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proof - a photo of me actually working

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A rare sighting of me at work captured live by an iPhone.

Got Kombucha? Tee

New Shirt up on Definitive Tee's. Also slightly Park Slope Food Coop oriented but really who doesn't love Kombucha? Available in brightly colored small sizes and onesies too. Profits (if any?) will go to hunger relief and not my growing habit for the sweet-tart tea.

A Cool Shoe?

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A converse Chukka boot mash-up. Thoughts?

Texas Tribune launch looks well thought out

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Nieman has a really nice post up about the new Texas Tribune site. They tour the features which look like a great combination of news you need now and informational utitliy areas.

Hello Kitty Skeleton Drawing

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When Willa is (much) older I hope she is the kind of kid who appreciates this without being too goth. I used to (and fact still do) love books that had plastic overlays that peel back to display the foundations of things. via Kottke

Perhaps Newspapers Are Dying Because Our Sense Of Place Is Too.

We no longer imagine the newspaper as a city or the city as a newspaper. Whatever I may say in the rant that follows, I do not believe the decline of newspapers has been the result solely of computer technology or of the Internet. The forces working against newspapers are probably as varied and foregone as the Model-T Ford and the birth-control pill. We like to say that the invention of the internal-combustion engine changed us, changed the way we live. In truth, we built the Model-T Ford because we had changed; we wanted to remake the world to accommodate our restlessness. We might now say: Newspapers will be lost because technology will force us to acquire information in new ways. In that case, who will tell us what it means to live as citizens of Seattle or Denver or Ann Arbor? The truth is we no longer want to live in Seattle or Denver or Ann Arbor. Our inclination has led us to invent a digital cosmopolitanism that begins and ends with “I.” Careening down Geary Boulevard on the 38 bus, I can talk to my my dear Auntie in Delhi or I can view snapshots of my cousin’s wedding in Recife or I can listen to girl punk from Glasgow. The cost of my cyber-urban experience is disconnection from body, from presence, from city.

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From - Final edition: Twilight of the American newspaper—By Richard Rodriguez (Harper's Magazine) which reads like a Walter Benamin-like meditation on place and printed news. Unfortunately for linking purposes Harper's is behind a subscriber wall.

For Gillian Welch Fans Orphan Girl 10 Ways via Cover Lay Down

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I really love this blog.

"Patch getting a year to see where it goes" and some observations on successful local content

Patch.com President Warren Webster told us in a separate discussion that the Patch team has learned a lot about local communities and what people are interested in. “Police and fire information is very popular,” and “government news inspires a lot of debate,” he said. Webster was surprised, however, that weddings and obituaries aren’t more popular at this point — perhaps because users aren’t yet conditioned to get that information from a local online site. School sports have been more promising.

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O'Reilly on not focusing on the form of the book but the function

Here’s the rub: most peo­ple think­ing about ebooks are focused on cre­at­ing an elec­tronic recre­ation of print books, com­plete with down­load­able files and devices that look and feel like books. This is a bit like point­ing a cam­era at a stage play and con­clud­ing that was the essence of filmmaking!

At O’Reilly, we’ve tried to focus not on the form of the book but on the job that it does for our cus­tomers. It teaches, it informs, it enter­tains. How might elec­tronic pub­lish­ing help us to advance those aims? How might we cre­ate a more effec­tive tool that would help our cus­tomers get their job done?

It was by ask­ing our­selves those ques­tions that we real­ized the advan­tages of an online library avail­able by sub­scrip­tion. One of the best things about online tech­ni­cal books is the abil­ity to search the full text of a book. How much bet­ter would it be to be able to search across thou­sands of books? Safari Books Online was our answer.

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Active, On Alert, Suspended, and Grace Period Set, Park Slope Coop T-Shirts

Inspired by the invisible mark of shame felt by the author of last week's ridiculous NYT essay on the Park Slope Coop, I've decided to make some t-shirts that reflect a member's status.  Buy and wear them proudly. 100% of the profits will go to a local hunger relief charity.

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