Here’s my contribution to OneWebDay. I’m currently standing in Battery Park, NYC watching Craig Newmark speak on the “heavy lifting” on the web. His talk is over now. He was brief, but engaging.
Why are you all thankful for the web? Or are you?

This post by Om depressed me a bit. Key quote:
They (which includes everyone from Microsoft to Real to SanDisk) used to mock Apple for having a walled garden approach to digital music. iPod + iTunes + Apple DRM = Money. Well now they are building their own walls - Microsoft has Zune.
This smells like the [...]

I decided to implement my blogroll using Grazr. If you don’t know what Grazr is, it’s essentially a feed reader widget that can be embedded in HTML. Just play with my blogroll for 5 minutes, and you’ll understand what Grazr can do.
Most of my readers are reading via RSS, so this change means nothing to [...]

A couple of sources of celebrated YouTube’s recent announcement that they have technology which can recognize copyrighted music in videos when a video is uploaded. YouTube’s using this technology to work with Warner music in order to license the content as it’s uploaded (instead of being forced to remove the content under DMCA compliance). [...]

Though Daily Candy is probably best described as an “email newsletter:” by Wikipedia’s definition of a blog: Daily Candy is a blog. The WSJ is calling Daily Candy something else: a $130 million dollar company (linking to Gawker for this fact because WSJ requires subscriptions).
I was intrigued at the noise this valuation made in [...]

I set up live blogging via email on my worpress install last night, so this post is a test. I hope it doesn’t look like a complete mess.
I’m at the Yankees/Sox game. Sox are leading the Yankees 3-2 in the 7th, which puts a smile on my face. Ortiz has been booed endlessly. [...]

My obsession with Elliott Smith is borderline unhealthy. Perfect rainy day music (which makes it particularly appropriate for today in NYC).  Elliott songs carry an improbable dichotomy of being soft, warm, and sweet sounding, with lyrics that feel barren, cold, and dejected.  The two opposites play well together.  On top of it all, Elliott’s acoustic [...]

Does anyone actively participate in a bliki? Here’s Wikipedia’s definition of a bliki, so I can skip the basics and get straight to the point. I don’t participate in a bliki, and I don’t know anyone who does. Maybe digg is close to a bliki… but it doesn’t allow you to write [...]

… to root for the Red Sox.  If I acquire any notable war wounds I’ll post them in a flickr gallery.