Category: Miscellany

  • I'll be the guy with the sunglasses and the straw hat

    I thought this Anil Dash weblog entry looked familiar: I’m off to SF for O’Reilly Emerging Technology Conference on Tuesday. I’m going against the grain this year by taking my laptop along, “blogging” in “realtime”, and taking digital photos of people. If there’s a box, I am out of it. If you’re attending as well,…

  • The jpeg war

    Levi Asher wrote this action poem, “What’s Bothering Me,” about our just-concluded (?) media war. Hey, and I just noticed that his novel, Summer of the Mets is finally out.

  • Towards participatory online democracy

    Paul Ford thinks the Senate should have an RSS feed, and the House, and the Supreme Court, and the White House. I think he’s right, and I like his approach to raising the subject.

  • Earl King, R.I.P.

    Speaking of New Orleans, I was sad to read this obituary for the legendary Earl King. (Times userid: mediajunkie, password: mediajunkie) Most famous outside of N.O. (and best compensated for) Jimi Hendrix’s cover (as “Let the Good Times Roll”) of his “Come On,” and for the Mardi Gras standard “Big Chief,” especially the Professor Longhair…

  • Synchronicity, synecdoche, Schenectady. So I

    Synchronicity, synecdoche, Schenectady. So I make this new category for my last entry (“Television”) and what should come up in my iTunes rotation? now playing: “Little Johnny Jewel” by Television [The Blow Up]

  • Synchronicity, synecdoche, Schenectady

    So I make this new category in my X-POLLEN blog for an entry (“television”) and what should come up in my iTunes rotation? now playing: "Little Johnny Jewel" by Television [The Blow Up]