes replies in a amusing comment that he defeated Stephen King and Stephen Hawking — only to be conquered by the last of the Norman Kings. Meanwhile, Continue reading

Sony set out to be the iTunes of book-publishing with its Sony Reader. And Sony built a pretty good technical and marketing replica of that iPod model — with an initial online offering that was comparable to Apple’s initial limited selection, with a desktop piece of software clearly modeled on the iTunes client, with redistribution Continue reading

So I saw through someone’s feed on Facebook that National Novel Writing Month is going on. This is an improvement — I usually notice this when it’s already over. I dithered a bit on whether I should attempt it with the month half gone and so many other things in the works here. And then Continue reading

Ah, zee blogs… So I’ve been away a bit, working on the college’s AT vision plan, which I wiki-ed out over a period of a week with some other folks. That turns out to be interesting from a process standpoint…we did some marathon work on it the past two weeks, and presented it to an Continue reading

So there’s a front page article today in the Wall Street Journal. The subject? My political blog, Blue Hampshire. The title? “Have a Laptop? You, Too, Can Sway New Hampshire Race.” Subtitle? “Self-Appointed Bloggers Get Candidate Face Time; On the Bus With Edwards” You know, there’s so much insecurity in that headline that I’m nervous Continue reading