The Desert of My Dreams

You couldn’t figure out the “World’s Theory” for yourself? It’s just common sense. Anybody knows, ya gotta keep your worlds apart.
- George explaining to Jerry the “World’s Theory” on Seinfeld - The Pool Guy
If you’re a Seinfeld fan like me (as in you’d rather re-watch Seinfeld over and over again as opposed to watching the […]

I’ve somehow missed it yet again - my six year blogiversary!  I started officially blogging on October 1st, 2001.  I’m amazed that I’m still blogging and have somehow managed to turn it into a professional interest.  A lot of things have changed in my life since October 2001 - I don’t live in IL, I’m […]

As of today’s photo, I’m officially at the halfway point of Project 365. I have taken 183 photos and have 182 more to go. Even though there are days when I’m not feeling creative and I’m at a loss for photo ideas, I’m really glad I joined the project. It’s been really […]

I celebrated my birthday a few weeks ago.  This year was a bit different from the other 26 birthdays I’ve celebrated in my life - a larger percentage of my social network (and my strongest ties) are distributed across the country (and around the world).  Even when I was going to school at SI, my […]

I just heard danah boyd give a great talk about MySpace.  A few random notes:

Friendster lost its momentum by essentially battling with their users - deleting fake profiles, taking out features, etc
MySpace is successful for a number of reason: indy bands are there, they welcome teens, all their friends are there, personalization of profiles, conversations […]

During the past few months, I’ve been observing some changes in the blogging behaviors of many of my friends. I’ve been referring to their behavior as microblogging. I thought I was onto something new but a quick Live search reveals that the term has been floating around for awhile (just when I thought I had […]

A few weeks ago, I joined Eszter’s Project 365, where the idea is to take a photo a day for a year. I’ve been meaning to get started with the project for a few weeks but I’ve had plenty of false starts - a two or three day […]

I’ve been thinking about starting a new blog to contain my thoughts about social software, HCI, and user experience. Some of the content will be my latest ideas about the field, reviews of the latest services I’ve been playing with, and some of my del.icio.us links (but with expanded commentary). So my question […]

One of my least favorite things about social software is the unnatural task of requesting friends. I just signed up for Netflix last week and I only have one friend. :(
I haven’t figured out a good way to discover friends on Netflix so I figured I’d ask here - do you use Netflix? […]

I managed to get an invite to the uber exclusive Vox. You might think I’m talking about a trendy hot spot but Vox is a new blogging service created by SixApart, the same company that brought you MovableType, TypePad, and acquired LiveJournal. I’ve only spent a few minutes playing with it but I […]