Listics

I have an (old) new blog called listics.  Listics is one of those good intentions waiting for my attention.  Today I have an acre of correspondence to complete, and an orchard of heat stressed trees to water.  The Arbor Day Foundation sent a questionnaire about our hazlenut project that pressed the guilt button there.  I don’t think they’re dead yet, but you know global warming.  The Bush family and friends are doing their best to kill them and the other trees we planted this year.  But I digress…

I want listics (aka Sandhill 3.0) to be a professional webpub effort.  I will contribute the vision and the voice, but I will need to borrow (steal) heavily from others to create a design and a format with legs.

Who should I rip off?  I was thinking of Dan Gillmor. 

Blog World Expo needs the Dot Blog TLD in order to support the BlogWorld foundation.  Who can help?

David Isenberg notes on his site, isen.com that he will be a Berkman Fellow starting this month.  Isenberg is the author of the 1997 paper "The Rise of the Stupid Network" and co-author of "The Paradox of the Best Network" with fellow Berkman Fellow, David Weinberger.  Congratulations David!

…and yes, "fellow Berkman Fellow" is a fun phrase to write.

Go here and scroll down for some pictures of lovey pups.

Consider it suck-up behavior.

The personal nature of blogging communication bubbles up all steamy.  Robert Scoble, for whom blogging is very much part of the day job, has named his comments section "Mudpit."  Much pig-wrestling has long gone on there, but Scoble must have been having a bad day to re-name the comments.  Why not "Duck pond" and let that mudpit stuff just roll off his back?

Some huge percentage of the comments at Scoble’s is recursive self-referential tripe, the commenters trying to get the blogger’s goat.  But from time to time a thread of really interesting conversation opens up there.  Scoble must have been having a bad day. 

Go over to Rageboy’s "Mystic Bourgeoisie."  Follow the link to Steven Weinberg’s essay.  Learn more than you need to know about the origin of the universe and what-not.  Then, express your gratitude for enlightenment by clicking on his paypal link and giving generously.

What we’re looking for here is a broad base of community support.  Please stop him before he spams again!

[Update…  too late!  I had barely hit the "save" button when the link to the Weinberg essay and RB’s critical assessment of Ralfualdo was buried in a better bed of butter as one might say.  The post was pushed down by this one, which I will now read and pay for the privilege.  You should too.  really.  The world will be a better place and the the whole softcore witchy thing is good for an aging prostate.]

This is it, the birthday of Millie Garfield!  Happy Birthday Millie!

Go on over to "My Mom’s Blog" and wish her a happy 80th.  (Whose mom?   Vlogger Steve Garfield’s mom!)  A few days she said,

In a few days I am going to be eighty years old! I just typed that and
I can not believe it, maybe I feel it sometimes but I sure don’t think
or act it.

One of the reasons I feel so good is that I have
something that I am involved in, excited about and look forward to. You
guessed it, it’s blogging.

I
started blogging about two years ago and the more I post, the more I
enjoy it. Over time I have made many friends from the United States and
countries from all over the world. I am amazed how blogging has opened
my mind and enriched my life.