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All those rumors you’ve been hearing about me are true. I DID start compiling a three letter word dictionary whose words are defined using only three letter words. (And oh yeah I married the best roller girl in the world and moved to Philly, Lansdowne to be precise.)
This collaborative dictionary revels in its self […]

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Build Community First, Monetize Last

Friday, March 9th, 2007

A video of a Stanford presentation by two of the founders of Threadless got me challenging my assumptions for community marketing this morning.
Based on watching this I recognize that what I wrote about here: The Community Correspondent: a Guide to Creating Link Worthy Content Through Forum Participation is more about skimming off the top of […]

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It’s neat to see this stuff in action… As a buddy and I planned a weekend meeting in gchat Google listened along and shot an ad at me:

Smart or spooky? Both. And quite potentially powerful considering the amount of usage that chat has.
Update:
It probably didn’t hurt that in my email I had a meeting […]

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Reading a Book as Playing Musical Composition

Monday, November 20th, 2006

I read boing boing everyday. It’s kind of like medicine. I found this quote from author Zadie Smith wonderful and I’m posting it here instead of copying it into my journal by hand like I would have in college:
But the problem with readers, the idea we’re given of reading is that the model of a […]

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