Caught this on Buzz this morning from comedian Brandon Mendelson:

I saw this post by Owen Thomas over at Venturebeat: “Open-standards advocate Monica Keller leaves Facebook, joins Socialcast.” Facebook’s efforts to raise its reputation for technological openness suffered a blow with the departure of Monica Keller, a well-regarded program manager for open Web standards whose career at the company proved short-lived. It’s just one of very many recent departures...

As someone who’s very into video as a creative and informative format, I abhor the ridiculously low-rent look and feel of the xtranormal style “if you can type, you can make a video” videos. In reality, though, some of them are just downright undeniably hilarious. This video from John Troyer (social media honcho at VMWare) is a perfect example of that hilarity. Thanks to Stu for sending...

I rightclicked on a YouTube video today, and I saw a new option: Speedtest This. Never saw this before.

Hey guys. My buddy Sean has been preaching ambivalence about the upcoming movie “Scott Pilgrim vs. The World.” Unlike Sean, I really don’t care if Michael Cera is a one note actor, I dig his style.  So I’ll probably like the movie any way it turns out. I found the tracklist to the movie soundtrack today (thanks @nicefishfilms!). Decided to put it into a Spotify mix for ya. I’m busy...

I wish I could say this was due to popular demand, but you and I both know that’s not true. Something I must have said has driven off every last reader of this website – surprising, yes, I know. At any rate, I’m reprising this idea once more to see if anyone cares a bit about my attempt to share out Spotify playlists. I figured that if I gave the old tried and true “linkbait” method a shot,...

I found a new time-suck this morning: MultiUser Sketchpad. Hat tip to: Jesse Baer, and Filip. The principle is pretty simple… It’s a webapp where multiple people can draw on the same pad.  In practice, there are less people drawing penises on everything than you might expect, but people still show a fair degree of carelessness about what you are working on. For instance, I was drawing one...

I know this is a longshot, particularly since Spotify is one of those “private clubs with memberships available,” but I wanted to poll the three or four of you who regularly read my personal blog. I use Spotify almost daily. I’ve started creating playlists of stuff I like, and one of the neat features is the ability to share out playlists to others. It’s kind of a neat way to curate music....

I finally got around to watching Ondi Timor’s “We Live in Public,” a documentary that was actually released to high critical acclaim back in 2009.  I met the director of the film, Ondi Timor, in March of 2009, very briefly.  Somewhere on the internet, there’s a brief record of our meeting. Meltdown on the Set We met on the set of #theCube’s precursor, the “SAM, Live from the...

I popped open Tweetdeck this morning just in time to see a couple dozen screenfuls of this on my Twitter column:   Question. Is anyone working at all today?