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liveblogging reading some of the liveblogging of the oscars

Last night, 10:30 pm:  Finished watching our Tivo'd version of the Oscars.  Ba-boop'd our way through the montages.  Did email during some of the songs.  Didn't liveblog.

Last night, 10:40 pm:  Check in on Vox neighborhood.  Hey, Anil liveblogged the Oscars!  Skim skim skim, scroll scroll, scroll.  Here's a funny line: "Poor Nicole Kidman, ruined herself. Used to be fetching. I'm just saying. I do like her brave choice to wear a chandelier."

Last night, 11:30 pm:  Oh, hey, looks like Jason liveblogged not watching the Oscars. How clever.  "My liveblogging outfit this evening: jeans by Banana Republic, long sleeve tshirt by American Apparel, socks by Wal-Mart, boxer shorts by Muji." (Ahem, that sounds like a series of Facebook is statements to me.)

This morning, 11:00 am:  Wow, David liveblogged 'em, too.  "I think Owen Wilson should take over Heath Ledger's career."  Yes!  Excellent idea. Couldn't have said it better myself.

This morning, 11:25 am: OK, that's enough.

short attention span theater

Note to self:  you have a very short attention span, as measured in the meantime between overhauls of your blog's look and feel.  Short story:  I fell in love with one of the new themes that Walt had put together for TypePad, and just had to apply it here.  Oh, and I'm sure there will be all sorts of Google weirdness with the flipping back and forth with the content on /unfiltered and now here back on /filtered, but we'll suffer through. I know everyone liked the new look (so did I!) but there's something comfortable and familiar about two-column right.

Anyway, we're back here for now.

here's an old graph

From Stating the Obvious, February 1997: The Network Diagram.  "I've abandoned link list. In its place I've drawn this simple diagram, a roadmap to the self-absorbed world of Internet publishing. Six degrees of separation? Ha. Try two at the most."

Extra credit for identifying the publications that still exist.

cringe worthy

I got Scobleized.  And my GOD I hate myself on video.

circling the bay

Events galore. Last night was at the Creative Commons mixer in SF, where we demo'd a new CC licensing widget we've built for TypePad (everything.typepad.com blog post coming soon) and presented to CC a check for $15,000+ that was raised by the LiveJournal community as part of this summer's permanent account sale. Tonight I'll be at the Silicon Valley American Marketing Association's event on Marketing 2.0 in Cupertino, on a panel talking about...wait for it...blogging! That makes it a "circle the Bay" day (Berkeley --> SF --> South Bay --> Berkeley), which means at some point there will be prog rock on in the car.

but i don't mean you. i love you.

From the department of self-promotion, Buddy List Zero: action-based instant messaging.

Want to really Get Things Done? Then turn off IM. These are tips on the skills, tools and attitude needed to empty your buddy list -- and then keep it that way.

all meta, all the time

Wednesdays are hack days at Six Apart.  My limited skills led to this limited (but fun!) hack:  activity on (un)filtered.  TypePad template tags + JavaScript = fun.

and a little bird said tweet tweet

Whoa, I think I've discovered an undocumented Valleywag API.

creative destruction and feed slamming

The blog is dead, long live the blog.  I've been mucking about with a new-ish form at a new-ish URL, and it's time to flip the bit.  The switch from /filtered to /unfiltered is an attempt to return to what I used to do at theobvious.com long long ago with "filtered for purity": offer reasonably context-free nuggets of linky goodness.