Archive for March, 2006
The Onion at Yahoo: Peter Koechley
Today, I brought in Peter Koechley, managing editor of The Onion, for the weekly speaker series I run at Yahoo!
I love the Onion, and Peter’s talk did not disappoint. He took us through some of his favorite Onion headlines of the past, read some of the headlines he had written that didn’t ultimately make [...]
Blown away (again) by Hack Day
I organized the second Hack Day at Yahoo! this past Friday, and it was extraordinary (check out some of the Flickr photos tagged “hackday”). Rather than write a long post with my own analysis, I’ll leave it up to some of the participants (it was extraordinary because of them anyway — I just try [...]
Buck Owens: 1929-2006
We lost an American treasure this morning — Buck Owens has died and I am really sad about it.
When I was a kid growing up in North Carolina, I watched Buck Owens on Hee Haw every Saturday night with my family like just about everyone I knew (seriously), but I didn’t really know much about [...]
Excited about Hack Day
We’re doing another Hack Day at Yahoo! tomorrow — can’t wait. I have no idea what’s going to happen. And that’s the best part (and absolutely intentional). We leave lots of room for emergence.
See Jeremy and my post for info on the last one, plus some Flickr photos. Expect more after [...]
Ruby vs. the enterprise
The whole “what does it mean to be ‘enterprise’?” brouhaha (see posts from Dare Obasanjo and David Heinemeier Hansson) over James McGovern’s post “More Thoughts on Ruby and Why it isn’t enterprise ready!” grabbed my attention for a few reasons:
I used to write for an enterprise IT magazine, InfoWorld
I was also CTO and had real [...]
Reading 2.0 and microformats
Yesterday, I participated in the Reading 2.0 summit (organized by Peter Brantley of the California Digital Library), a small gathering in San Francisco about the future of digitized material, with the digitization of books being a primary topic. Tim O’Reilly did an amazing job of taking notes.
As Tim notes, I gave a [...]
See you in Austin for SXSW
Whew — it’s been a crazy week. I was at eTech earlier this week (a little hectic with the Checkmates prototype rolling out) and didn’t get to hang out and chat with people quite as much as I wanted. Then, in an unfortunate calendaring incident, I had rebooked a few days in [...]
Checkmates: a mobile friend finder prototype for eTech
I’ve been working on a project recently that is really the convergence of everything I love about my work these days: promoting grassroots innovation at Yahoo! through events like Hack Day, building cool stuff, and trying to glimpse the future through prototypes that reach a little bit. (Aside: I just [...]