magpie's shiny things

Odd to me that I should dis­cov­er the ClueTrain Manifesto (I pre­fer to think of myself as fash­ion­ably late to the par­ty) in the same week that the lat­est of Wired mag­a­zine final­ly makes it to the top of the ought­ta read pile with it’s arti­cles about on-line open­ness. Including Clive Thompson’s The See-Through CEO with it’s painful­ly time­ly con­clud­ing para­graph. (I won’t spoil it for you.) Continue read­ing “Wired Magazine, the Cluetrain, and Synchronicity”

This a.m. I read “save time by dash­ing your search­es” on Micro Persuasion. I tried it using reputation-management ver­sus the unquot­ed, un-dashed ver­sion (to wit: rep­u­ta­tion man­age­ment)

Whoa, this has got to be a record for least amount of time from I read this post to I can’t believe I lived with­out it! Continue read­ing “5 min­utes from read-it to love-it”

I’m not a design­er and right now our home­page is ugly. Really ugly.

One of my prob­lems is that I haven’t been able to decide on a col­or scheme. Until, that is, I was stand­ing in the bath­room brush­ing my teeth this morn­ing and look­ing at the paint col­or sam­ples that I have taped to the wall. (Trying to decide what col­or to paint the bath is a whole ‘nother prob­lem…) Continue read­ing “Color Help for the Design Impaired”

I cruised past this post about build­ing entry points to your apps from HorseCowPig this week­end. Sent it off to some of my favorite uber-geeks. Reaction — Oh cool, that’s what we’ve been try­ing to fig­ure out how to say. Read and think.

How many of the “social net­work­ing” tools are actu­al­ly just high tech tools for voyeurism. Have we become a nation (world/web) of peep­ing toms? Is voyeurism now a per­ver­sion that can be prac­ticed in many realms. We’re not just watch­ing one anoth­er have sex, we’re watch­ing one anoth­er dri­ve to work, and eat lunch, and get ready to club, and — Oooh shiny, a list of the odd things that we can watch peo­ple do on twitter.

 

Voyeurism and fan­ta­sy con­joined. We can’t actu­al­ly watch the girl put on her false eye­lash­es but we can imag­ine her.

 

There’s some­thing tru­ly strange going on here.