Om on why I can’t pay att… ooh look, shiny!
Flying Lotus, Never Catch Me
Music videos are themselves an art form, and it’s always interesting to me how an artist chooses to transform the interpretation of their song with the video. I’ve listened to this song since it came out but haven’t seen the video until now, and it will definitely make me listen to it differently. Featuring Kendrick Lamar.
MT 3.16
Congrats to Jay and his team on Movable Type 3.16. There are some “orange level” security problems fixed, so be sure to upgrade! It’s a day for releases.
NYC Day 2
New York Times; True party at Hearst building
Jenna Wortham writes on Trying to Live in the Moment (and Not on the Phone). I’ve been using the Moment app recently too, here’s my past week of usage. (I think it might count phone calls as usage.)
Since the Title II ruling from the FCC there’s been a lot of partisan rhetoric about the government taking over the internet, even in the comments of this very blog. I just came across Brad Feld’s post, Some Final Thoughts on the FCC and Title II Ahead of Tomorrow’s Vote on Net Neutrality and he does an awesome job breaking down and addressing each of the misconceptions.
Chartbeat
Chartbeat is a cool real-time analytics service I’ve been enjoying using for a while, especially from the iPhone app. As just announced yesterday on AllThingsD, I’ve joined their latest round of funding and I’m looking forward to see what they do next.
So This Climate Walks Into a Bar
Great talk introducing Grist.org and the state of the environment, including a number of things to be excited about.
Around the Garden
Around the garden at my parents’ house.
Consistent Hashing
Programmer’s Toolbox Part 3: Consistent Hashing. It would be interesting if something like this could be folded into the currently random slave server selection for HyperDB.
Accenture GCF208 Day 1
Accenture Global Convergence Forum 2008 in Miami, Florida. Conference; Devitos; Delano hotel.
Mark on DRM
Whuffie Interview
I was on The Whuffie Factor, an interview with Tara Hunt in anticipation of her new book. I’ve already pre-ordered Tara’s book, you can do so too on Amazon.
Speaking at Start Conference
Jeffrey Veen and Bryan Mason are putting together a very interesting conference called Start. It’s only $200 and the morning format is short-form interviews with interesting people, and somehow I slipped in there. Mark the date — August 7, 2008.
Social Networking Sanity Check
Social Networking Gets a Sanity Check, from GigaOM.
Visiting Houston
Visiting home in Houston.
WordPress / Yahoo Brickhouse Meetup
If you’re in the San Francisco area join us at the Yahoo! Brickhouse for a WordPress meetup this Wednesday. This’ll actually be my first time at the Brickhouse, but I hear they have some mean Wii players.
Sphere Wrap Party
Sphere celebration party at Phil’s house.
The Atlantic has a set of 45 pictures that are both beautiful and shocking to commemorate Earth Day.