whew!

had a busy week with the PSFK.com conference, and tonight I've got a kick-off meeting for my first taprootfoundation.org project, and, thanks to kamau, I'm a judge in a pork-off.

anyway, this weekend there's a blockparty at 111 Minna in SF:
http://www.goodmagazine.com/events/sf08

good magazine is actually great, and I got to meet the editor this week. looks like a fun SF summertime event.
unless, there's something cooler.
right.

ever wanted to keep a diary of what you eat???

this is a really elegant and fun site FoodFeed.
it is a great example of a simple mash-up using twitter. it takes a minute to get your head around what he's up to and how it works, but i'm impressed. it's achingly simple and well thought out. you can see my foodfeed here. nothing much yet, but it looks like fun.
and it might just be particularly fun for us friendly foodie types.
Thanks to SundayNiteDinner for the turn-on.

and if you're interested in tech stuff, and reallllllly elegant design, check out the guy that created foodfeed: http://www.vlourenco.com/

PSFK Creativity Conference in SF

I'm really honored to be participating in a panel discussion about "What makes the Bay Area tick?" at this year's PSFK Conference.
PSFK is an international trends and innovation team, and they have a great blog full of great ideas.

facebook loves me

i used to get birthday and christmas cards from marlboro, but now:

we didn't have the technology...

"we did stupid things, but not like that."

Passing notes in study hall or getting your best friend to ask a boy if he likes you or, you know, likes you, is so last century. Nowadays, teenagers are snapping naked pictures of themselves on their cell phones and sending them to their boyfriends and girlfriends.

Many of these pictures are falling into the wrong hands - or worse, everyone's hands, via the Internet - and leading to criminal charges.

Some parents are aghast.

"I just don't understand why kids would do a stupid thing like that," said Rochelle Hoins of Castle Rock, Colo., where 18 students in her twin sons' middle school sent around nude pictures of themselves last year. "We did dumb things when we were kids, but not like that," said Hoins, whose sons were not involved.

read the rest...

life.time.line

Just ran across this little web app, and i really like it. would be a great tool for senior citizens or collaborations between senior citizens and writing students.
http://www.circavie.com/
I started a similar thing using freemind to make a scaffold/timeline of my life for writing, but here's what circavie looks like embedded...

Pretty cool. especially for younger users that have been digitally documenting their lives for years.

My heroes have always been...