2008

May

By now, you may have seen the video of a younger and very angry Bill O’Reilly (original here)....

California Overturns Gay Marriage Ban

Twin Cinema - The New Pornographers The song is from the album with the same name. So much fantastic...

Video comments

Ever since I switched to Tumblr, I’ve been using the Disqus commenting service. Actually I had...

Stop Breaking Down - The Rolling Stones I’m making a new playlist this morning. This is the...

I’m going to the Radiohead concert on August 13th at...

Gotta focus on the small group to get...

A few weeks ago a bunch of us were talking about web services and social communities. My friend John...

Expecting to Fly - Emily Haines This is one soulful cover. Original by Neil Young. Emily...

Why I like company blogs

These days more and more companies have blogs. There are a lot of good ones out there. They are a...

reblogged via daryn: The Kooks - Young Folks Cover of Peter, Bjorn, and John. Whenever I hear...

“The Wired nation knows all about tumblelogs, text-lite...”
— Joseph Arthur’s...

My Top 5 Artists (Week Ending 2008-5-11)

It’s beautiful today. We played in the park while waiting for lauren to finish her...

Mother - Pink Floyd a song for today.

Google knows what day it is. Happy Mother’s Day to all...

There are several twitter search engines right now. Summize...

OpenCoffee Cambridge is moving

We decided to move OpenCoffee Cambridge to Wednesdays instead of Thursdays. The problem is that they...

“The carriers regularly adjust spam filters to block...”
— Spam Moves to Cellphones and...

Waiter At the Station - Ben Kweller Ben’s upcoming album is called “Changing...

via marco: peetypassion: MacBook - thin enough. So funny.

Happy birthday Dennis

When Obama wins microsite

I want a 1080p television with this design. That would be...

TV next

Chris Albrecht at NewTeeVee is so over new set top boxes. Today he makes the point that there are...

Baba O’Riley - The Who It’s friday people. time to rock. turn it way up.

Wanna see a beautiful tumblr theme

I’m lusting over david’s new theme on his tumblelog. stunning.

reblogged via david: by path77 Me too.

First Day of My Life - Bright Eyesan amazing song from an amazing record - I’m Wide Awake...

Congrats to Eqal and Next New Networks

Yesterday the winners of the 11th annual Webby Awards were announced. It was very cool to see two...

Orbs at Cambridge innovation center

Simple Twist of Fate - Jeff Tweedy When the weather gets warmer I end up playing more and more songs...

iPhone is the most popular cameraphone on Flickr. Not...

Want a beautiful & unique Tumblr theme?

There are lots of beautiful Tumblr themes out there. Many are available when you sign up for...

Breakfast in America - Gomez This is a really fun cover. Original by Supertramp. I’m not that...

Real time social gaming

One of the main reasons why we like DDR, Rock Band and Wii Sports in our house is because we can...

Heading home. Still light out at 7pm.

reblogged via fascinated: Nine Inch Nails released a new...

I Will Surive - Cake This song goes out to my friends on the Twitter Lyric of Day group. They asked...

My Top 5 Artists (Week Ending 2008-5-4)

“Even though the summer gas tax holiday is pure hokum, it...”
— Robert Reich’s Blog:...

Big market share does not equal...

I wrote this post the day MSFT announced their offer to by Yahoo. It seems like a million years ago...

Talking Bird - Death Cab for Cutie Another song from their upcoming new album - Narrow Stairs. I...

Watching & Learning (via bsabet) I...

The real reason I wish I was at Maker Faire this year. Bug Labs is there. (disclosure: Bug Labs is a...

Things you won’t see anywhere else than Maker Fare...

I’m Amazed - My Morning Jacket I haven’t listened to MMJ in much too long. This song is...

I forgot how cool the iTunes visualizer is. I was on a call and hit cmd+T thinking I was in...

Naive - Lily Allen Wonderful cover. Original by The Kooks. Full of soul thats for sure.

I've never openly criticized another VC...

I have been a vocal Al Gore supporter for a long time. I voted for him when he ran for President...

iPhone apps vs battery life

If you know me or check out this site from time to time, you know how much I’m looking forward...

Lovesick - The White Stripes This is one band that just continues to surprise me. There are songs by...

Apr

More thinking about Obama and his...

It seems like the voters are falling into a few camps after this weeks non stop coverage of Rev...

Just got tickets for the playoff game tonite for me &...

Smoking fast

We are moving next month to a new house. It turns out that they have FIOS internet in the new place....

Need You Tonight - Of Montreal I discovered Of Montreal last year and I’ve been playing them a...

Let a thousand social music sites bloom

When I was in high school and college I couldn’t get enough of music. I had cassettes...

The Lovers - Arctic Monkeys Just found out they are working on their third album. That is fantastic...

“Third, even within the tech world itself I’ve seen Twitter...”
— Much atwitter about...

Good one Lauren

me: hey, do you want me to show you how to start a blog ?
lauren: no, do you want me to show you how to read a book (big smile)

Migrating from Hotmail to Gmail

My wife has been using Hotmail for over 10 years. I’ve been trying to convince her to switch...

“All these means of self expression like blogging, tumbling...”
— This and That @ Tumblr - To...

Farmhouse - Phish I’m still in my phish world this morning. This band brings back a lot of...

reblogged via soxiam: Digg Dubb: Groove Is In The Heart on Vimeo (via Vimeo) The team at Digg is...

My Top 5 Artists (Week Ending 2008-4-27)

Catching the girls reading together.

New Apple store coming to downtown Boston. This is the first...

iPhone vs Blackberry Battle - part II

Last year when Apple shipped their first gen iPhone, everyone naturally compared it to the...

Heavy Things - Phish I’ve been in a phish mood all weekend. I thought it would be great to...

“Keep away from people who try to belittle your ambitions....”
— Mark Twain (via...

How We Use Twitter for Journalism -...

Fake Plastic Trees - Radiohead This is an older Radiohead song and one of my favorites. Its from...

Brad is right. This is a choice

When I wrote this post a few weeks back I was in a tough place. I don’t think I was feeling...

Tessellate - Tokyo Police Club This band is all the rage on the Hype Machine these days. Really...

Cool Bug apps are coming along. Love it.

“Apple CFO Peter Oppenheimer revealed that the company has...”
— Macworld | Apple: 200,000...

The future of mobile ads

Here’s the thing. I never understood mobile ads. text ads or banners. I know they can be...

My partner Todd's movie

My partner Todd Dagres co-produced “Transsiberian” starring Ben Kingsley, Emily Mortimer...

Open Your Eyes - Snow Patrol I’ve always loved this band but I haven’t listened to them...

“He and I both agreed that they’ll be a better company for...”
— - west coast vc friend of mine...

Talking to a room of mba students at Dartmouth about...

“Kerris was the first person to show Keith Richards an...”
— The Set List: Rolling Stones...

Heroes - David Bowie (acoustic) The other day I posted a Bowie cover. But there is nothing like the...

Sony buys a UGC pioneer

I’ll never forget the first time I ripped a CD onto a Mac. It was in 1996. I encoded it with...

reblogged via rach: The Police - So Lonely What a total jam. I didn’t have any...

“And these .. aspects of the old politics I’ve seen growing...”
— Heilemann: Robert Reich to...

Tumblr users get some love at...

My blog has never been super popular or on the top of any leaderboard. But I’m proud of this...

Dancing with Lauren while waiting for the runners at the...

The Google Brand

Apparently Google’s brand is considered the most valuable global brand. I wonder if Google...

“Morale is tremendously important to a startup—so important...”
— Be Good - Paul Graham: Essays...

Let’s Dance - M.Ward I think I could listen to M.Ward sing all day. Some die hard Bowie fans...

Amazon.com: Strong Fathers, Strong Daughters:...

James at Walden Pond this afternoon (via bsabet)

Historic words from Thoreau (via bsabet) ...

My Top 5 Artists (Week Ending 2008-4-20)

Ellie playing nintendo this morning.

Short Skirt Long Jacket - Cake Some of my friends are big Cake fans. I’m not one of them but...

Dealing with the Inbox

Email is a gift and a curse as we all know by now. Our inbox can control us if we aren’t...

Sugaree - Grateful Dead Great song from a long time ago. And it’s just right for this Saturday...

This is so good. Obama as Rocky. Check it out. (via azspot)

My friend Stu at work

Wonderwall - Cat Power There is something wonderful about this version. Original by Oasis. But I...

jakeandamir: Who’s the Boss? David showed me this today. So funny.

Announcing our investment in Eqal

Even before we started Spark, my partner Todd was always talking about a world where fictional,...

David (founder of Tumblr), Emil (co-founder of Next New...

Fortunate Son - Death Cab for Cutie with Sean Nelson This is a rocking cover from the album...

Shawn’s response to my motorcycle lust. He has a good...

Herb reading about Herb. Love it.

When james goes off to college I’m buying one of...

My favorite 4 words

I love when I meet with entrepreneurs and during the meeting someone says, “Imagine if you...

Armagideon Time - The Clash This is a fantastic song that was on the b-side to London Calling and...

“When Egyptian police scooped up UC Berkeley graduate...”
— U.C. Berkeley student’s...

Nice view of the Sierras on the flight west today.

Pride - Soweto Gospel Choir I’m loving this song and I just ordered the album. It was inspired...

My Top 5 Artists (Week Ending 2008-4-13)

A kiss from james (via bsabet) Very few things are better...

Soul Singer In A Session Band - Bright Eyes This is from the album Cassadaga. It’s a great...

The problem with Obama

The problem with Obama is that he’s human.We have been living so long with leaders &...

Who needs friends?

Robert Scoble wrote an excellent post last night discussing and comparing the friends factor on...

At fenway with my nephews

reblogged via david: Anyone using Firefox/Safari can try a...

Rebel Rebel - Tegan and Sara There is nothing like the original version by David Bowie but this...

Creep - Radiohead An acoustic version of an amazing song. Tickets for the upcoming boston show go on...

A word about the google/DoubleClick non...

Valleywag reported today that google required DoubleClick employees to sign a non compete. And then...

I just noticed that the number of reblogs is clearly...

jakoblodwick: If you are a Tumblrist you will appreciate...