Saturday Morning Shards #5

Del.icio.us is a bookmark system by which you can bookmark sites/articles/web floatsam you’re interested in viewing later. Thing is, it’s social software so others may view your list of bookmarks as well. You can also get rss feeds of other people’s bookmark logs or of the most popular bookmarks in a given day. It’s like Friendster for bookmarks. The possibilities are endless.

My current list of bookmarks, much of which will be used for creating Saturday Morning Shards (discovered thanks to Jeff Veen).

After watching The Mayor of Sunset Strip earlier this week, I was reminded of Dramarama’s early 90s modern rock hit “Anything, Anything” which coincidentally, I feel in love with the summer I worked in L.A. not to far from the Sunset Strip. Have a listen. It’s great.

Pat Holt, a smart cookie who used to edit the San Francisco Chronicle’s Book Review page, discusses the 10 Most Common Writers Mistakes. I’ve committed at least seven of these since Tuesday.

Who would be president if the whole world got to vote (via Eastern Villager)?

The trailer for Paper Clips, a new documentary coming out in December, had me sobbing. I’ve watched it five times and can’t wait for this movie to come out. I’ll be first in line.

I’ve been hearing the phrase “Web 2.0” and have no ideas what it means. Further searching unearthed a baffingly expensive Web 2.0 Conference right here in San Francisco in a couple of weeks. Web 2.0 evidently refers to the idea of the “web as platform”, a space for business to develop ancillary services to their existing products and the entry point for users and customers to interface with those services.

It would appear that there is absolutely no place at the conference for the average interested party. Perhaps I can conn my way into a press pass.

Blinkx is some software application that has leased an expensive billboard overlooking the 101 freeway here in San Franciso. I’d love to tell you more about it but Blinkx is currently not available for Macintosh. Which is just stupid.

Jersey Girl is probably the sweetest and most autobiographical movie Kevin Smith will ever make. It’s also the first movie I’ve seen in years that argues that being a parent is a success all its own. It reminded me a lot of Tim Burton’s Big Fish another movie about men realizing their age and maturity, another movie a filmmaker could only have made after reaching a certain life plataeu.

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