I have had a new round of comment spammers who are just hammering jaxn.org. I have resorted to dropping packets again. I first started doing this in 2005 (read how here).
So if all of the sudden you can’t see my blog then let me know I got a little too ambitious with the packet dropping. [...]
Let me share a little about my political background. During the 2000 presidential primaries I had a front row seat for the action. I was living in New Hampshire working on youth voting issues and saw every major candidate (and some minor ones too). I was surrounded by optimistic and idealistic young people. We wanted [...]
There is a great opinion piece in the current issue of Conde Nast Portfolio about “why companies should forget social responsibility — and why we should let them”. I will look for a link later when I get online (found it). It is a great article and you should read it if you are interested [...]
I like Rex Hammock’s term “Mediacasting”; he is good at the semantics of “conversational media” (another term I got from Rex).
So, we are casting out communications on all these different channels: web sites, RSS feeds, Twitter, social networks (Facebook, Plaxo Pulse), email, etc. The goal is to make sure everyone is able to get the [...]
Recently in Nashville there was one of those major security breeches that happened as the result of too much information being on a portable computer drive. In this specific case a laptop was stolen from the Nashville Election Commission with what I think was the entire voter registration database (social security numbers and all). There [...]
Some time back I added “the philosophy of technology” as a tagline to jaxn.org (though I have turned it on and off a few times). I am not exactly sure where the phrase came from, but I have a feeling it was something someone said to me. Still, it has a very specific meaning to [...]
I had lunch with a couple of the guys from StudioNow today. It got me thinking again about the value add good editors can provide in today’s world where we are all creating (blogs, pictures, videos, etc).
For those that don’t know, StudioNow is a local (Nashville) company that can take a bunch of raw creative [...]
You know that saying that goes “when you only have a hammer, everything looks like a nail”? It is usually an easy way to talk about using the right tool for the job. However, the converse is not always true; sometimes the right tool for a job is a hammer even though you are not [...]
I tend to make a fair number of predictions here. Oddly, this year, I don’t feel like predicting anything; I am just too excited to see what happens to go trying to spoil the surprise now. Here is some of what excites me most:
Plato’s Closet in Murfreesboro (technically opened to buy for 3 days in [...]
My in-laws gave me a sweet new iPod Nano. I had been wanting one for a while because my iPod photo feels too big and bulky, and I am willing to trade off disk space for pocket space.
Sabrina and I gave Carter and Zavier iPod shuffles. They love them and I love that I am [...]
