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.

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

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.

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.

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.

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

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.

Art  Books  Business  Design  Favorites  Food  Games  Links  Meta  Movies  Music  People  Pictures  Products  Quotes  Science  Software  Sports  Television  Trash 

(un)filtered is a product of michael sippey. there are older things at sippey.typepad.com/filtered, with archives back to 2003, and even older things at stating the obvious.