Interrelativity

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  • Content-centered Conversations: The Pew Internet Report on Teens and Social Media

    I finally read the recent Pew Internet & American Life Project report on Teens and Social Media. Among the most interesting findings, for me, were the correlation between the creation of content (online stories, photos, videos) and conversations about that content, and the connections between connecting online and connecting offline. As I'd noted with another…

  • Worst Speech Ever: Guy Kawasaki on Stupid Ideas, Indefensibility and Being a Mensch

    Guy Kawaski gave a great demonstration of and presentation on entrepreneurship in the Web 2.0 era at yesterday's PARC Forum. His new company, Truemors.com, is "a Web 2.0, User-Generated Content, Citizen Journalism, Long-Tail, Social Media Site" that cost him $12,107.09. The site enables anyone to post, comment on, or rate any breaking rumors or news.…

  • Spampliments, Spampliments, Spampliments, Spampliments …

    A reader using the name "Cara Fletcher" posted the following comment on the first blog entry I posted about my wife’s anal cancer (Anal Cancer: A Real Pain in the Butt): The anal cancer should be really a pain in the butt and I am sure it’s not very pleasant.I now have to deal with…

  • Don’t Take Anything Personally: Commenting on Commenting

    I recite Don Miguel Ruiz' Four Agreements as part of my daily mantra practice (mantras are positive affirmations reflecting qualities I want to cultivate in my self). I have already blogged about the ambivalence with which I sometimes view his Fourth Agreement, Always Do Your Best. I recently ruminated about my ambivalence regarding his Third…

  • Oriah and Buber, I and Thou: Bringing All Of Who I Am to Blogging

    I’ve been listening nearly exclusively to (and occasionally blogging about) David Whyte’s inspiring words in his audiobook, Clear Mind, Wild Heart, on my iPod for the past several months. Having finished my sixth cycle through [my rip of] his 6 CD set, I decided to listen to Oriah Mountain Dreamer’s audiobook, Your Heart’s Prayer  ……

  • Radical Transparency: Revelation, Reputation and Reciprocity

    The current issue of Wired has a great feature on radical transparency, highlighting the benefits that accrue to CEOs who are open to revealing their shadows, and exposing the risks to the reputations of those who continue to embrace secrecy and/or duplicity in their self representations. As with many Wired features, it is provocative ……

  • ETech 2007, Part 2: People, Power, Patterns and Practices

    I find it challenging to summarize my impressions of ETech 2007 in a single phrase (or a "one thing" that was most interesting, a question I often ask others returning from a conference). I already wrote about the themes of fun, games and magic at ETech, and Tim O'Reilly's recent post on a Call for…

  • ETech 2007 BoF: How can we support Kathy Sierra (and other women in our “community”)?

    As I noted in my last post about ETech, amidst the fun and excitement at the conference, I feel angry and sad — and feeling frustratingly helpless (and even a bit embarrassingly male) — about the acts of violence that have been perpetrated on Kathy Sierra (who had been the scheduled opening keynote speaker), including…

  • ETech 2007: Fun, Games, Magic … and Intimidation

    I’m attending my first Emerging Technologies Conference (ETech) this week, and have attended a number of interesting and engaging talks by a number of interesting and engaging people. The themes that seem to be emerging thus far are the use of technology for fun and games, and creating a sense of magic … though, unfortunately,…

  • On Virginity, Vulnerability and Vaccines

    Last night, I discovered of The Virginity Project (via Shel Israel’s blog), a book project in which Kate Monroe is compiling a list of stories about how, when and why people lost their virginity. On the drive in this morning, I heard a segment on NPR‘s Morning Edition entitled "Young People and Sex: Parents, Can…